Wednesday, March 25, 2026
A damaging storm that swept through Nottoway County last Monday night (March 16th) is being called a “straight line wind event” by Nottoway Emergency Services Coordinator Buddy Hyde. Hyde said...
Supervisor John Roark says he continues to be “overwhelmed” by community support and prayers as he continues to recover from a stroke he suffered in Feb. 2025. Roark missed Thursday...
Nottoway Supervisors are indeed at liberty to divulge information marked “confidential attorney client privilege,” but such a release must be approved by the full Board. That’s the assessment of Board...
IT ONLY TAKES A SPARK IN DRY, WINDY CONDITIONS For the second straight year, downtown was “blazing” after suspected sparks from a smoker ignited dry, dormant Bermuda grass in the...
All in ‘clean’ fun, the Courier-Record this week unveils a new feature, “Courier Record AI Adventures,” where we use Artificial Intelligence to make fictitious photos look realistic and which make...
A Nottoway taxpayer doesn’t like what he sees when it comes to driving habits of various law enforcement officers and also said some members of the emergency squad are using...
Visitors attending Thursday’s Nottoway Board of Supervisors meeting heard the blowing noise of an air scrubber throughout the three-hour meeting. County Administrator Steve Bowen said of the device that was...
Governor Abigail Spanberger (center) paid a visit Thursday to the Governor School of Southside Virginia at SVCC’s Alberta campus. She was joined by state Secretary of Health Marvin Figueroa (in suit to right of Governor)....
This year the United States will celebrate its Semiquincentennial -- a big word that means “half of 500 years.” This year marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! Across the United States, numerous...
The Warren Firm, a personal injury law firm based in Charlottesville, is offering a $2,500 Hard Work Pays Off Scholarship to graduating high school seniors from the follow- ing Virginia counties: Appomattox, Charlotte, Lunenburg, Nottoway,...
Margie Nevins opened Nottoway Office Services in 1981 and Saturday night received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce. Margie was praised in a nomination letter for being “a pioneer, a professional,...
Rylee A. Wilkerson of Nottoway County recently was named to the President’s List (4.0 GPA) for the Fall 2025 semester at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC. Rylee is a 2023 graduate of Kenston Forest...
Members of the Lunenburg-Nottoway Retired Teachers Association (RTA) hosted a District D meeting of the VRTA on March 9th in Victoria. ABOVE FROM LEFT: Ruby Ingram-President, Mary Jean Overman, Gloria Pinckney, Carolyn Newbill, Rose Ann...
Many Nottoway taxpayers are waiting with baited breath for March 31st -- or shortly thereafter. That’s when we’ll get the...
Mind your own business, Page! Dear Sir: Town Councilman Chris Page goes on Facebook and sticks his nose into things...
The Governor has four options upon receiving a bill: sign it, veto it (which can be overridden by a two-thirds...
AFFORDABILITY? When we went into this past General Assembly session, Democrats were talking about ending the car tax, lowering power...
WILBORN AND WINGFIELD AMONG TOP FINISHERS Nottoway 6th grader Chance Wilborn made history Saturday by becoming the first Nottoway youth wrestler ever to reach the state podium. Wilborn took 5th place (the top six medal)...
Nottoway High School’s JV girls’ basketball team won the James River District Championship, holding-off Central of Lunenburg, 36-32, in a physical nailbiter last Wednesday on the Lady Cougars’ home court. Nottoway enjoyed a 19-12 lead...
Nottoway Cougars Wrestling Club members Gauge Wingfield (left) and Chance Wilborn recently qualified for the 2026 Virginia Wrestling Association’s (VAWA’s) Kids Folkstyle State Championships, to be held in Prince William this coming Saturday, Feb. 28th...
Crewe Primary School principal Lloyd Page announced the names of students making Honor Roll (All A’s & B’s) for the 2nd quarter grading period. 1st Grade Brantley Allen, Keagan Andrews, Jamir Artwell, Andrew Atkins, Carson...
Kenston Forest School junior, Graham Sledd, last week scored his 1,000th career basketball point for the varsity Kavaliers. Sledd achieved his feat last Tuesday, Feb. 17th, during the semi-finals of the Virginia Colonial Conference tournament...
