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Book Fair

Book Fair

The Fuqua School Readers Club recently held its annual book fair at the Barnes & Noble store in Chesterfield Towne Center. The book fair is held each…

Simple Machines

Simple Machines

Recently, the fourth and fifth grade students at Fuqua School created a Simple Machine Amusement Park. The objective of this science project was for students to design…

Recording Southside VA Quilting Heritage

The Virginia Consortium of Quilters, the statewide quilt guild, is looking for your quilts. Volunteers will be photographing and recording information about local quilts and their makers…

Facilitation Skills Training Offered by Virginia Cooperative Extension Office

Within businesses, industries, organizations and communities, people are asked to move projects forward and make things happen. But team members are frustrated and discouraged when meetings are…

Opening Game Day

Opening Game Day

CCRA Set to Kick off Basketball Season This Saturday The Charlotte County Recreation Association will kick off its first game of the 2014 basketball season on Saturday,…

Marshall Atkins Tucker, Drakes Branch, 91

Marshall Atkins Tucker, Drakes Branch, 91

Marshall Atkins Tucker of Drakes Branch passed away peacefully January 6, 2014, surrounded by family at his daughter’s home in Farmville.  He was born in Drakes Branch…

Peter Charles Micken, Jr., Farmville, 71

Peter “Pete” Charles Micken, Jr., 71, passed away on December 26, 2013 in Farmville, Virginia.  He was born in New London, Connecticut on January 4, 1942 and…

Cause for Concern

Editor, Recently I talked with some railroad construction workmen here in Keysville. They mentioned an upcoming March decision on the possibility of shutting down the Clover power…

Obamacare v. Obama’s Care: Symbolism v. Reality

Obamacare v. Obama’s Care: Symbolism v. Reality

President Obama, his family and his staff have great health coverage. There are on-call doctors, house-calls (White-House calls) and it is all free. This is reasonable. Obama…

Dadgum cold…

Dadgum cold…

We just heard on the radio that some guy named Artic Vortex is raising Cain all over the country. Whoever he is, here in Stump County it…