Saturday, December 20, 2025
The Lunenburg County Republican Party has announced winners of its 2025 Scholarship Raffle. Both major prizes were donated to help raise funds for the local party’s scholarship program. Dickie Jeter...
Two drivers in Blackstone were convicted last week of violating the Town’s noise ordinance in October. A 19-year-old male of Mineral was fined $50 and ordered to pay $23 in...
The Courier-Record office will be closed next week (Dec. 22nd-26th) for annual Christmas vacation. We will still print and distribute an edition next Tuesday, Dec. 23rd. The deadline for that...
Burkeville Volunteer Fire Department’s Auxiliary recently donated $22,000 -- the largest amount ever raised by the Auxiliary -- to the department. Fire Chief Brian Weltch (left) accepted the check from...
A North Carolina teenager, who allegedly was clocked driving 93 mph in western Nottoway County, had to call his father to pick him up after allegedly driving on a suspended...
Members of one of this community’s oldest congregations -- including the Sheriff of Nottoway County -- are without their place of worship at Christmas following the fiery destruction Saturday night...
The Nottoway County Public School division plans to raise starting teacher pay next year by 16% -- from the current $46,000 per year to $52,000. Such a move -- including...
A Louisiana man last week was fined $300 and ordered to pay $99 in court costs after being convicted of driving 90 mph in a 60 mph zone in Nottoway...
HELP (Helping Every Life Prosper), a local benevolent organization of the Blackstone Ministerial Association, recently raised more than $4,000 in a raffle. Mayor Lafayette Dickens was a special guest last Thursday and drew names of...
A Nottoway resident Thursday night didn’t get an answer to his question posed to the School Board. Ray Jennings of rural Burkeville asked how many students are sent out of the county and educated elsewhere...
Nottoway County Public Schools is facing estimated expenditures of more than $3 million to bring all of its facilities into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The division is considering another $7.7 million+...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed Amelia County native, Jo Anne Scott Webb, General Partner of Scott Timberland, to the State Air Pollution Control Board. She also serves on the Board of Blackstone-based Citizens Bancorp of...
The historic Gables building at the former Virginia United Methodist Assembly Center was all decked-out for the holidays 15 years ago. This photo was taken during Blackstone’s last White Christmas -- the afternoon of December...
The Gables (right foreground) has sat idle since the Virginia United Methodist Assembly Center (VUMAC) closed in 2016. But now the 1915 building is being planned for renovations by The Inn at Blackstone, a 113-room...
You want the good news or bad news first? So far this school year, student disciplinary infractions are down by...
Let’s pay them all to leave Dear Sir: It is inconceivable that we have a certain percentage of legal “citizens,”...
Gail Wells of Blackstone was among those competing in the December 1997 Holiday Home Decorating contest sponsored by the Blackstone...
It was December 1982, and Nottoway High School had just bought a computer so county students could begin to enter...
Kenston Forest’s JV girls’ basketball team defeated Central Virginia Christian School last Thursday in Dillwyn, 49-35. The JV Lady Kavaliers came to life after scoring only six points in the 1st quarter against the JV...
Nottoway High School senior Olivia Shorter, daughter of Richard & Jennifer Shorter of Burkeville, last week accepted an offer from Sweet Briar College in Amherst County to play softball for the Vixens. She plans to...
Kayleigh-Ann Clapper, 19, bagged this nice eight-point while hunting Monday afternoon, Dec. 1st, with her “Paw,” Alan Hardaway, on private land in Nottoway County. Kayleigh Ann dropped the buck at 4:20 p.m. from 75 yards...
“Apple turnovers taste good -- basketball turnovers, you tend to choke on.” That’s how one Kavalier fan described the varsity girls’ 43-25 home loss last Tuesday, Dec. 2nd to Isle of Wight Academy. Kenston trailed...
Kenston Forest’s middle school boys’ basketball team trailed by only three points at halftime, but 4th quarter turnovers spoiled any chances of winning its season-opener against Isle of Wight Academy last Tuesday, Dec. 2nd. The...