Farmville

Celebrating Jim Ryan through his art

“Jim Ryan: A Retrospective” has opened to the community. The show opened Friday, June 3, at the J ...

Church & Community

Taylor to perform in Scottsville

The Focus Contemporary Art and the Scottsville Center for Arts and Nature (SCAN) have scheduled an evening with ...

Cumberland

Honoring a legacy, new plaque commemorates the Cumberland 10

Fifty years ago, 10 students made civil rights history just by going to class in a new school. ...

Buckingham

‘Shirley was remarkable’

A fixture of the Buckingham community — one who often walked the concrete floors of her store greeting customers ...

Church & Community

Community enjoys foot-stomping Friday night fun

The Farmville Recreation Department hosted the Farm Use String Band on Friday for a concert and dance lessons. ...

Church & Community

World War I and the Farmville American Legion

First in a series Dr. Ray A. Gaskins Professor Emeritus, H-SC After a period of inactivity, the Farmville ...

Lifestyle Main

LCVA hosts first ‘Wine and Brew’

The Farmville community gathered in the Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) to enjoy wine, beer and ...

Church & Community

Garden Club meets

The Buckingham Dillwyn Garden Club met at Ellis Acres Memorial Park with Wilbur Dean, executive director, and planted ...

Business

Downtown Partnership says ‘thanks’

The community flocked to the Annual Farmville Downtown Partnership Thank You Party on Wednesday, May 11 at the ...

Church & Community

CVA exhibit reception is Thursday

  Central Virginia Arts invites the community to a reception presenting twenty CVA artists on Thursday from 6-8 ...

Church & Community

Outdoor Film Series opens June 10

Farmville’s Downtown Film Series has scheduled season 19 of the award-winning Stars Under The Stars program. Started in 1997 ...

Church & Community

A renaissance of art, 40 artists show at the Heart of Virginia Festival

Forty artists from as far away as North Carolina displayed paintings, pottery, jewelry, mixed media, watercolors and other ...

Church & Community

Cumberland Club enjoys bucket program

The Cumberland Garden Club met April 26 at the Cumberland Library. After a business discussion and reminder that ...

Lifestyle Main

Past comes to life in Stanley Park

A popular saying advises, “You can’t go home again.” Gordon Johnson and Alecia Daves-Johnson, of Prospect, beg to ...

Church & Community

Weyanoke Club tours H-SC

In April the Weyanoke Garden Club enjoyed the spring beauty of the Hampden-Sydney College campus.  H-SC senior Josh ...

Church & Community

Hope and help rebuild Evergreen, ‘Torn-AID-o’ benefit set for May 7

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Bonnie Swanson said of her drive home from Appomattox County High School ...

Church & Community

Community honors Johns, Griffin

Community members united on Sunday at the First Baptist Church to celebrate the 65-year anniversary of the historic ...

Celebrations

To wed in June

Bill and Mae Duker, of Farmville, announce the engagement of their daughter Rebecca Lynn Duker, to Andrew Hardy ...

Cumberland

An institution of community service

Let me live in a house by the side of the road, and be a friend to man. ...

Buckingham

Gala to benefit the Free Clinic

The fundraiser that serves as the primary revenue source for the Heart of Virginia Free Clinic is set ...

Church & Community

Hundreds attend Farmville Wine Festival

The Farmville Wine Festival’s fried foods and fermented grapes filled Riverside Park with relaxation as the community enjoyed ...

Church & Community

From ‘Hurt’ to hope — film aims to heal

Kolby Grimsley is a teenager on a mission. Distressed by two suicides and the threat of a school ...

Church & Community

The Woodland receives award

The Farmville Area Chamber of Commerce has presented its Looking our Best award for April to The Woodland’s ...

Celebrations

Wine Festival is Saturday

FARMVILLE — The annual Farmville Wine Festival is set for Saturday at Riverside Park on Main Street in downtown ...

Church & Community

Hospital’s Schwabe gives CPR demonstration

Centra Southside Community Hospital’s Anne-Latane Schwabe gave a demonstration and lesson on infant/child CPR and first aid to ...

Church & Community

Murder and intrigue visit Hampden-Sydney — History provides lessons for today

It was a dark and stormy night in January of 1857 — the perfect setting for murder. Murder ...

Business

From desk job to auger operator

By Carson Reeher Special to The Farmville Herald Charlotte Gaines helps keep the lights on in Farmville. She ...

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