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Personality: Jill Bussey Harris
Spotlight on president of Richmond Chapter of The Links Inc.
Jill Bussey Harris has been building a vibrant dental practice in Richmond for 20 years, making history along the way and always finding time to give back to the community. But her 31-year relationship with the Richmond Chapter of The Links Inc., holds a special place in her heart. She has served as chapter president since 2013
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SNAP benefits now can be used for online grocery shopping
Food stamps now can be used to buy groceries online in Richmond and across the state.
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Ropes of lights add an artistic touch to this pedestrian bridge on the city’s riverfront. The lines that seem to hang in the air are …
Published on November 11, 2018
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City rent and mortgage assistance program to get additional $8M in federal funds
City Hall will pump an additional $8 million into a rent and mortgage assistance program in a bid to help hundreds of strug- gling Richmond families avoid eviction.
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Art meets dance in Carpenter Theatre ballet
Expect to see art in a whole new way when the James River Valley Chapter of The Links brings Columbia City Ballet’s “Off the Wall and Onto the Stage: Dancing the Art of Jonathan Green” to Richmond’s Carpenter Theatre at Dominion Energy Center on March 10.
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‘Tickling the senses’ with food and music, jazz flutist arranges recipes for romance
To her devoted fans, the lilting, insistent melodies of smooth jazz flutist Sherry Winston are inextricably linked to romance. Love is the theme of each of her six CDs, embedded in such titles as “Do It For Love,” “Love Madness” and “Life Is Love & Love Is You.”
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Winners announced in Miss Virginia Pageant
Envelope please. And the winner of the 2018 Miss Virginia Pageant is Emili McPhail, Miss Arlington.
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To be equal: ‘Tennessee Three’ fiasco, by Marc H. Morial
“We won’t be bent, we won’t be bowed, and we won’t be ordered to ignore the hearts and minds of the people who elected us, demanding commonsense gun safety in a state that has nearly none. The GOP of the Tennessee House of Representatives attempted to obstruct me and my colleagues from these goals and to shred our democracy. Instead, Republicans have only fanned the flames of hope that illuminate our movement, helping it to grow more powerful and glow more brightly.” – Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson
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Grand opening Aug.1 of Southside Community Center
A grand opening is planned for next week for the Southside Community Center, the newest addition to the city’s inventory of recreation centers.
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Sam Howerton, left, and Ryan Gardner, displaying their message of love, were the first male same-sex couple to buy a marriage license in Richmond.
Published on October 13, 2014
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Smollett’s sideshow mocks real tragedies, by Clarence Page
True to his profession, actor Jussie Smollett reacted to his sentence of jail time for his hate-crime hoax, with the passion of a courtroom drama.
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RPS ramping up online learning
Distance learning via computers soon could become more robust for public school students in Richmond while schools are closed.
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When tenants don’t pay, eviction is the price, says one landlord
Landlords are in trouble, too, according to Bobby L. McIntosh, who is in charge of 109 units in Richmond through his company, Bayside Properties and Management.
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Dr. Johnny Mickens III, right, the great-grandson of Maggie L. Walker, and his daughter, Liza Mickens, survey the damage Monday morning at Mrs. Walker’s gravesite …
Published on August 6, 2020
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Art 180 opens residency applications
Young Richmond-area artists who want to polish their portfolios while in high school have a new opportunity to do so, courtesy of ART 180 and its Atlas Artist Residency. Applications for the nextAtlas Artists are now open for students in the 9th, 10th and 11th grade. The program will provide 10 students an eight-week residency over the summer, which will in- clude materials, studio space and a stipend of $1,350. The students’ residency will finish with a public exhibition of their work. Applications will be accepted until Thursday, March 16. Links to apply or more information can be found at www.art180.org/ student-artist-residency.
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New program helps youths with jobs
Billie Brown knows about youth unemployment. As the founder and owner of a temporary staffing agency that she began almost 16 years ago, she regularly sees young adults who cannot get work because they lack skills, have a felony record or never earned a high school diploma. Dismayed at how little was being done to help them, Ms. Brown and her company, Excel Management Services, have teamed with Saint Paul’s Baptist Church to try to make a dent in the problem.
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Zambian mission trip spurs desire to forge greater ties for Dr. Michael Jones
It is not unusual for church members to go on mission trips to provide help and support to those in need in other countries. However, Dr. Michael J. Jones said he and a small delegation from the Village of Faith Ministries that he led to rural Chibombo, Zambia, may have received as much as they gave.
