Personality: Joyce Woolridge
Spotlight on chair of 3rd Annual Women of Faith Praying for A Cure prayer brunch
Joyce Woolridge is an advocate for people to have their annual health checkups and cancer screenings. “Cancer checkups are not to be run from,” she says. “They are to be run to, especially women. It is also important for men because they can have breast or prostate cancer, as well as other forms of the disease.
City Council acts to reduce ‘drama’ during annual school funding debates
Richmond Public Schools each year would receive at least 55.4 percent of all real estate tax revenue City Hall collects under a policy unanimously approved Monday night by Richmond City Council.
Overcharged? 4 Richmond School Board members question surging costs to build new schools in city
The projected cost of the three new schools that Richmond is preparing to build has jumped an average of $107 per square foot in just five months, adding tens of millions of dollars to the cost, according to four members of the Richmond School Board.
Mueller report may be available in April
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is combing through special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, removing classified and other information in hopes of releasing the report to Congress in April.
Parity and equity
Several searing events during the past two weeks have again raised serious questions about the lack of parity and equity in this nation.
Chesapeake’s Grant Holloway is breaking records all the way to the Olympics
Track and field aficionados in Virginia discovered Grant Holloway years ago. Now the whole country knows.
Richmond Christian School girls’ basketball team wins VISAA state title
The Richmond Christian School girls’ basketball team didn’t even have enough players for a full 5-on-5 scrimmage this season.
John Marshall H.S. students make All-State team
John Marshall High School guards DeMarr McRae and Levar Allen have made Virginia’s 3A All-State basketball team.
VCU loses in A-10 Tourney, heads to NCAA
If you’re Virginia Commonwealth University center Marcus Santos-Silva, here’s your weekend assignment: On Friday, you’ll be trading elbows with the nation’s tallest player.
NSU loses in MEAC final; heads to NIT
When one door closed, another opened for the Norfolk State University basketball team.
Personality: Mary R. Sadovszky
Spotlight on chair of CancerLINC’s Bags & Bourbon Benefit
Mary R. Sadovszky, chair of the Bags & Bourbon Benefit, a live and silent auction to benefit CancerLINC, is working weekends and nights to make this charitable event Richmond’s most memorable spring fundraiser.
Second round no charm in NCAA Division II: VSU Trojans lose 82-80 squeaker to West Liberty
Virginia State University’s best basketball season in school history stalled just this side of Pittsburgh.
Second round no charm in NCAA Division II: Lady Panthers take a fall to Indiana Univ.
Full of hope, the Virginia Union University Lady Panthers traveled six hours by bus to mountainous Glenville, W.Va., for the NCAA Division II Atlantic Regional playoffs.
Cityscape: Slices of life and scenes in Richmond
Large, triangular public art stands on the future site of the Historic Fulton Memorial Park at 5001 Williamsburg Road at the foot of Powhatan Hill in the East End.
School Board to take up rezoning, budget resolution April 8
The Richmond School Board is still far from making specific decisions on rezoning the city’s 44 public schools, but it is starting to take preliminary steps to address a long sought goal of “right-sizing” the division.
New bridge named for longtime school volunteer
Robert S. “Bob” Argabright II is receiving special recognition for his volunteer service to Oak Grove-Bellemeade Elementary School in South Side.
Federal appeals court rejects VSU professor’s claim on pay discrimination
Studies show that men make more money than women for doing the same work, but proving in court that gender bias is the reason a woman is receiving lower pay turns out to be very difficult.
New RRHA chief takes over March 25
The new chief executive officer of the 79-year-old Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority is scheduled to arrive Monday, March 25, to take charge of the independent agency that manages more the 4,000 public housing units.
Discrimination lawsuit against Henrico County to go to trial Monday
Jeanetta Lee is hoping a federal jury will agree with her that Henrico County engaged in racial discrimination in awarding a plum job promotion to a less qualified white man.
Virginia teams at ‘The Big Dance’
The NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament — “The Big Dance” — begins this week with 68 schools ready to kick up their heels.
