Local
Are crime rankings accurate?
Q:How true are online community crime rankings? Such was the question one reader posed to The Herald regarding an Internet site that rated Farmville as ...
Rob Chapman, Author at Farmville
Farmville
Caboose Moved
Farmville’s caboose has a new home. Workers moved the bright red caboose, long a fixture next to the passenger train station on West Third Street, ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, August 13, 2015 6:15 pm
Farmville
Bomb threat charge dropped
Prosecutors have decided not to prosecute 33-year-old Dominique Natoya Whitehead, who was charged following a May 7 report of a bomb threat at Trinity Mission ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, August 13, 2015 6:10 pm
Lifestyle Main
Growing season for farmers market
It’s a beautiful Saturday. Vendors are aligned under the covered area of Farmville’s Community Marketplace on North Street. Here, one can buy grass-fed beef, earrings, ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, August 13, 2015 2:29 pm
Local
Can citizens record public meetings?
In the middle of a discussion on the success of the school’s Advanced Placement (AP) courses, Prince Edward County School Board member Beulah Womack put ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, August 11, 2015 4:39 pm
Farmville
Turn lane planned for Main Street
Relief is on the way for motorists struggling to turn left off of Main Street at Milnwood Road. Town officials are planning to widen the ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, August 11, 2015 4:25 pm
Education
New PE elementary teachers join staff
New Prince Edward County Elementary School staff includes, from left, third grade teacher Carlina Fane; fourth grade teacher Amanda Lacombe; second grade teacher Mary Nunnally; ...
by Rob Chapman, Friday, August 7, 2015 12:06 pm
Education
New PECHS teachers announced
Prince Edward County High School Principal Zoltan Kerestely, front left, welcomed new high school teachers including mathematics teacher Carol Gee; English teacher Mariah Monk; social ...
by Rob Chapman, Friday, August 7, 2015 12:03 pm
Education
New PE middle school teachers announced
New Prince Edward County Middle School teachers include, front row, special education teacher Jennifer Bailey; middle row, English teacher Taiwo Owens; reading remediation teacher Tiffany ...
by Rob Chapman, Friday, August 7, 2015 11:59 am
Farmville
National Night Out builds relationships
Longwood Avenue was closed to vehicular traffic late Tuesday evening. A fire truck was parked in the middle of the road, and children stood in ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, August 6, 2015 1:35 pm
BREAKING NEWS
Buffalo Shook demolition underway
Demolition workers were having at it Wednesday. The former Buffalo Shook Co. building on Farmville’s West Third Street is coming down. Walk2Campus, as reported in ...
by Rob Chapman, Wednesday, August 5, 2015 12:58 pm
Education
Group gets involved, supports county schools
It was born in the living room of a parent with kids in Prince Edward County Schools. Joined by the common threads of wanting to ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 7:15 pm
Farmville
Little library encourages reading
There’s a collection of books on a shelf in the community room at Parkview Gardens. See a book, take it and read it, then return. ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 7:10 pm
Church & Community
National night out kicks-off
Farmville residents Dwayne Scott and daughter Da’Niyah shared a friendly greeting with McGruff the crime dog Aug. 4 as part of National Night Out. Farmville ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 4:52 pm
BREAKING NEWS
Farmville’s Sears store to close
Farmville will soon have one less retailer. Sears Hometown Store, locally owned and operated on South Main Street, is advertising a “Store Closing” sale in ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, August 4, 2015 1:55 pm
Farmville
Moton Museum adds mural
Joy Cabarrus Speakes, a student at Robert Russa Moton High School in 1951, remembers the old tar-paper buildings constructed to help with overcrowding. “What I ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:55 pm
Education
Melton heads Fuqua School
“No,” John Melton says, when asked if he ever envisioned returning to Farmville. “No … but I didn’t envision where I would be.” Still, the ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, July 30, 2015 12:43 pm
Columns
Support YADAPP, teens
It is the opening ceremony for the annual Youth Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention Project conference. Inside, teens from across the state are raising the ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2:13 pm
Farmville
Charleys Restaurant sues landlord
A Farmville restaurant has sued its landlord — furniture merchant Richard F. “Dickie” Cralle Jr. — for $18 million, alleging that plans for a competing ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1:28 pm
Education
LU builds residence halls
There’s a cleared area behind ARC dorm on Longwood University’s campus, and university officials know just what to put there. Not one, but two new ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 1:26 pm
News Main
Farmville turn lane confusing
QUESTION: Is the left turn lane at Main and Fourth Street (northbound on Main) for turning into the little driveway directly across from Fourth? Or ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 12:55 pm
Local
Tuesday morning crash blocks traffic
A Tuesday morning two-vehicle crash involving a 1994 Cadillac and a 2003 Ford Taurus temporarily blocked U.S. Route 15 traffic. State Police on the scene ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, July 28, 2015 12:10 pm
Local
PE Farm Sold To Aid Patrick Henry Family Services Purchase
PRINCE EDWARD — The late Reid Foster, moved when he heard the Patrick Henry Boys and Girls Homes Choir sing in 2008, donated 275 acres ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, July 23, 2015 4:59 pm
Local
PE IDA Awaits Loan Repayment
PRINCE EDWARD — The Prince Edward Industrial Development Authority (IDA) approved a $50,000 unsecured loan to the Manor Golf Course in 2011. The goal was ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, July 23, 2015 4:57 pm
Education
Work Proceeds On School Buildings
PRINCE EDWARD — A formula of wet evenings and dry days has made for a successful school construction recipe. Progress on roof replacements and a ...
by Rob Chapman, Thursday, July 23, 2015 4:40 pm
Local
Single Vehicle Crash In PE
Volunteer firefighters, rescue squad members, county deputies and the State Police responded to this single vehicle crash late Monday afternoon off of U.S. Route 460 ...
by Rob Chapman, Tuesday, July 21, 2015 2:10 pm
Education
PE School Board Changes Meeting Time
PRINCE EDWARD — County school board members, at their July organizational meeting, voted to hold most of their monthly meetings later in the day in ...