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BUT HE REMOVES SCRUTINIZED FACEBOOK POST 48 HOURS LATER District Two Nottoway Supervisor John Roark has removed a Facebook post that appeared on his page for two days and triggered speculation about its target. The post was interpreted by some that Roark was accusing a Nottoway bus driver of forwarding sexually explicit material from school property. Roark says the post […]

Saturday was the last day of the rabbit season, and these youths from Lunenburg and Nottoway counties enjoyed a successful outing, killing 14 rabbits in Nottoway. Wells Bacon is shown relaxing alongside Saturday’s harvest. FROM LEFT: JW Shepherd, Wyatt “Twinkie” Trinkle, Whit Taylor (standing), Trip Shepherd, and Channing Parrish.

BILL WILSON IS SURPRISED AT ALMA MATER A native of Crewe, who’s a long-time attorney and former member of the House of Delegates, has been honored with the David Marion Award for Legal Excellence. William T. “Bill” Wilson of Covington received the award last Fall during a meeting of the Hampden-Sydney College Bar Association. Wilson, 88, graduated from H-SC in […]

WITNESS SAYS CIA PUT CHIP INTO HIS HEAD It took a Nottoway County jury last week less than 10 minutes to acquit a Blackstone man of a felony drug charge. Daniel Allen Seamster, 35, of Blackstone was found Not Guilty last Friday, Feb. 27th, in Nottoway Circuit Court. Seamster was among nine residents indicted last Fall by a grand jury […]

IN BROAD DAYLIGHT ON NORTH WEST AVE. A Blackstone woman and her two children in the back seat were “greeted” near the town welcome sign last week by a bullet that shattered the front windshield just inches from where she was seated. The incident occurred Friday afternoon, Feb. 20th at approximately 12:30 p.m. on North West Avenue. Lt. Tony Mayton […]

‘THIS IS MY FLAG!’ No Nottoway Supervisors responded Thursday night to citizen Darrell Garber’s fiery criticism of the County’s display of a torn American flag in front of the courthouse. “This is my flag!” Garber exclaimed as the first speaker under ‘Delegations of the Public. “ It was hanging on the flagpole when I got here tonight — ripped, torn, […]

SISTER STILL HAS QUESTIONS Nottoway County’s top prosecutor says she has determined that no charges will be filed in the officer-involved shooting death of Michael Woodson. It was Woodson who last August led police on an early morning, high speed chase down Rts. 360 and south down Rt. 153. That pursuit ended when Woodson’s pick-up truck ran crossed all four […]

A Kenbridge police officer remains jailed without bond on charges of shooting the mother of one of his children and fleeing law enforcement before surrendering the next evening. Charles Aaron Stokes, 44, has retained the services of long-time attorney R. Clinton Clary, Jr. of Lawrenceville. An appearance is scheduled for March 18th in Lunenburg General District Court. The shooting occurred […]

COURT RULES FOR PAGE IN TRESPASSING COMPLAINT Chris Page prevailed in General District Court last week in his Trespassing After Forbidden complaint against School Board member Bill Outlaw. Substitute Judge Stephen Bloom ruled Wednesday, Feb. 11th that Page and special prosecutor Stewart Ball of Amelia proved their case and that Outlaw was “very aggressive and vulgar” when Outlaw went to […]