Natalia Nelson
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Chesapeake Sheriff’s Office introduces reentry program for female inmates (opens the original)
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Last month, seven women at the Chesapeake Correctional Center graduated from the facility’s first reentry program specifically for female inmates. The men there have had a reentry program for years to teach them about financial literacy, life skills, parenting and mental health. But formerly incarcerated women face a unique set of challenges after their release, and Chesapeake Sheriff Wallace Chadwick said his office sought to fill that gap. “Some of them are primary caregivers. Some of them hav
A Portsmouth man was incarcerated at 17. Now, he’s helping other former inmates reenter society. (opens the original)
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Michael Marshall was still in high school the first time he got in trouble with the law. He was 17 years old when a robbery charge landed him at Chesapeake Juvenile Services. Marshall, a Portsmouth native, lost his mom when he was 9. Without any guidance, he said, he ended up getting involved with drugs and criminal activities at a young age. When he got out of jail, he said he went back to the same communities and the people that got him into trouble in the first place. He hadn’t learned his le
Historical Village opens to public at Chesapeake’s Great Dismal Swamp (opens the original)
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After years of planning and gathering funding, city leaders cut the ribbon on the Historical Village at the Dismal Swamp this week. Located off George Washington Highway South along the Dismal Swamp Canal Trail, the exhibits each share a piece of the swamp’s role in Virginia history. The project was funded locally and by state and federal grants. It began with the renovation of the Cornland School, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1902 for Black students, which reopened as a museum in 2024. Mildr
Chesapeake City Council approves 8-month hold on data center applications (opens the original)
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The Chesapeake City Council won’t review applications for data centers for the next eight months, or until they approve a formal data center policy. The council unanimously passed a resolution at its Tuesday meeting that delayed consideration for conditional use permit or zoning change applications for data centers. In the meantime, the council will finalize the data center policy Chesapeake’s Planning Commission sent to them, gather public input and research industry best practices. The commiss
Portsmouth firefighters’ union pushes for collective bargaining, citing staffing concerns (opens the original)
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Over two years after the Portsmouth City Council approved collective bargaining for city employees, a lieutenant paramedic stood in front of the council. “Show as a vote on the record, and finish what you started,” Tiffany Stuart, president of the Portsmouth Professional Fire Fighters and Paramedics Union, said at the council’s July 14 meeting. “Our members answer emergency calls every day in the heat, the rain and the shine.” Despite approving city employees’ ability to collectively bargain in
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