News

ENROLLMENT SLIDE

After three days of classes, enrollment in Nottoway County Public Schools stood Friday at 121 students fewer than what was projected in the current budget.

SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SOUGHT

Nottoway Commonwealth’s Attorney, Terry Royall, has requested a special prosecutor to review sworn testimony by County Administrator Ronnie Roark.

One More!

Push-ups were the rule recently at Nottoway Gator youth football practice. Namion Brown pushed himself to the limit at Blackstone’s Wrigglesworth sports complex.

Sports

‘We’ll continue to improve’

Nottoway’s varsity football team was held scoreless but allowed only one touchdown Friday evening in a home scrimmage with Sussex-Central, which is returning most of its starters from last year’s R

WILL GATORS FIND GLORY AGAIN?

The Nottoway Gators’ youth football teams will begin their regular seasons this Saturday at Amelia, with the Flag game starting at 10 a.m., and Minors, JV, and Varsity action to follow.

CHAMPION GOLFER

Hogan Whitlow played his best golf when it mattered most and won the Piedmont Junior Golf Championship.

Columns & Opinions

Charlottesville: Evil violence

Sunday morning as I drove to church, this saying came to mind: “To err is human, to forgive is divine.”

By Frank Ruff

At least three GOP Senators are

It’s hard to understand why the Republican Party (including our Representative Dave Brat) has been frantic to kick 23,000,000 Americans (more than the entire population of Florida and slightly less

By H. Bruce Brandon

Why Does Randi Weingarten Think More Freedom Is Racism?

Randi Weingarten, president of the nation’s secondlargest teachers union, the American Federation of Teachers, used a speech last week to brand the education choice movement as racist.

By Star Parker

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