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Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative Urges Students to Set High Goals in Learning

Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative (MEC) emphasizes the importance of reading, math and science classes, and all other school subjects by participating in a number of educational programs that…

Appomattox 1865 Foundation Lantern Tours Scheduled for September 26, 27, 28

The Appomattox 1865 Foundation, the Friends of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park, is pleased to announce that the Lantern Tours held last year were a…

VDOT Employees Get Power Line Safety Demo

VDOT Employees Get Power Line Safety Demo

Personnel from Southside Electric Cooperative (SEC) recently conducted a power line safety demonstration for Virginia Dept. of Transportation (VDOT) employees at the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds.  SEC Safety…

SVCC Nursing Students Pinned

SVCC Nursing Students Pinned

Southside Virginia Community College recently celebrated the Pinning Ceremony for students in the Practical Nursing Program on August 14 at the John H. Daniel Campus in Keysville.…

Washing Towns Effect on Stump County

Washing Towns Effect on Stump County

Stump County doesn’t usually get excited about anything much less what happens in Washing Town. What those Republicrats and Democans do is just more than we can…

Good Enough For Us, But Not for Them

By Averett Jones, Southside Messenger Editor The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn’t leave enough of that…

Robert Severn Ponton

Robert Severn Ponton went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, August 14, 2013, at the age of 69.  He was preceded in death by his father…

Community Memorial Healthcenter and VCU Massey Cancer Center Open the Area’s First Radiation Treatment Center

A large crowd of community citizens, healthcare leaders, local politicians and officials gathered at Community Memorial Healthcenter (CMH) on Wednesday for the official grand opening celebration of…

The Audacity of Hope

The Scope of HOPE Community Services HOPE Community Services has been embroiled in controversy for the last several months since The Southside Messenger covered an illegal closed…

P.E. County Admin, Attorney Mistaken on Personal Property Tax Law

At the August 13, 2013 Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Don Gantt made a motion to hold a public hearing to lower the personal property tax rate…