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From The Editor’s Desk: Some solar decisions don’t make sense
There comes a point where common sense has to win, where you weigh the pros and cons and ...
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News Briefs: Pamplin shooting case ongoing, worm moon appears
No one was injured but there was plenty of damage done Sunday afternoon after a Pamplin shooting. Prince ...
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Dominion grant project helps fire departments around the region
It’s not cheap to outfit a firefighter with turnout gear. For just one set, you’re looking at more ...
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Group to hear about Olde Dogg Manor
Visitors to the Curdsville Community Center will hear from Michael Snyder about his Olde Dogg Manor operation in ...
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Democrat candidates for 5th Congressional District seat hold forum
For Gloria Witt, it just doesn’t make sense. The President of the Amherst County NAACP and newest candidate ...
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Carter celebrates 100 years
Mrs. Annie Edmonia Bolden Carter turned 100 years old on March 3 and was honored by family and ...
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Buckingham Raiders earn trophies at Qualifier meet
The Buckingham Raiders were in Lee County, North Carolina for their third and final Best of the Best ...
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Prince Edward, surrounding area under ‘red flag warning’ today
There’s good news and bad. On the one hand, Buckingham, Cumberland and Prince Edward counties are under a ...
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FACES food pantry gets help from Centra grant
FACES Food Pantry recently received a $25,000 grant from Centra to support efforts to provide food to address ...
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Buckingham school officials ask for money to refurbish greenhouse
The greenhouse at Buckingham County’s Career and Technical Center will be getting a much-needed facelift soon, thanks to ...
Lifestyles
Inmates train to become recovery specialists
Nine inmates at Buckingham Correctional Center recently became the first individuals incarcerated in a Virginia Department of Corrections ...
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Curdsville Center gets new president
The Curdsville Community Center has a new president for 2024. That would be Mark Allman, a 2015 graduate ...
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Joseph Cunningham case sent to trial by grand jury
Joseph Frank Cunningham will face a jury trial later this year. A grand jury in Amherst County returned ...
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Buckingham-Dillwyn Garden Club helps update library’s seed bank
Seeds and spring sowing are under consideration at the Central Virginia Regional Library in Dillwyn. Working to organize ...
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Buckingham County High senior signs with Emory and Henry
Liberty Faith Johnson is headed to Emory and Henry College in the fall. The Buckingham County High senior ...
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Freedom libraries open in Buckingham County. Where are they?
The doors opened in the middle of last week. National nonprofit Freedom Reads officially found a place to ...
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Electric cooperatives withdraw complaints over broadband bills
In February, electric cooperatives in Central and Southside Virginia brought out the pitchforks. From ads in the papers ...
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Buckingham sheriff offers 5th District endorsement
We’re a few months away from the 5th District Congressional primary and local officials are starting to choose ...
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Raiders compete at Best of the Best qualifier
The Buckingham Raiders were at the Bedford D-Day Memorial for their second Best of the Best Raider Qualifier ...
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Now the Poultry Cooperative has launched, how does it operate?
Now that the Central Virginia Poultry Cooperative has been launched, how does it work? How do farmers join, ...
Lifestyles
Buckingham High team competes in Horse Hippology contest
On Friday, Feb. 9, the Block and Bridle Horse Hippology Contest was held on the campus of Virginia ...
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Prince Edward, Buckingham collect nearly all tax debt
Some area treasurers prove true Benjamin Franklin’s famous saying that taxes are one of two things in the ...
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Sales tax bill passes the Assembly, with a twist. What changed?
It took several years, but Prince Edward County officials finally got their wish this week. On Monday, Feb. ...
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Early voting wraps up, primary on Tuesday
If you want to cast a vote in one of Tuesday’s primaries, you still have a couple days ...
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Sheriff Kidd details what happened with Star Motel standoff
It started as a fight between two people who knew each other. That’s how Buckingham County Sheriff Billy ...
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‘It’s going to be expensive’: Federal rule will hit all EMS budgets
It’s going to be expensive. That’s what Buckingham County Emergency Services Chief Cody Davis sees it. And he’s ...
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One bill succeeds, another fails: Assembly makes mining decisions
There is apparently one thing the entire General Assembly can agree on: cyanide should not be used in ...