The Mecklenburg County High School girls’ basketball team split a pair of games in the Appomattox High School Holiday ...

Edwin Reddemann “Ed” Boelte of Browns Summit, N.C., passed away Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, at the age of 86. Born in Halifax County, July 20, 1939, Ed was the son of the late August Ernest Boelte and ...

Tickets prices at South Boston Speedway will remain the same as last season for its NASCAR Weekly Series events, including Championship night. Advance adult tickets will be $12. Tickets at the gate ...

Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal single vehicle crash that occurred Thursday, Jan. 1, at 12:30 p.m. on Interstate 85 northbound at the nine-mile-marker in Mecklenburg County. A 2008 ...

Stop butt-dialing my doctor’s emergency line. I don’t think she likes it. (Turn off the screen on my phone.) 2. Use more voice commands. Why type everything? And those of us over 60 aren’t used to ...

As 2025 comes to an end, the United States finds itself mired in a morass of political confusion, corruption, and governmental malfeasance at the hands of a self-aggrandizing megalomaniac bent on ...

DeZachire Radell Goode was arrested by the Lunenburg County Sheriff’s Office Dec. 25 in connection with a suspected arson incident last week involving a residential fire and multiple acts of violence ...

Admittedly, 2025 wasn’t the most tumultuous year in local news, but sometimes it felt that way as Mecklenburg County and its residents found themselves buffeted by developments across the nation and ...

A much-anticipated public hearing on a proposed RV park near the Cuscowilla subdivision outside of Boydton has been postponed again at the request of the project applicant, Olivia Fechter. Fechter is ...

A local development group is moving forward with plans to build duplex homes in La Crosse amid a shortage of affordable housing throughout Mecklenburg County. Tiffco, LLC, led by Mike Dotti and Kevin ...

Kathy Davis Bowen, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, and friend, passed away Monday, Dec. 29, 2025, at ...

William Carl Ligon, age 76 husband of Sylvia Reese Ligon, passed away Friday, Dec. 26, 2025. He was the son of the late Henry Howard “Jack” and Hilda Sizemore Ligon, a 1969 graduate of Bluestone High ...