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These renderings by SOLEX Architecture show how the former YakAttack building on North Agnew Street in Burkeville will appear after some $2.1 million worth of renovations are completed. Work on Nottoway’s new animal shelter and adoption center has begun and is expected to be completed in about six months. The Nottoway CARES group has raised $640,000 — and counting — […]

DEADLINE TO APPLY 5:00 P.M. FRIDAY Political seas are turbulent at Blackstone Town Hall, but three men — and possibly a fourth — believe they can calm choppy waters on Elm Street by serving as this community’s next Mayor. Council President Eric Nash, who’s served on Council for 15 years and who presided last Monday night after the Aug. 16th […]

Kenston Forest football stand-out, Dayton Williams, Jr., will take his gridiron skills to Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA, where he hopes to march into end zones for the NCAA Division III Bullets as he did relentlessly at Larry Clary Field here. A signing ceremony was held last week in the Kavalier gym. Kenston Head Coach Joe Kaiser said Williams is […]

Blackstone native Jay Carr has written a storybook ending to his already-impressive collegiate golf career. Playing for Berry College in Rome, Georgia, the son of Ron & Dr. Anne Carr finished tied for second place over the weekend in the Southern Athletic Association’s Conference Championship. Competing at Greystone Golf Club in Dickson, Tennessee, Carr shot rounds of 72, 71, 67 […]

WHO WILL BECOME TOWN’S NEXT CEO? Lawrence Benjamin Green insists that a comment he made in January about a female Town employee doesn’t meet the definition of sexual harassment. Blackstone’s ex-Mayor also says the employee’s complaint was so poorly handled by Town Manager Philip Vannoorbeeck, it is the Town Manager’s actions that deserve Council’s immediate attention and full scrutiny. Green, […]

CASE-BY-CASE REVIEW; COUNTY LIMIT IS RAISED TO 170 MW A debate that’s raged offand on in Nottoway for several years took a new twist Thursday night. The Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to loosen restrictions on industrial solar sites in rural areas. In so doing, officials ignored an 8-0 vote two nights earlier by the Planning Commission, which recommended no […]

BUT ALL ENDS WELL AFTER INGRAM ASKS FORGIVENESS Nottoway Supervisor Dicky Ingram was called-out Thursday night — and later apologized several times — for “berating” a solar industry representative. During Thursday night’s public hearing on loosening restrictions on solar, Ingram grilled Ms. Bobbi Rodriguez of Ampliform. She said she represents 25 Nottoway residents “who believe that solar is a prime […]

The Easter Bunny enjoyed a ride Saturday afternoon in Blackstone Vol. Fire Department’s $1.8 million ladder truck with firefighter Matthew Oakes so he could drop dozens of eggs behind the fire station on Church Street. Among those enjoying the festivities were two-year-old Willow Wright (below left) and Amanda Hawthorne of Blackstone. BOTTOM PHOTO: Tramizhael Bragg, age 6, of Blackstone.