By RICHARD QUINN By Richard Quinn The Virginian-Pilot VIRGINIA BEACH In front of a particularly tidy-looking plot at Colony Mobile Home Park is a rolling gate built by Carl Corley. Out back is a hand made gravestone for Carl and Suzanne's beloved cat, Blitzer.

By RICHARD QUINN By Richard Quinn The Virginian-Pilot VIRGINIA BEACH Two Oceanfront landholders are shopping around a half-billion- dollar concept to create a mixed-use village, complete with a light- rail station, on what is now the Colony Mobile Home Park.

By RICHARD QUINN By Richard Quinn The Virginian-Pilot VIRGINIA BEACH For the second year in a row, city officials are tweaked by a report that ranks their "Community for a Lifetime" near the bottom of a list showing how many residents donate their time to good cause s.

By JULIAN WALKER By Julian Walker and Richard Quinn The Virginian-Pilot You might call it "the little bill that could." A proposal to study an extension of Norfolk's light rail line to near the Oceanfront somewhat unexpectedly passed the General Assembly during a largely fruitless transportation special session that ended earlier this month.

By Deirdre Fernandes and Richard Quinn, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Jul. 26--VIRGINIA BEACH -- Local real-estate giant L.M. Sandler & Sons Inc.