Sports

ANOTHER SOUTHSIDE FOR NRCC

Blackstone golfers break par for weekend, sweep individual honors

YANCEY SETS RECORD WITH EIGHTH FINISH AS MEDALIST In dominating fashion, Nottoway River Country captured another Southside Men’s Golf Association championship Sunday, posting a cumulative twounder par team score (992) for the weekend at Lunenburg Country Club. Host team Lunenburg settled for second place, 24 strokes back at 1,017. Last year’s winner, South Hill Country Club (1,023), finished third. Four […]

Strong Showing

The Nottoway Coach Pitch All-Star baseball team (ages 8 and under) played five consecutive days in high heat and humidity and finished runner-up in the District Five tournament held June 20-24th in Farmville. It’s among the best finishes in a district tournament for a Nottoway Coach Pitch All-Star team. The runner-up Nottoway boys went 3-2, with both losses coming to […]

JUNIOR GOLFERS SHINE AT NRCC

In an exciting five-hole playoff that could serve as a preview of more friendly battles to come, rising Central of Lunenburg senior Parker Hite fended off rising Nottoway senior Carsten Beck last Thursday when the Southside Piedmont Junior Golf Association made a tour stop at Nottoway River Country Club. Both golfers were deadlocked after two-over-par, ninehole scores of 38 in […]

Mini-Golf Library at

A mini-golf course will be open at the Blackstone Library for one night only — this coming Friday, June 27th from 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. All are welcome, and Summer Reading participants who attend will receive a sticker to add to their passports.

EXTRA GOLF IN CREWE MEMBER-GUEST

Eagle in sudden death play-off decides battle of ‘young guns’

Rising Nottoway High School senior Colton Lewis and guest Ty White of Emporia eagled the second hole of sudden death Sunday to win Crewe Country Club’s Member-Guest golf tournament. In sweltering heat and humidity, they defeated rising Nottoway freshman Cam McDaniel and his guest, recent Kenston Forest graduate Will Johnson of Blackstone. They say golf is the game for a […]

COUGAR SPORTS STAND-OUTS

Fourteen Nottoway High School student-athletes were recognized Thursday night by the School Board for various accomplishments in Spring Sports. BASEBALL Trent Hayes: 2nd Team All- District Center Fielder. SOFTBALL Cheyenne Estep: 1st Team All-District Pitcher and 2nd Team All-Region Pitcher; Taylor Atkinson: 1st Team All-District Outfielder and 2nd Team All-Region Outfielder; Katherine Gravely: 2nd Team All-District 2nd Base and 2nd […]

CPA TO THE RESCUE

A $400,000 “discrepancy” between the Town’s bank accounts and general ledger — which had Councilman Nathaniel Miller suggesting a State Police investigation — apparently has been resolved. The issue, which delayed delivery of the Town’s annual audit report until the 11th hour, is addressed in a June 13th letter to Town Manager Philip Vannoorbeeck from CPA John Montoro, Director of […]

43 PERSONNEL ACTIONS

Nottoway County Public Schools

Nottoway School Board members Thursday night approved 26 appointments, 15 resignations (one of whom rescinded their departure and isn’t leaving), one retirement, and one termination. APPOINTMENTS Tonya Lee, Custodian, parttime, Crewe Primary School. Halie Rousch, Custodian, part-time CPS. James Watson, Health & Physical Education Teacher, Nottoway High. Kathy York, Art Teacher, Nottoway High; Nigel Scott, Substitute Teacher. Dr. Maurice Smith, […]

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BOARD REFRESHER

Nottoway School Board member Bill Outlaw says the Board needs to remember and adhere to “Governance Norms and Protocols” that it adopted previously and unanimously. (Related story, page 3) Outlaw read aloud several of those items at Thursday night’s meeting: “‘We will hear each opinion and ultimately act as one. We will speak candidly and courteously to each other and […]


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