Hampton Mayor Molly Ward declared Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 as Wear Green in Support of Fort Monroe as a National Park Day.

With President Obama visiting Hampton and national press following closely behind, Mayor Molly Ward proclaimed her support for transforming Fort Monroe into a National Park.  Creating a National Park Service Unit at Fort Monroe is a bipartisan intitiative supported by City Council, state officials and all of the area’s delegation to Congress.

Fort Monroe’s history needs to be preserved and shared, said Ward.

The City of Newport News is seeking to build the Triton Court Pump Station. This endeavor will cost $3 million and will more than likely be located off Thimble Shoals Boulevard, which is near City Center.

This pump station could also be the solution that would allow the City Center and the Oyster Point office district to expand.

Constructing this sanitary pump station would improve the sewage flow through the system.

 "We're approaching capacity," said John Kaoudis, assistant director of engineering.

By Jon Cawley, jcawley@dailypress.com | 757-247-4635

4:29 p.m. EDT, July 12, 2011

Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles has resurrected a mobile customer service center program that was eliminated by budget cuts in 2002.

The new service "DMV 2 Go" started in February and uses a 20-year-old recreational vehicle (with 11,000 miles) that was acquired through the state health department. The mobile customer service unit is a full-service DMV office that is capable of conducting transactions from renewing a driver's license to taking the road test, said Melanie Stokes, a DMV spokeswoman.

The DMV's mobile unit — or "Mo" as it is referred — will make its inaugural trip to the Peninsula on Aug.