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can’t help but touch upon a few more current success-
es in Newport News - ones that benefit residents and
any interested newcomers. “There are a tremendous
amount of community assets that are pretty amaz-
ing,” he says. “There’s Christopher Newport University
–transformed under President Paul Trible. It now has
more than 5,000 students and continues to soar in its
rankings and quality of its students, and is home to
the Ferguson Center for the Arts, which is a world-class
venue. It’s a beautiful campus and it will continue to
thrive. We have great museums, including one of the
best Mariners’ Museums in the country, and frankly,
one of the best in the world. We’ve got one of the larg-
est municipal parks east of the Mississippi – Newport
News Park celebrating its 50th anniversary, this year.
And we also have a very significant airport – Newport
News/Williamsburg Airport; it’s easy to use and very
friendly to people and businesses.”
Cleder Jones, the Director of the City’s Communica-
tions Department, agrees. “Newport News is really a
great place,” she declares. “We have great cultural
amenities; we have a wonderful business climate; we
are a place where people want to come to live and
businesses want to come to do business.”
Newport News, Virginia may have a great place in his-
tory but its future is where the “great things are hap-
pening.”
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