Jeff Sparks is tackling a big learning curve competing in the Late Model Stock Car division at South Boston Speedway. Sparks competed in the Mid Atlantic Street Stock Series. Last season he competed ...

Malcolm Forrest “Bock” Glass of Scottsburg passed away Monday, May 5, 2025 at the age of 68. He was born in Halifax County March 19, 1957 to Frances Short Glass who survives and the late John Joseph ...

Oliver Henry Adams, 86, of Nathalie, passed away peacefully Monday, May 5, 2025. Born Dec. 31, 1938, in Hartford, Conn., Oliver lived a full and spirited life marked by his love for cars, animals, ...

Robert Lee Patton of Alton passed away Monday, May 5, 2025 at the age of 71. He was born in Paterson, N.J., March 19, 1954 to the late Robert Patton and Mary Kleespie Patton. Robert was a member of ...

The Mecklenburg County High School varsity boys soccer team beat Halifax County 1-0 Friday in a closely contested match. The ...

Mecklenburg County is sending five teams of young anglers to the Bassmaster National Championship after the teams scored top finishes in the Strike King Bassmaster High School and Junior Series ...

Property owners near a proposed solar project in Chase City have reportedly received a fake “good neighbor agreement” that was made to look as if it was issued by solar developer Longroad Energy ...

A Clarksville couple has gained the unanimous backing of the Halifax County Board of Supervisors for a bed and breakfast inn and exotic animal exhibit that they are seeking to establish at one of the ...

A Mecklenburg County grand jury handed down indictments against 18 individuals on April 22, including four individuals on drug related charges. Indictments are not findings of guilt. They are a ...

What happens when you combine high-tech ambitions with a hamster-wheel energy grid? You get a mix that makes no sense at all — which pretty much sums up Mecklenburg County’s schizophrenic approach to ...

I was thrilled to get a summer job as a busboy at my favorite place in the world — Lake Tahoe — in June 1960. What a life, residing in a cabin amid pine trees beside an enormous lake surrounded by ...

Helen Harris Andrews, age 89, of South Hill, passed away Thursday May 1, 2025.  She was a retired employee of Virginia Quilting.  Mrs. Andrew’s is survived by her daughter, Darlene Harris Coffey of ...