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COLUMN — Detective Entrekin goes above and beyond for veteran
Standing in the Amelia Veteran’s Cemetery Thursday, Farmville Police Detective Sammy Entrekin seemed a bit surprised he was ... Read more
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News
Detective makes sure family-less vet receives proper burial
No one seems to know a lot about the life of Robert Garrad Jr., but he received a ... Read more
News
Centra discusses returning to normal
After a long year of battling the pandemic, Centra officials are beginning to move their hospitals back to ... Read more
News
Town joins state retirement system
Despite the reservations from its Finance Committee chairman, the Farmville Town Council agreed to join the Virginia Retirement ... Read more
Opinion
Column – Pandemic has improved access to public meetings
It’s hard to believe anything positive can come out of a pandemic that has left more than 500,000 ... Read more
News
Tax increase is on the table for Farmville property owners
Farmville property owners may be paying more taxes for the first time in more than 25 years next ... Read more
Farmville the Magazine
Editor’s Notebook — We will blossom again this spring
What a glorious spring this should be. After a year of staying home to stay safe, the COVID-19 ... Read more
Lifestyles
University job provides different challenges
Jim Wiecking currently spends his workday helping Longwood University get grant money to do research projects as part ... Read more
Opinion
COLUMN – Starlink could help solve county’s broadband problems
The problem of Prince Edward County’s lack of access to high-speed internet may have a solution on display ... Read more
Lifestyles
‘I’m a lucky, lucky person’
James Wooten Jr., 76, walks with a limp and has fought diabetes after returning from two years of ... Read more
Lifestyles
Virgil Chick was just doing his duty
Virgil Chick doesn’t think of himself as a military hero. “I don’t have any hero stories for you,” ... Read more
Lifestyles
From cook to general, Fore does it all
Being a brigadier general in the National Guard would be enough of an accomplishment for most, but for ... Read more
Lifestyles
PACE participants have a Mardi Gras celebration
Participants in the Farmville PACE (Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) traveled virtually to New Orleans to ... Read more
DEVELOPING NEWS
120 customers waiting for power to be restored
After 11 days of widespread power outages over Southside Electric Cooperative’s (SEC) 18-county area, the coop’s online outage ... Read more
DEVELOPING NEWS
Just over 500 customers without power now
The slow work of restoring power to Southside Electric Cooperative (SEC) customers continued with more than 900 workers ... Read more
DEVELOPING NEWS
Prince Edward outages drop below 1,000
More than 4,000 Southside Electric Cooperative customers (SEC) had their power restored Friday. The company brought in more ... Read more
DEVELOPING NEWS
SEC brings in more crews; more than 1,300 still out in PE
Southside Electric Cooperative (SEC) said it made significant progress over the past 24 hours restoring power to more ... Read more
DEVELOPING NEWS
Power restoration is slowly progressing
Prince Edward County still has more than 1,811 people without power following last weekend’s ice storm. The number ... Read more
DEVELOPING NEWS
2,200 remain without power
Despite Thursday’s ice storm, power outages in Prince Edward County continued to be whittled away by Dominion Energy ... Read more
Opinion
EDITORIAL — Initiative to improve relations is a good start
A new initiative to improve county-town relations between Prince Edward County and the Town of Farmville began this ... Read more
News
Outages fall below 2,500 before today’s storm
Power outages in Prince Edward County fell below 2,500 between Dominion Energy and Southside Electric Cooperative early Thursday ... Read more
News
Who asked for more ice?
A very similar ice storm event to the one that caused widespread power outages and made travel treacherous ... Read more
DEVELOPING NEWS
More people have power restored; 3,500 still out
The number of Prince Edward residents without power dropped by more than 1,500 Tuesday but as of Wednesday ... Read more
Business
Town aims to spur economic growth
The Farmville Town Council approved a memorandum of understanding with the Virginia Growth Alliance (VGA) during its Wednesday, ... Read more
BREAKING NEWS
More than 5,100 remain without power in Prince Edward
The number of people in Prince Edward County without power barely decreased in the past 24 hours as ... Read more
BREAKING NEWS
Some power was restored overnight; still more than 5,400 out
The number of households and businesses without power was reduced by about 1,500 overnight as the county now ... Read more
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More than 5,600 without power in Prince Edward
More than 2,500 Dominion Energy customers and more than 3,000 Southside Electric Cooperative (SEC) customers are without power ... Read more