About Us

To readers: About our new online look

Mark.Edelen — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:46:26 -0500

We’ve given our websites - PilotOnline.com and HamptonRoads.com - a bit of a facelift. The biggest change is that we’ve modified the navigation at the top of our sites, hoping to help our users find what they’re looking for more easily and present our sites in a brighter, more updated style. Read all about it in this blog entry.

Thanks for helping us reach 5,000 fans on Facebook

Olivia.Hubert-Allen — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:50:23 -0400

PilotOnline.com - The Virginian-Pilot this week reached 5,000 fans on Facebook. We wanted to do something to thank our friends, who have helped make our page a community space where interesting conversation and sharing thrive. Here we present our video thank-you:

Video: Thanks to our 5,000 Facebook fans.
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Executive who put together deal to merge railroads dies

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 00:42:00 -0400

By Laurence Hammack ROANOKE John P. Fishwick, who defined the railroad as much as the railroad defined Roanoke, died Monday at the age of 93. As president of the Norfolk & Western Railway from 1970 to 1981, Fishwick is perhaps best remembered for negotiating a merger with the Southern Railway to form Norfolk Southern Corp., one of the nation's largest railroads.