COVID-19
Mobile vaccination clinics come to Meherrin
The Virginia Department of Health’s Piedmont Health District, will begin mobile vaccination clinics next week. These mobile clinics will offer free COVID-19 vaccines in a ...
Top Stories
Buckingham grads receive words of wisdom
The 133 graduates in Buckingham High School’s Class of 2021 received some quality words of wisdom Saturday at ...
High Bridge to reopen Wednesday
After a 4-month closure for redecking and preventive maintenance, High Bridge Trail State Park will officially reopen the ...
Wreck takes life of karate instructor
A former Farmville karate instructor died recently in a three-car crash on Route 60 in Powhatan County. Michael ...
Crews battle structure fire on South Airport Road
Crews responded in the early hours of Thursday morning, May 13, to a structure fire in the 400 ...
COVID-19
Northam lifts VA’s mask mandate
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has lifted the state’s universal indoor mask mandate and announced Virginia will soon be easing all social distancing and capacity restrictions ...
by Staff Report.
Local
County cleanup effort nets 1,820 lbs. of trash
The Prince Edward Board of Supervisors’ $10,000 investment toward a cleaner county is already paying dividends with more than 1,800 lbs. of garbage already collected. ...
by Roger Watson, Friday, May 14, 2021 3:13 pm
College
Radford ends Longwood’s softball season
Fueled by a one-hit shutout from All-Big South right-hander Jesse Marvin, the fourth seed Radford Highlanders (22-31) dealt the third seeded Longwood Lancers a season-ending ...
by Staff Report, Friday, May 14, 2021 2:33 pm
Buckingham
Wise wins Grand Champion
Tanner Wise, of Poplar View Farm LLC and an 11th grader at Buckingham County High School, competed at the Piedmont Area Junior Livestock Show Saturday, ...
by Staff Report, Friday, May 14, 2021 1:07 pm
Columns
Wisteria is the perfect plant for a pergola
Whenever I visit friends in England, I’m seriously envious of their garden, but especially the wisteria (wisteria sinensis) that festoons one side of their 19th ...
by Dr. Cynthia Wood, Friday, May 14, 2021 1:06 pm
BUSINESS
Beef and commodity prices updated
Virginia Market News Service reported the following weekly ag trends on May 7. In Virginia, state graded feeder cattle $2 to $9 lower. Feeder cattle ...
by Staff Report, Friday, May 14, 2021 1:04 pm
TRENT'S MILL NEWS
Browns Chapel to host benefit gospel sing
The Cumberland County Landfill Alert Committee will host its regular monthly meeting Sunday, May 16, at 3 p.m. at the Cumberland County Community Center located ...
by Annie May Miles, Friday, May 14, 2021 1:03 pm
THE WORD
Finding true unity is a messy process
In the scriptures we find many calls for unity. From the Psalms: “How pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” (133:1). From ...
by Brent Roberts, Friday, May 14, 2021 1:02 pm
Buckingham
Crash victim wanted for first-degree murder
A man involved in a head-on collision in Buckingham County earlier this month was later revealed to be a suspect wanted in relation to a ...
by Alexa Massey, Friday, May 14, 2021 12:26 pm
CHURCH & COMMUNITY
Church and community events
The Church and Community Events calendar is published each Friday. Items must be submitted by 10 a.m. Monday for that Friday’s calendar. Events should be ...
by Staff Report, Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00 am
DEVOTIONAL
We can always rely on God
Tis the season for graduations. Hampden-Sydney just had two, this year’s graduating class and the previous year’s class that got bumped because of COVID. I ...
by Guest Columnist, Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00 am
LIFESTYLES
Benchmark Community Bank is ‘Looking Our Best’
The Farmville Area Chamber of Commerce presented the “Looking Our Best Award” to Benchmark Community Bank Tuesday, May 11, at their midtown location in Farmville. ...
by Staff Report, Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00 am
LCVA
LCVA features youth art exhibition
The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts presents “Start with Art, Learn for Life: The Annual Area Youth Art Exhibition,” which will be on display ...
by Staff Report, Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00 am
LOCAL
ABC stores return to normal hours
After more than a year of reduced operating hours in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, all Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) stores will return ...
by Staff Report, Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00 am
SOWING SEEDS
In search of the impossible dream
My favorite song within my favorite play, “Man of La Mancha.” is “Impossible Dream.” The story is loosely based on “Don Quixote” by Miguel Cervantes ...
by Larry Davies, Friday, May 14, 2021 6:00 am
Columns
Finding true unity is a messy process
In the scriptures we find many calls for unity. From the Psalms: “How pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” (133:1) From ...
by Brent Roberts, Thursday, May 13, 2021 6:38 pm
College
Spartans push Lancers to elimination game
Capped by a walk-off single from All-Big South second baseman Tiffany Domingue in the bottom of the seventh inning, second seed USC Upstate edged out third seed ...
by Staff Report, Thursday, May 13, 2021 5:23 pm
High School
Knights pitch second straight shutout
The Buckingham High baseball team continued to roll through its schedule with a 10-0 one-hit game against Randolph-Henry High School. Wednesday’s game at Randolph-Henry came ...
by Staff Report, Thursday, May 13, 2021 5:11 pm
College
11 Tigers named to ODAC teams
Hampden-Sydney placed 11 student-athletes on the 2021 All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Men’s Lacrosse Teams, including four First Team, five Second Team, and two Third ...
by Staff Report, Thursday, May 13, 2021 4:55 pm
College
Three Tigers named to all-conference teams
Hampden-Sydney College placed three student-athletes on the 2021 All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) baseball teams, including senior captain Ryan Clawson of Moseley as a Second Team All-ODAC selection, ...
by Staff Report, Thursday, May 13, 2021 2:33 pm
COVID-19
Prince Edward has lowest vaccination rate in region
Despite being the site of many mass COVID-19 vaccine clinics and efforts to lead a public vaccine campaign, Prince Edward County has remained the lowest-vaccinated ...
by Alexa Massey, Thursday, May 13, 2021 1:50 pm
Education
H-SC grads urged to ‘do the right thing anyway’
Hampden-Sydney College’s Class of 2021 gathered in front of Venable Hall last Saturday, May 8, with family and friends. They heard the wisdom of a ...
by Roger Watson, Thursday, May 13, 2021 11:17 am
College
Brock Center to begin construction soon
A new events facility with the potential to transform both the Longwood University campus and the community will begin to rise from the old tennis ...
by Roger Watson, Thursday, May 13, 2021 9:31 am
Local
Chief Ellington talks training and recruiting
When Farmville Police Chief Andy Ellington looks at the video of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin with his knee of the neck of George Floyd ...
by Alexa Massey, Thursday, May 13, 2021 9:18 am
Cumberland
EMS changes concern citizens
Some citizens at the southern end of Cumberland County are expressing concern over the recent changes to Cumberland Fire and EMS including fears an increased ...
by Alexa Massey, Thursday, May 13, 2021 9:14 am
Buckingham
Pipeline attack causes gas shortage, state of emergency
Some area gas stations are running out of fuel after a ransomware attack to the Colonial Pipeline system led to gas shortages across the commonwealth ...
by Alexa Massey, Thursday, May 13, 2021 9:11 am
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