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Halifax uses assets to build disaster-relief housing for Haiti

Top, the house before being disassembled for shipment. Above, packed and ready for delivery.

05/18/12 - 9:09 am

The first prototype of an energy-efficient disaster relief home is due to arrive in Saint Marc, Haiti at the end of this month.

Halifax News

A place for cremains

Halifax’s black heritage makes PBS show

Trustees want efficiency study funds from Halifax County; Marshall to retire

Longwood president resigns due to health reasons

Standing by Trevant

Mecklenburg News

Two-car crash near Park View claims life of 76-year-old

Prepped for the prom

Call for 2¢ tax hike trips up Mecklenburg budget

Bump in the road for speed traps

Mecklenburg jobless rate dips in March

PBS finds local story of black heritage

From top, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Photo courtesy PBS.) Women in Virginia, 1910. (Photo courtesy Library of Congress.) Margarett Cooper, second from right, traces her ancestry to Susanna Speed, who sued her master in Halifax County, Va., for her freedom in 1782. She won. Cooper is pictured at an event in New York City with Gates, right. (Photo courtesy Frank Stewart/Jazz at Lincoln Center)

05/17/12 - 7:17 am Halifax

Breakthroughs in African-American genealogy play role

Assembly declines to name judges

05/17/12 - 7:15 am Halifax

Local vacancies left in limbo as legislators wrap up session

GROWN TO GROW

Artistry of Slate Seed advertising still shines

05/17/12 - 7:13 am Halifax

The inclusion of the old Hyco Store — thought to be the starting site of the Slate Seed Co. — on Preservation Virginia’s Most Endangered Historical Sites list last week prompts a look at this piece of artwork.

Halifax County trustees seek money for studies; hold firm on dismissals of aides

05/17/12 - 7:11 am Halifax > Halifax Education

Halifax County School trustees on Monday night voted to ask the Halifax County Board of Supervisors for $250,000 that the county set aside last year for the school efficiency study and curriculum audit.

J.P. Morgan scandal quashes South Boston money plans

South Boston budget elicits no comments

Rash of battery thefts reported over weekend

Lady Comets to face Franklin County for WVD tournament title

Halifax uses assets to build disaster-relief housing for Haiti

PBS finds local story of black heritage

Assembly declines to name judges

GROWN TO GROW

Halifax County trustees seek money for studies; hold firm on dismissals of aides

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