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Meet Local Author Jeanne Grunert at Book Signing Event

Meet Local Author Jeanne Grunert at Book Signing Event

Staff Report Local author Jeanne Grunert will be signing copies of her novel, I Believe You, and her new novella, The Last Run of the 6:01 at Baines Books…

AARP Awards Grant to Habitat for Humanity

AARP Awards Grant to Habitat for Humanity

By Crystal Vandegrift, Staff Writer FARMVILLE – On Wednesday, September 27 officials with AARP presented the Farmville Area Habitat for Humanity with a grant for $6,000. The…

Lancers Come to Phenix Elementary

Lancers Come to Phenix Elementary

Recently at Phenix Elementary School, the student body had the opportunity to meet Elwood, the mascot of the Longwood Lancers.  Along with several members of the basketball…

Sweet Treats & Great Reads

Sweet Treats & Great Reads

On Saturday, October 7 the literary/arts club of Randolph-Henry High School will have a bake sale from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. This event will take place…

Supervisor Weston Announces Candidacy for Re-Election

Supervisor Weston Announces Candidacy for Re-Election

Warren Weston, Board of Supervisors Wylliesburg/Red Oak representative, has announced that he will seek re-election this fall. “First of all, I would like to say thank you…

Achieving my Goal, The Ick Factor, and Chunky Dunkin’

Achieving my Goal, The Ick Factor, and Chunky Dunkin’

I just achieved a personal goal and I am rather pleased with myself. A few years ago I had a little incident where my blood pressure was…

Autophobia – Fear of Abandonment

Autophobia – Fear of Abandonment

Do you become attached to others too quickly?  Or, the opposite, do you avoid relationships because you are afraid of being dumped?  Do you end relationships even…

Joyce Vassar Moon Obituary

Joyce Vassar Moon, age 82, of Saxe, Va., passed away on Saturday, September 30, 2017.  She is survived by two daughters, Shannon M. Stanley (Butch) of Charlotte…

Betty Mae Whirley Obituary

Betty Mae Whirley, age 71, of Keysville, Va., passed away on Monday, October 2, 2017. Betty was born on April 19, 1946, to the late James Samuel…

Selma “Ma” Trogdon Ward Obituary

Selma “Ma”  Trogdon Ward Obituary

Selma “Ma” Trogdon Ward, 91, widow of John “Pa” Wesley Ward, Sr., passed away Tuesday, September 26, 2017.  Born in High Point, N.C., she was a resident of…