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BOARD BAILS ON BOWLING ALLEY LEASE Nottoway Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Collins said, “We’re gonna be real quick.” Last Thursday night’s special meeting of the Board lasted only 47 seconds. As nine citizens held protest signs in the Emergency Operations Center, the Board quickly voted 5-0 to vacate the County’s signed agreement with a registered sex offender to lease […]

This was the scene downtown — facing north from Blackstone Baptist Church — shortly before 12 Noon Sunday, Jan. 25th, as freezing drizzle was beginning to fall on top of two inches of snow and sleet. The temperature was 15 degrees, and area residents were bracing for a potential major ice storm, perhaps reminiscent of the Feb. 13-14, 2021 disaster […]

JUDGE HITS ‘MUTE’ ON DEFENDANT A New York City man, who’s charged with making threats and harassing various employees of Blackstone-based Citizens Bank & Trust Company, has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. The ruling on the status of 55-year-old Kenneth Woodson was made Friday, Jan. 16th by Judge Kenneth Blalock in Nottoway General District Court. Woodson remained incarcerated at […]

A Blackstone resident who was wanted here to face drug charges filed last year has been apprehended in Pennsyvlania. Lt. Tony Mayton said that 44-year- Derrick Jermaine Lawrence of Nottoway Avenue was arrested last Friday, Jan. 23rd, after being stopped by Pennsyvlania State Police. “He is currently being held on charges by them and, after that, the process of extradition […]

Nottoway County’s Teacher of the Year is a 2016 Nottoway High graduate who says she’s surprised and honored by the award. Madeline Duffy, who’s taught Special Ed at the high school for seven years, was chosen by the division’s leadership team. She’s Teacher of the Year at the high school and prevailed in the field that included Teachers of the […]

SPECIAL MEETING SET FOR 6:30 PM THURSDAY Nottoway Supervisors have called a Special Meeting for 6:30 p.m. this coming Thursday night, Jan. 22nd. The location: Nottoway’s Emergency Operations Center, for what has become a political ‘911’ for the Board after the County last week signed a lease agreement with a registered sex offender to operate the Nottoway Lanes bowling alley. […]

A well-known Nottoway County man, who last Fall became a Facebook and TikTok celebrity for a viral video in which he declared, “Lock’em Up!,” pleaded No Contest last week to an amended charge of Assault & Battery. Norman Hubert “Normie” Taylor, Jr. was sentenced to 30 days in jail — with all 30 days suspended — coningent upon good behavior […]

INTRUDER FROM R.I. BROKE-IN BY SHATTERING FRONT WINDOW In a stunning development, all charges have been dismissed against a Rhode Island man arrested here in a bizarre home invasion here more than a year ago. Defendant Patrick O’Garr, 29, of Providence, Rhode Island, had been charged with Breaking & Entering (felony), Destruction of Property, Imper- sonating a Police Officer, and […]

‘JED’ SAYS CO. WILL DISPLACE 40 AT PICKETT Two Nottoway Supervisors were annoyed Thursday night by a speaker who, for the second straight month, gave only a first name, “Jed.” “Let me ask you this,” Supervisor Bo Toth asked the speaker. “Do you know what’s going on in our country with illegal immigrants — which I don’t support entirely — […]

Supervisors Dicky Ingram (left) and Bo Toth wanted Thursday night speaker to give his last name, with Toth even suggesting “Jed” could be an illegal immigrant: “We need to be more like Arkansas and get them out. Maybe we need to pass an ordinance in Nottoway County that you have to be a citizen of the United States.” Ingram also […]