Posted on: September 8, 2023
Jen Surber was 22 years old and fresh out of college when she went to work for a nonprofit, People Inc., that was looking to develop affordable housing in southwest Virginia but had zero institutional experience with the process of applying for low-income...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community
Posted on: August 2, 2023
Across Chesterfield, residents came together Tuesday for the 40th National Night Out, an annual event that promotes community-police partnerships to make our neighborhoods safer.
National Night Out was launched in August 1984 through a network of law enfor...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community
Posted on: July 20, 2023
Audrey Ross with Dr. James Worsley, Chesterfield's deputy county administrator for human services
“The history of Midlothian's African American community has been told, but limitedly, and I always knew there was so much missing,” said Audrey Ross, a 2023 S...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community
Posted on: July 10, 2023
Linda Hudgens with Dr. James Worsley, Chesterfield's deputy county administrator for human services
As a retired pediatric nurse, Linda Hudgens has always enjoyed serving the community of Chesterfield.
“It’s a passion. It’s what drives us all to do what we ...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community
Posted on: May 30, 2023
When he joined the U.S. Army, Ohio native Stephan Ruppel-Lee requested an Infantry assignment in Korea because he thought it would give him the best chance to eventually be selected for the demanding Ranger School.
The Army had other plans.
One day near the...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community
Posted on: April 26, 2023
Dr. Roger Loria speaks about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor last week at Chesterfield Baptist Church.
Reflecting on the Holocaust some 80 years later, Dr. Roger Loria knows he was “one of the lucky ones.” But for a couple of extremely close calls,...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community
Posted on: March 13, 2023
NBC12 anchor Sarah Bloom (left) interviews Chesterfield employees Ashley Rogers and Leslie Pakula.
NBC12 anchor and TV personality Sarah Bloom is joining Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Families First and Infant & Toddler Connection of Chesterfield in it...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community
Posted on: February 23, 2023
The notion of segregated schools in Chesterfield feels like a remnant of the distant past, long ago relegated to oral tradition as just one of many horrors visited upon Black people across the Jim Crow South.
To Charlotte Wood, the passage of time has done...
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Chesterfield on Point - Community