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City Council approved 33 million dollars to build a new, 'Virgil I. Grissom Library,' on Warwick Boulevard after decades of use.

City Council on Tuesday voted to appropriate bond money for the design and construction of a new Virgil L. Grissom Library, to be built at the Sherwood Shopping Center on Warwick Boulevard.

The task force will research the decisions that led to the placement of the university in the Shoe Lane neighborhood, which was, at the time, home to a small, thriving Black community.

In 1961, an all-white Newport News City Council voted to dismantle the Shoe Lane neighborhood to make way for what became Christopher Newport University.

Traveling for official city business is often part of a city council member’s job, allowing an elected official to gain insight on how peers in other cities and countries are handling a variety of issues. But with travel come expenses that are often paid for by taxpayers. The expenses cities cover on council members’ behalf make up only a small fraction of overall budgets, but without ...