Lifestyles

Inmates train to become recovery specialists

Nine inmates at Buckingham Correctional Center recently became the first individuals incarcerated in a Virginia Department of Corrections ...

Curdsville Community Center

Lifestyles

Curdsville Center gets new president

The Curdsville Community Center has a new president for 2024. That would be Mark Allman, a 2015 graduate ...

Prince Edward County Employees of the Month

Lifestyles

Employees of the Month recognized: January 2024

Due to inclement weather in January, the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors had the pleasure of recognizing ...

Elwood Longwood Lancers Selection Sunday

News

Selection Sunday watch party set, Longwood will open up JPB

The Longwood Lancers will find out when and where they are dancing in March Madness on Sunday, March ...

Prince Edward supervisors ICA Farmville

News

Prince Edward supervisors make a decision about ICE contract

One month after opening negotiations, Prince Edward supervisors have made a decision about ICE. By a unanimous vote ...

Prince Edward schools school board school accreditation changes

Education

Mentoring program to help Prince Edward’s first-year teachers

  Prince Edward County Public Schools (PECPS), in partnership with Longwood University, has received a grant totaling $24,000 ...

Buckingham Knights Hampden-Sydney baseball Tigers

News

Hampden-Sydney baseball scores early and often against SVU

They started in the third inning and just kept going. Run after run poured in as the Hampden-Sydney ...

Buckingham County man Joseph Cunningham Hartless murder

News

Joseph Cunningham case sent to trial by grand jury

Joseph Frank Cunningham will face a jury trial later this year. A grand jury in Amherst County returned ...

East Osborne Street fire

News

Multiple departments called out to battle East Osborne Street fire

Firefighters from multiple departments received an early wake-up call Saturday, responding to a blaze in Farmville. The town’s ...

seed bank 

News

Buckingham-Dillwyn Garden Club helps update library’s seed bank 

Seeds and spring sowing are under consideration at the Central Virginia Regional Library in Dillwyn. Working to organize ...

Big South

College

Farmville celebrates Big South Championship win with Lancers

They started lining up with about 10 minutes to go. Longwood students, Farmville residents and some folks from ...

Big South Longwood nonconference schedule.

News

Back to the Big Dance: Lancers earn NCAA spot with Big South win

Elijah Tucker had a message for his teammates Sunday. Go get it done. The redshirt sophomore from Canton, ...

Prince Edward schools school board school accreditation changes

Education

What is a ‘Professor in Residence’? Project helps Prince Edward schools

He’s listed as being on staff at James Madison University (JMU), but Chapman Frazier’s place of work is ...

Final Four

News

‘Maybe I’ll shoot a few’: Brazil, Hardy help Tigers make Final Four

He walked into the postgame press conference still holding on to the net. For Josiah Hardy and some ...

Longwood men's basketball Coach Aldrich NCAA Tournament

News

‘We’re still fighting’: Longwood returns to Big South Championship

On Friday night, Longwood guard Walyn Napper was asked about the Big South Championship, the run his team ...

Prayer Breakfast series Moton Museum

Lifestyles

Moton Museum sets dates for Prayer Breakfast series

The longest running program from the Moton Museum will finish up its current season with two special events. ...

Great Bird Count

Lifestyles

Great Bird Count at Bear Creek Lake State Park

Some of the photos started coming in from Thailand. A couple popped up from India and a handful ...

Hampden-Sydney Tigers

News

‘We’re not done yet’: Hampden-Sydney Tigers win big in Sweet 16

It was a big night for the Hampden-Sydney Tigers in a number of ways. Not only did they ...

Walyn Napper Longwood seniors Longwood Lancers

News

Walyn Napper in Control: Senior pushes Longwood into semi-finals

Once again Walyn Napper was Mr. March. Once again Longwood was the toughest team when the game – ...

John McGuire Prince Edward Middle School

Education

Prince Edward Middle School students have writing published

Several Prince Edward County Middle School students are now published writers. A number of students have been featured ...

signs with Emory and Henry

News

Buckingham County High senior signs with Emory and Henry

Liberty Faith Johnson is headed to Emory and Henry College in the fall. The Buckingham County High senior ...

Walyn Napper

News

Walyn Napper hits milestone: Longwood guard passes 1,000-points

His head coach calls Walyn Napper the team’s engine. College basketball analysts agree, saying he drives Longwood’s efforts ...

Freedom Libraries

News

Freedom libraries open in Buckingham County. Where are they?

The doors opened in the middle of last week. National nonprofit Freedom Reads officially found a place to ...

John McGuire Prince Edward Middle School

News

John McGuire has three bills unanimously approved by Assembly

There are only a handful of members who can say one of their bills passed through the General ...

Longwood women

News

Longwood women bow out in Big South Quarterfinals

It was a basketball season that started with the opening of a new home arena, and finished with ...

scholarship donation

Education

Clothes Closet offers scholarship donation

Bruce Robinson, chairman of the Cumberland Education Foundation, back center, received a check for $10,000 from Barbara Daniels, ...

Education

Sailor’s Creek offers ‘Legends’ program

Coming up later this month, residents will have a chance to learn about the legends of what happened ...

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