Neptune Festival brings a close to Virginia Beach’s summer tourist season. Virginia Beach, Virginia — On one of the last weekends of a lingering summer, the Virginia Beach boardwalk is packed as people meander through crowds amid aromas of chicken-on-a-stick, fried onions and kettle corn.

This is the Neptune Festival, a celebration that marks the unofficial end of the Virginia Beach tourism season, and most of the people attending are not tourists but residents (and voters) of the Hampton Roads area, as this part of Virginia is called. When they go to the polls in November, these voters likely will have economic concerns on their minds.

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