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Dos Passos Prize

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‘How Not to Drown’: Dos Passos Prize recipient tells her own story

This past Wednesday, April 9, novelist and editor Angie Cruz paid a visit to Farmville to receive the ...

Ronnie Thomas

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‘I’m the ultimate competitor’: Ronnie Thomas takes over Longwood

Longwood Coach Ronnie Thomas hates to lose. This isn’t in some casual way, like when it comes to ...

Ronnie Thomas

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Ronnie Thomas takes over at Longwood, as Aldrich heads to UVA

Next man up. Longwood basketball didn’t have to look far for a new leader to extend the tradition ...

Hampden-Sydney Track spring track Arvonia Cumberland High Farmville

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Farmville resident places fifth, leads Longwood at Richmond race

Longwood outdoor track put together a solid start to the outdoor season on Friday at the Fred Hardy ...

Longwood women

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Longwood women see record-setting season end on final shot

It came down to literally the last shot of the night. Duquesne’s Jerni Kiaku hit an off-balance leaner ...

Longwood women's basketball team

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Longwood women’s basketball team prepares for WNIT

The run’s not done, and the band is still together. Longwood women’s basketball, as announced earlier in the ...

Longwood women's basketball team

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Season isn’t over for Longwood women, as team earns WNIT bid

The record-setting season for the Lady Lancers will continue. Led by graduate guard Kiki McIntyre, the nation’s steals leader ...

John Feinstein

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‘He will be missed’: Farmville, sports world mourns John Feinstein

They left a seat open in his honor on Thursday. On the day John Feinstein passed away, the ...

cell phone-free education Dominion Energy Cumberland County

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Scam involving toll texts arrives in this region

Over the last couple of weeks, it’s popped up several times. People in Farmville and the surrounding area ...

Sprouse's Corner Ranch

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Sprouse’s Corner Ranch eyes expansion, asks county approval

Back in 2006, the Sprouse family came before the Buckingham planning commission, asking for a special use permit. ...

Longwood women

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Longwood women take battle into overtime, lose on final shot

USC Upstate’s Cassie Gallagher knocked down a baseline jumper with 7.3 seconds remaining in overtime as the Spartans ...

Longwood women

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Longwood women make it 20 wins with Triumph at Winthrop

The Longwood women engineered a 13-2 run in the third quarter and fought off a late Winthrop comeback ...

Longwood women

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Longwood women make it three in a row, beat UNC Asheville

Mariah Wilson led all players with 19 points and eight rebounds to pace the Longwood women to a ...

Longwood Longwood Lancers

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Longwood records another Big South win, as tournament looms

The snow kept falling outside the Joan Perry Brock Center on Wednesday night. Inside, shots were finally falling ...

winter storm

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Cleanup continues, with another winter storm system on the way

As of 6 a.m. Monday, 7.5% of Buckingham customers, 6.5% of those in Cumberland and 1.7% in Prince ...

Longwood Longwood Lancers

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Short-handed Longwood Lancers fall short against Presbyterian

The out-of-sorts and injury-riddled Longwood Lancers, down three scoring threats, couldn’t find enough of a spark in the ...

Longwood women

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Longwood women run over Presbyterian to secure road win

The Longwood women used prolonged runs at the end of each quarter to earn a 71-60 win over ...

Power restoration

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‘Trees are our main issue’: Companies stop power restoration estimates

The number of power outages in Prince Edward County rose by more than 1,000 overnight. The same goes ...

Longwood men's basketball

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Longwood returns to ESPN later this week

One of the best Big South games of the season took place when Longwood hosted High Point in ...

Longwood women

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Longwood women fall as Radford Highlanders win fifth straight

Senior guard Malea Brown posted her second 20-point game of the season and grabbed a game-high-tying eight rebounds for ...

Longwood women

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Fourth-quarter comeback falls short for Longwood women

Down as many as 19 points late in the first half and 14 at the start of the ...

Longwood women's basketball team

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Longwood women’s basketball team leads NCAA in steals

Pressure creates diamonds, the saying goes. But sometimes, pressure breaks stuff, in a good way! Case in point? ...

Hampden-Sydney basketball Hampden-Sydney Tigers

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Hampden-Sydney Tigers make it four straight with home win

The wins keep coming and the player leading the way is a familiar one. Adam Brazil poured in ...

Longwood women

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Longwood women suffer last second road loss

USC Upstate held off a fourth-quarter charge from the Longwood women at the G.B. Hodge Center, dealing the ...

Longwood men's basketball Paradise Jam Farmville Lancers

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Lancers stage comeback, pick up home win over USC Upstate

With just seven minutes left in the first half and the Lancers staring up at a 13-point deficit, ...

Longwood men's basketball Big South

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Guards lead the way for Longwood men’s basketball

Find a good basketball team, and you almost always see a good point guard at the heart of ...

Mountain Pine Solar Pineside Solar North Branch Solar Assembly solar bill

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Solar bill would put counties on clock with 2026 deadline for work

If HB2126 passes in the Virginia Assembly this session, Buckingham, Cumberland and all other Virginia counties would then ...

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