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Richmond Fed chief offers economic forecast with area visit

Richmond Fed chief offers economic forecast with area visit

July 1, 2022

Will inflation ease up? Is there an end in sight for supply chain disruptions that have kept items off store shelves? Is the country headed for a recession? Those were among the topics addressed this week by Tom Barkin, president and CEO of the Federal...

Visitation suspended at Baskerville correctional facility as virus cases spike

July 1, 2022

With 18 new COVID-19 cases among the inmate population and another three among staff at Baskerville Correctional Center, the Virginia Department of Corrections announced on Thursday it is suspending in-person and video visitation at the facility through July 9. DOC also suspended visitation at Cold...

Public hearing set on revised Halifax election districts

Public hearing set on revised Halifax election districts

June 30, 2022

The county’s redrawn election districts will come before citizens in an August 1 public hearing before the updated map is sent off to the Virginia Attorney General’s Office for final review and approval. The reappointment map adopted by the Halifax County Board of Supervisors in...

Rock festival lineup takes shape, revenue to follow

June 30, 2022

Halifax County expects to reap a half-million dollar tax windfall from the Blue Ridge Rock Festival when the massive concert event takes place at Virginia International Raceway Sept. 8-11. County and state agency officials continue to make plans for the multi-day concert, which is coming...

For the 4th of July, no shortage of fun

June 30, 2022

Independence Day is just around the corner. Halifax County offers three public events to celebrate the Fourth of July — Scottsburg’s annual parade and picnic on Saturday, and on Monday, the Elmo July 4th community parade and Destination Downtown South Boston’s nighttime music and fireworks...

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Richmond Fed chief offers economic forecast with area visit

Richmond Fed chief offers economic forecast with area visit

July 1, 2022

Will inflation ease up? Is there an end in sight for supply chain disruptions that have kept items off store shelves? Is the country headed...

Public hearing set on revised Halifax election districts

Public hearing set on revised Halifax election districts

June 30, 2022

The county’s redrawn election districts will come before citizens in an August 1 public hearing before the updated map is sent off to the Virginia...

Rock festival lineup takes shape, revenue to follow

June 30, 2022

Halifax County expects to reap a half-million dollar tax windfall from the Blue Ridge Rock Festival when the massive concert event takes place at Virginia...

For the 4th of July, no shortage of fun

June 30, 2022

Independence Day is just around the corner. Halifax County offers three public events to celebrate the Fourth of July — Scottsburg’s annual parade and picnic...

Sodexo contract renewed

June 30, 2022

The Halifax County School Board on Monday approved a one-year food services contract with Sodexo, the current food services vendor for county schools, despite opposition...

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Visitation suspended at Baskerville correctional facility as virus cases spike

July 1, 2022

With 18 new COVID-19 cases among the inmate population and another three among staff at Baskerville Correctional Center, the Virginia Department of Corrections announced on...

Mecklenburg County social services director retires

Mecklenburg County social services director retires

Gregory steps away after 40-plus years on the job; former co-worker returns to area to lead agency

June 29, 2022

More than four decades after joining the Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services office in Boydton, longtime agency director Sandra Gregory is retiring. “There comes...

Slippery slope: 1,000 ft. water slide set for Clarksville in 2023

June 29, 2022

Mecklenburg County Tourism Coordinator Tina Morgan announced plans this week to bring an urban slide to Clarksville for a two-day summertime event in 2023. The...

Mecklenburg School Board ends budget year with tiny surplus

June 29, 2022

Mecklenburg County Public Schools will end the fiscal year with $23,277 in unspent funds out of a total budget of $110 million. The unspent funds...

22 suspects indicted by grand jury

June 29, 2022

A Mecklenburg County grand jury handed down indictments against 22 individuals on June 21, including Jakai Ahmir Simmons of South Hill for attempted second degree...

Sports

Dixie Majors host state tournament this weekend

Dixie Majors host state tournament this weekend

June 30, 2022

The Halifax County Dixie Majors start the 2022 Dixie Majors State Tournament Friday at the Halifax County High School baseball field. Halifax, Clarksville, Charlotte County, and Amelia head the tourney which runs through Sunday. Halifax faces Charlotte in the second game Friday at 7:30 p.m....

Packed track expected for Saturday’s race

48 cars expected for late model race

June 30, 2022

The largest entry list in years, a new format, a dazzling post-race Fourth of July fireworks display and a free Friday night Fan Fest are all part of South Boston Speedway’s premier NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Late Model Stock Car Division event, the...

Looking back at the era of Coach Klocker

Looking back at the era of Coach Klocker

As Bluestone sports comes to an end, thoughts turn to football in the early days under the late Carl Klocker

Mike Moseley Mecklenburg Sun | June 29, 2022

With Bluestone High School closing soon and Mecklenburg County High School taking its place, nostalgia of all sorts lingers among former Baron student-athletes. A big part of Bluestone’s past was revisited this week with the recent passing of Carl Klocker, who was the first coach...

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Dixie Majors host state tournament this weekend

Hatcher named all-state

Barnes, Payne earn Piedmont District pitcher of the year honors

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Looking back at the era of Coach Klocker

Bluestone softball goes out with a season to remember

Preparing for MCHS football

Obituaries

Obituaries / News & Record

Emmett Apple Tuck, Jr.

June 30, 2022

Emmett Apple Tuck Jr., a resident of Virgilina, died Sunday, June 26 at the age of 88. He was a direct descendent of John Tuck,...

Mary Long Francis

June 30, 2022

Mary Long Francis of South Boston died Sunday, June 26, 2022 at the age of 82. Born in Halifax County on April 3, 1940, she...

Ann Elizabeth Wyatt

June 30, 2022

Ann Elizabeth Wyatt of South Boston died on Monday, June 27 at the age of 73. Ms. Wyatt was born in Halifax County on Jan....

Obituaries / Mecklenburg Sun

Christine Watterson Crowe

Christine Watterson Crowe

June 28, 2022


Christine Watterson Crowe, age 96, of Chase City, died Wednesday, June 22, 2022. She was born March 21, 1926 in Chase City, and was the...

William James Mann

William James Mann

June 28, 2022

William James “Willie” Mann, affectionately known as “Papa” by his family, died Sunday, June 26, 2022 at the age of 90. He was born June...

Ruby Fitz Tollerson

Ruby Fitz Tollerson

June 28, 2022


Ruby Fitz Tollerson, wife of the late Claude Talmadge Tollerson, left for her heavenly home on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, at the age of 90....

Entertainment

Xanadu’s male lead thrives at The Prizery


Roller skates, Greek myth, disco …. oh my!


Fun for the Fourth: Where to go for holiday…


Market opens, Civil War battle celebrated and berries…


Rehearsals bring Prizery Summer Theatre back to life


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