Columns & Opinion

Folks sure are ready for Spring. I’ve never seen the golf course as busy in early March as I did this past Sunday. It was a great day and it looks like the warm-up will continue this weekend. We “Spring Forward” this Sunday, so there’s more daylight coming, too. *** It appears that CBS6 and the Blackstone Chamber of Commerce […]

Last year the Town of Crewe urged the Nottoway County Board of Supervisors to approach the courthouse decision with transparency and objective analysis. Since then, the Board has moved through the PPEA process and selected a firm. That is a significant step, but the public has yet to be given basic information needed to understand what is being proposed, what […]

Nottoway High School’s baseball team in March 1986 included these six seniors. STANDING FROM LEFT: 1st baseman Tee Dooley, pitching hopefuls J. W. Buchanan, Doug Fisher, and Mark Ellett; 3rd baseman/left fielder Oakie Robertson. Shown squatting is catcher Chuck Dews.

They’ve earned our support Dear Sir: Nottoway County has some serious financial problems, and there are elections next year for the Board of Supervisors. This is a volatile situation where quick decisions could be counterproductive to getting Nottoway County in a healthier financial position. Do not be too quick to judge the current Supervisors and then want them out next […]

WIndy conditions in March 1986 — 40 years ago — were ideal for kite flying. Nine-year-old Tunstall Flippen was flying his kite on South Main Street as he came home from school.

Here’s some good news: Whatever your thoughts are about letting willing land owners place industrial solar panels on their acreage, the Nottoway Board of Supervisors held a very civil public hearing last Thursday night. While some speakers said the proposed Rocky Ford project was causing hard feelings between neighbors and even between family members, the dialogue was courteous. Chairman Bill […]

How can anyone oppose voter ID? Dear Sir: I want to try and make the case for why we all should have voter IDs. Honestly, I think this is how citizens should acquire them. It should be made free or offered at low-cost to everyone — say, $10-20 — but no more than that. However, in order to acquire one, […]

Glen “The Glide” Pettis goes up for two more points during this Feb. 1986 Nottoway High basketball victory over Park View, 78-64. Pettis, then a freshman, came off the bench 40 years ago and scored 8 points in the Cougars’ varsity win.

It was 1975 — just over 50 years ago — when Marine Pvt. Allen A. Rhone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Ghee of Rt. 2, Kenbridge, completed Infantry Training School at the Marie Corps Base in Camp Pendleton, CA. He received specialized instruction in infantry weapons and tactics and was featured in our July 10, 1975 edition.