None of Suffolk’s post offices will be closing under an efficiency plan announced by the U.S. Postal Service on Friday. he post offices in Chuckatuck and other Suffolk areas had their retail hours cut this fall, to the ire of many local residents and business owners. However, the Chuckatuck station now is open 24 hours a day for post office box access, Sansone said. An upgraded security system had to be installed before the lobby could be open around the clock.
Recognizing the fact that things are changing in the city’s villages, too, the Chuckatuck Historical Foundation, a group of private citizens in the old community, is working to do its part to preserve the history that would be forgotten as new residents move into the area, as new developments swallow up old farms and as old buildings are replaced by new ones.
The Chuckatuck Historical Foundation is making its last call for pictures and information to be included in a book on the area’s history. The foundation has drafted a schedule and hired editors that will help them navigate from the written information and compiled photographs to the priced and finished product.
…the city agreed last week to give the Nansemonds roughly 100 acres of prime riverfront land in Lone Star Lakes Park. The tribe plans to use it for Mattanock Town, an $8 million replica of a 17th century village, cultural center and burial ground.
Few places in Hampton Roads are as fun to say. Chuck-a-tuck. The village, in northwestern Suffolk by the Nansemond River, gained prominence as a crossroads in the days of stagecoaches, said Lynn K. Rose, chairman of the Greater Chuckatuck Historical Foundation.