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M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - St. Croix Foundation for Community Development (SCF) recently announced the recipients of $534,000 in grant funding through its 2025 Healing Humanities Cultural Place Keeping Grant Program. Thirteen innovative nonprofits and community groups serving the island of St. Croix have been selected to receive grants supporting projects that celebrate, preserve, and elevate St. Croix’s rich cultural and historical heritage through arts, storytell

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Ocean Point Terminals celebrated the success of 17 interns during their recent 2025 Summer Internship Presentation Day and Closing Ceremony. Friends and family members of the interns joined Ocean Point staff who looked on as the students offered testimonials and presentations on some of what they learned during their summer work experience. Ocean Point Terminals is a world-class energy logistics hub located in St. Croix, USVI, with the cap

M.A. Dworkin PHOTO CREDIT: Jeffrey Canton USVI - When you examine the type of people in the U.S. Virgin Islands, they generally fall into one of two categories: the ones that give back to their community and the ones that don’t give back. There’s really nothing wrong with either type, but it’s the ones that continue to give back to their community that seem to have an extended run of good will heaped upon them. Such are the grand folks at Sterling Optical who have been servi

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Resa O’Reilly Shearn’s groundbreaking Project Promise and its Caterpillar Project students are heading home after a remarkably successful Summer of Service Road Trip that took them to Washington, D.C., across the country to Chicago, Illinois, and up to Seattle, Washington, before heading down the west coast to San Francisco, California. What an incredible trip it was for the Caterpillars who reached deep into the culture of the United States and came

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Resa O’Reilly Shearn’s groundbreaking Project Promise and its Caterpillar Project students are taking a road trip across America this summer with their first stop touching down in Washington, D.C. on June 26, 2025 with designs on making an impact on communities outside the U.S. Virgin Islands. After the ‘Caterpillars’ touch down in D.C. the group will volunteer at the United Way of the National Capital Area by creating Healthy Snack Kits for lo

St. Croix Times Staff The University of the Virgin Islands’ (UVI) Albert A. Sheen Campus (AAS) on St. Croix has been awarded a $250,000 Campus Improvement Grant from the Home Depot’s Retool Your School Program. Now in its 15th year, the initiative continues to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by investing in sustainable campus improvements that enhance student life. UVI was one of only eight HBCUs selected nationwide to receive the max

St. Croix Times Staff The Anderson Stewart Family Foundation has announced a $1million donation to the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands (CFVI), solidifying their long-term commitment to the Territory’s future. This significant contribution marks a new chapter in the Anderson family’s decades-long relationship with the U.S. Virgin Islands. Despite their recent divestment from local business interests, the family remains dedicated to leaving a lasting positive

The Altona Lagoon Book Club loves giving books to St. Croix schools. They are an organization that firmly believes Victor Hugo’s famous word