COOPERATIVE FOCUS
Keeping History Alive
“We want to enlighten people and preserve history about local Black education prior to integration,” says Northside High School alumnus Silas Musgrove, a retired educator, school guidance counselor and coach.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Opportunity
Botetourt is planning to hold the Girls’ Fire Camp again this year at Lord Botetourt High School in Daleville to inform kids, especially young girls, about the option of a future career in fire rescue, and possibly to get parents interested in volunteering or becoming career employees.
The Industrial EVolution
Battery-electric trucks, forerunners of an electrified future, and they are already running daily routes in Southwest Virginia.
The School on the Hill
After more than 60 years, Delores Nash-Hicks was back in fourth grade, and she could not have been more delighted.
During COVID-19, This Corps Delivers
January 2021During COVID-19, This Corps Delivers Eastern Shore volunteer group worth its weight in toilet paper As executive director of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel District, Jeff Holland knows a thing or two about building and maintaining bridges. That’s...
When COVID-19 Strikes
January 2021 The Onley Community Health Center is a low-slung brick building with a green awning and roof, tucked just off U.S. 13 on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The center is one of five operated by Eastern Shore Rural Health System Inc. for roughly 31,000 patients...