Chase City held a community meeting last Tuesday to solicit input on the housing and local needs for the B Street Railroad Avenue community. The town plans to apply for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (VDHCD) to add…
Clarksville’s Lamppost Decorating Contest has officially begun! Voting is open now through October 18 at 10p.m. Be sure to go to the Clarksville Lamppost Contest’s event page to like the pictures of your favorites in each category. One like=one vote. This year’s categories are Halloween, Can…
We offer on-demand virtual urgent clinic visits to adults in Virginia from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., daily. No appointment is required. All virtual visits with VCU Health System providers are conducted online from the comfort of your home using a smartphone, tablet or computer. To download our app …
Sentara has launched a new public dashboard that tracks the number of confirmed COVID-19 patients by hospital location. This tool is to help the public understand trends of COVID-19 hospitalizations in your community. The data is updated daily, Monday – Friday. Data from these dashboards can…
Attorneys for the Town of South Hill and the South Hill Volunteer Fire Department have determined that no employment laws are being broken at the department.
The Mecklenburg County Planning Commission voted unanimously to deny the construction on the proposed “7 Bridges Solar Project” in a Sept. 30 meeting.
The Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Appomattox Field Office and the Lunenburg County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old South Hill male.
Governor Ralph Northam announced September 30 an allocation of more than $7.7 million in Growth and Opportunity for Virginia (GO Virginia) grants to advance community economic recovery efforts. This funding will support 14 projects focused on economic diversification, workforce development, …
The Commonwealth reports that there have been 878,518 cases of and 12,955 deaths due to COVID-19 recorded statewide. While there have been a few breakthrough cases reported in fully vaccinated individuals, most newly reported cases occur with unvaccinated people. Of the over 5 million Virgin…
The Mecklenburg County Youth Bassmasters and Mecklenburg High School Anglers are gearing up to compete in Friday and Saturday’s 2021 Mossy Oak Fishing Bassmaster Junior National Championship. This year’s championship will be hosted at Carrol County’s Thousand Acre Recreational Lake in Huntin…
You know that colleague who everyone relies on because they’ve been there the longest? The one who knows everyone, does everything and can fix anything? That person is Donna Overton, a nurse at CMH Occupational Health and Wellness. She started her nursing career at Community Memorial Hospita…
The Chase City Police Department is still searching for missing Chase City native, Chris “Hunt” Rawlings. He was last seen on Fourth Street in Chase City on Monday, Sept. 27 around 8:30 p.m. wearing a dark hoodie with a grey hood, grey sweatpants, and black shoes.
For only the second time, antique bottle collectors will be able to buy, sell, trade and display antique and vintage bottles, glassware and more at the South Boston — Halifax County Museum of Fine Arts and History.
Southside Electric Cooperative today announced the launch of a nationwide search for a new chief executive officer. Current President and CEO Jeff Edwards has announced his retirement, effective July 2022, closing a 37-year career at electric cooperatives in North Carolina and Virginia. He s…
In the last joint meeting of the Southside Planning Commission and the Clarksville Town Council it was decided that moving forward with the Stolarz Terrace Apartments construction would be on hold so that public opinion on the matter could be heard.
Parents cautioned that there may not be enough drivers for afternoons
Announced on September 23, Southern Virginia Vegetable Packing, LLC has partnered with Brunswick County Industrial Development Authority to construct a new, 45,000 square-foot, $4.2 million produce processing and packing facility.
On June 8, Circuit Court Judge J. William Watson Jr. ordered the Town of South Hill to provide Midlothian Attorney Richard Hawkins with documents that were requested from the Town under the Freedom of Information Act back in 2019.
Thursday, September 16th, the Southern Piedmont Master Naturalists hosted a guided walk-and-talk along the Tobacco Heritage Trail featuring Dean Cumbia, Director of Forest Resource Management with the Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF). Mr. Cumbia has a long history in forestry, having j…
EMPOWER Broadband and the Southside Planning District Commission (SPDC) have submitted a grant application to the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development’s Virginia Telecommunications Initiative (VATI) to provide universal fiber-to-the-home broadband coverage, over a 36-mont…
Based on the SOL pass rate of 60.46%, Mecklenburg County is ranked 50th out of 132 school divisions in the state of Virginia.
Historic Plantation Trail Hike
Families Embracing Autism Together (F.E.A.T) was recently awarded a Microsoft Community Empowerment Fund grant. With the grant, F.E.A.T. hopes to create an inclusive employment opportunities within Mecklenburg and surrounding counties.
