Lifestyles

The Word: Jesus makes all things new

“I feel like a new person” someone will say. Maybe you’ve even expressed that same sentiment. I have ...

Mother Nature's Garden

Lifestyles

Mother Nature’s Garden: The amazing things that plants do

While plants don’t move around like animals, that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of reacting to their environment. For ...

Lifestyles

Sowing Seeds: We are the church, together

A dictionary defines church as a building for public and especially Christian worship or a body or organization ...

Lifestyles

Happy to be here: Finding the flowers

In 1955, Pete Seeger wrote a song asking “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” Additional verses were later ...

Wise Ridge

Lifestyles

Chamber hears from Wise Ridge’s new owner

A large turnout of business owners, community leaders, and advocates marked the April meeting of the Buckingham Chamber ...

Good Citizen Award

Lifestyles

Good Citizen Award given

The Judith Randolph-Longwood Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, was privileged to honor one of the ...

Farmville Farmer's Market

Lifestyles

Opening Day for Farmville Farmer’s Market

Saturday, April 29 marked the first Farmville Farmer’s Market of this season. Business owners from across the area ...

Education

Fuqua Falcons put on a night to enjoy

By Elena Meader The Farmville Herald Fuqua School’s 2023 Jazz Night offered a performance of lively instrumentals and ...

Lifestyles

Devotional: Trusting God

Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him ...

Herald Community Calendar

Lifestyles

Herald Church and Community Calendar for the week of May 5

The Herald Church and Community Events calendar is published each Friday. Items must be submitted by 10 a.m. ...

Garden Club

Lifestyles

Garden Club visits the Awareness Garden

The Buckingham-Dillwyn Garden Club recently visited the Awareness Garden in Lynchburg. The Awareness Garden honors families, friends, and ...

Vietnam veteran

News

Centra Hospice honors Vietnam veteran

Centra Hospice volunteers Betty Baskin, Fred Hill and Tom Crouse recently honored Vietnam veteran George Lacks with a ...

Lifestyles

Trents Mill News: Sending out thoughts and prayers

First off this week, we want to encourage several folks to heal up after recent troubles.  We send ...

Lifestyles

Book Club learns about the outdoors

The Third Thursday Book Club held its April meeting at the home of Lila Reach. Lee Woodruff, an ...

New Members

Lifestyles

New member inducted

The Judith Randolph-Longwood Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, recently added two new members, Jane Elizabeth Atkins Crockett ...

Bird Club

Lifestyles

Bird Club holds season’s final program

Stories from both here at home and across Africa will be the focus of the final Margaret Watson ...

Dillwyn parks

Lifestyles

Changes coming for Dillwyn parks, with work beginning this month

DILLWYN – As summer quickly approaches, families will seek more opportunities to spend time outside. Even though all ...

hazmat situation Arvonia VFD Cumberland County Woodland Church Road fire

Lifestyles

Letter to the Editor: It’s not always about fire safety, but it should be.

Recently, the Buckingham County Board of Supervisors and the Buckingham fire departments had a conversation about fire safety ...

caffeine addict

Lifestyles

Mike Wilson: Dear Farmville, I’m not a caffeine addict, I promise

Apparently I scarred my grown daughters for life by chugging down a Red Bull at 2 a.m. We ...

Medicaid changes pilot program Farmville Police free clinics

Lifestyles

Medicaid changes coming to Farmville, rest of state on May 1

Medicaid changes are coming for local residents. Specifically, for the first time in three years, Virginia residents on ...

Garden

Lifestyles

Through the Garden Gate: Just a typical week in the garden

Gardening is supposed to be peaceful, calming, and restorative. Most of the time that’s true, but once in ...

Lifestyles

The Word: Be the good needed where you are

I have struggled in finding the origin of this wise short story for quite some time as numerous ...

Lifestyles

Devotional: Coalition for moral excellence

The Almighty provided an excellent example for our reflection. On Sunday, April 9, Jews, Christians and Muslims observed ...

Eagle Scout badge

Education

Cole Foster finishes his Eagle Scout project, helping Fuqua School

Earlier this month, Cole Foster reached a milestone. A Life Scout from Troop 6516 and Fuqua School junior, ...

Fashion Show

Lifestyles

Setting the Stage: Fashion show lays groundwork for future projects

RICE – It took weeks of planning, plenty of organizing and a couple prayers, asking for the weather ...

ghostly bell

Lifestyles

From The Archive: Longwood’s ghostly bell and baggage wagon

FARMVILLE – Our story begins more than 100 years ago, with a ghostly bell, a wagon and the ...

Lifestyles

Sowing Seeds: More stories about Easter

After Jesus’ death, the disciples were consumed with questions: Why did Jesus have to die? What will happen ...

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