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MORE TALKS EXPECTED BY BOARD COMMITTEE Nottoway County has received an estimate of $24,000 to remove the 1893 Confederate Memorial in front of the courthouse and re-assemble it elsewhere. County Administrator County Administrator Ronnie Roark was...

SUPERVISOR SOUNDS OFF

DIST. 2 REP UNLOADS ON FB A recent bout with symptoms of Lyme’s Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever isn’t stopping a member of the Nottoway Board of Supervisors from ‘drawing blood’ on several County issues. In a 35-minute Facebook Live...

The COVID Express

Pandemic Patience The Piedmont Health District reports that 321 area residents participated Saturday in a free drive-thru COVID-19 testing event at Nottoway High School. “We greatly appreciate everyone’s support in the process along with the...

MONUMENTAL ASSIGNMENT

Helen Simmons made it clear that she didn’t want a committee to study the Confederate Memorial in front of Nottoway Courthouse. But now the Board of Supervisors Chair has asked that the Board’s Courthouse Complex/Landfill Committee offer a report or...

FINAL STAND?

PASSIONATE PLEAS FROM OPPONENTS, SUPPORTERS OF STATUE How the Nottoway Board of Supervisors plans to handle a growing debate over the future of a Confederate memorial, which has stood in front of the County’s Courthouse since 1893, remains uncertain...

SEARCH FOR SUSPECTS CONTINUES IN BLACKSTONE HOME INVASION

LW “Leonard” Wallace was relaxing in his Nottoway Avenue home, watching TV, when suddenly he heard a loud noise in the kitchen. It was approximately 9:30 p.m. on Sunday night, July 12th. Wallace, 83, says he figured something had fallen in the...

News

$24,000 TO MOVE

MORE TALKS EXPECTED BY BOARD COMMITTEE

SUPERVISOR SOUNDS OFF

DIST. 2 REP UNLOADS ON FB

CONFESSION LEADS TO CONVICTIONS

A Prince Edward County man, who changed his story to authorities, is awaiting sentencing after being convicted last week in Nottoway on more than a dozen charges stemming from crimes at Crewe Tract

Sports

BOSTON COLLEGE ‘BANKS’ ON NOTTOWAY COUGAR QB

Tyler Banks of Blackstone barely has his driver’s license, hasn’t even started his junior year at Nottoway High School, and already has a full scholarship offer to play NCAA Division I football.

NUTCRACKER AUDITIONS

Dance It Out, located at 124 South Main Street in La Crosse, will hold auditions for a December production of The Nutcracker in South Hill. Many roles are available.

ANOTHER ALBATROSS ON #7

College-bound Jay Carr of Blackstone has become the second golfer this year to record a score of double eagle “2” at Nottoway River Country Club’s par-5 seventh hole.