The South Boston Farmers Market has been awarded $78,825 by the Virginia Tobacco Commission to expand the downtown location.

Halifax County Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday arrested 29 year old Timothy Brad Puryear in connection with a breaking and entering at Edmondson’s Cleaners in South Boston that occurred over five years ago, in April 2005.

A 40-year-old Halifax man, Thomas Dale Anderson, was indicted this week on 227 counts of possession, reproducing, selling, purchasing or displaying child pornography.

The Town of South Boston now has an updated definition of gambling, amusement centers and electronic contest devices.

Deer contributed to two motor vehicle crashes near Halifax Country Club on Route 501,just south of the Town of Halifax.

Halifax County’s representatives to the Virginia General Assembly say money will again dominate the session. Del. James Edmunds of Halifax and State Sen. Frank Ruff of Clarksville opened the 30-day 2011 session Wednesday morning facing still-considerable budget pressures and transportation woes, plus an agenda spanning privatized liquor sales to pension reform.

With the closing of schools yet again Thursday due to road conditions, it means Halifax County Public School students won’t be back in class until Tuesday of next week.