In-person early voting has begun for November’s General and Special Elections. Candidates are vying for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, 61st District State Delegate. Requested absentee ballots have also begun to be mailed out.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it will soon publish Requests for Applications (RFAs) for new grant programs - the Pandemic Response and Safety (PRS) Grant program and the Seafood Processors Pandemic Response and Safety Block Grant program - to support agricultural …
Nelson Hardy Allman to Thomas Ownby, lot 104 section C Lacrosse district for $297,500.
The Southside Planning District Commission is proposing to change their membership for each county. Mecklenburg would go from having eight members of a 28 member Board to having five members of 15 member Board.
Effective immediately, VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital (VCU Health CMH) is making changes to non-urgent, elective appointments to safely continue caring for patients during an increase in COVID-19 cases in our region. Urgent and emergency surgeries will continue on an as-needed basis.
Rose’s Shopping Center has also been purchased
Mecklenburg County residents will see an increase in their personal property taxes in the coming weeks as invoice preparations begin.
There have been possible outbreaks of COVID-19 at three of the eight schools in the county. Mecklenburg’s case load has surged since the first week of September with over 200 new cases reported since September 1.
Strong Men and Women in Virginia History Exhibition will be on display at the Boydton Public Library, 1294 Jefferson Street. Boydton, VA from 9/15/2021 – 10/23/2021. Please call 434-738-6580 for more information.
Twice a year, Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) Auxiliary awards hospital employees with a $500 scholarship toward furthering their education through the Tree of Love - Elizabeth T. Moseley Scholarship Fund. The Scholarship is funded by community donations made to the “Tree of Love” in memor…
Upon researching the compensation for mayors and town council members of nearby towns and counties, Jeff Jones found that the average pay for mayors is $376/month and for council members the average is $201/month.
Kwaman Stevenson—a Boydton native and all-around camera artist—has wrapped up the shooting for his second film as director, writer, and actor.
South Boston Police Department say that a man wanted for the murder of Clarksville native Mahalia Townes, 26, was arrested in North Carolina last Wednesday.
Due to the increasing incidents of COVID cases in the region, VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital (VCU Health CMH) will adopt revised visiting policies as of 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021. Adult patients are limited to one adult visitor per day, including in the Emergency Departme…
Mecklenburg County Public Schools Superintendent Paul Nichols opened a video message to students, staff, and parents by saying that this year will be very different from the last.
Earlier in March Virginia lawmakers voted to use $700 million of federal pandemic relief funds to implement a broadband expansion plan allowing for high-speed Internet to be access in every household.
County offices are closed to the public as COVID numbers are back on the rise.
COVID-19 numbers continue to spike nationwide and statewide as variant cases rise. Mecklenburg County has now seen 2,722 total cases. Effectively, 1 out of every 11 residents in the county have contracted the virus at some point. An average of thirteen new cases are reported nearly every day…
Hurricane Ida—now downgraded to Tropical Depression Ida—hit Louisiana at approximately 5p.m. Sunday, August 29. The hurricane was rated a Category 4 when it hit land, but it began to rapidly weaken as it moved further inland.
Twenty-five graduating high school seniors across Southside Electric Cooperative’s service area received Southside Opportunity Fund scholarships this year.
August 25, Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, as part of a larger system announcement, shared that they have expanded their employee vaccination policies to include the expectation that all team members and medical staff members will be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 18, 2021. …
The Mecklenburg County Grand Jury handed down 16 indictments in July and August. An indictment is not an admission of guilt but a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime.
A crowd of local supporters showed up at August’s Board of Supervisors meeting to support David Varner, owner of Lake Country Internet, in his quest to receive support from the Board and obtain state grant funding.
As COVID numbers continue to rise with the arrival of new variants, VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital is partnering with the American Red Cross for a community blood drive.
With Governor Northam’s latest announcement requiring state employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a lot of people are faced with making a difficult decision. To those state employees who have had COVID, it makes sense to them.
Mecklenburg County remains in the red for community transmission on the Virginia Department of Health’s COVID-19 website. Between 8 and 10 new cases are reported countywide every day. Thankfully, no new deaths linked to the virus have emerged at this time.
For the past two years, Sheri Sparkman has led the Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) Foundation board as chairperson. She has been an active board member since 2015. The CMH Foundation is a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 organization that was formed to build continuing support for VCU Health CMH throug…
In 2019, the Town committed to spending up to $3 million towards the Highway 58 Bypass Arterial Project in partnership with VDOT. The three phase project will focus on the East Atlantic Street and Country Lane intersection.
