The Dinwiddie Monitor • 5th February 2020

'Lead Well Summit' cultivates next wave of Dinwiddie leaders

Saturday’s Lead Well Summit served to enlighten attendees and spark a conversation about how the community can collectively unite and lead across a number of sectors all for the betterment of Dinwiddie County and those who call the county home.

The Prince George Journal • 14th August 2019

Region celebrates opening of Tree Time adventure park

Last Friday, dozens of people joined Lesly and John Bogue, the owners and operators of Tree Time, under the cooling canopy of Scott Memorial Park just off Courthouse Road to herald the opening of the new 30-plus-acre tree-based adventure park and trails, one of Southside Virginia’s first elevated tree courses.

The Dinwiddie Monitor • 15th May 2019

Generals Become Supervisors: DHS students engage in civic duty during Government Day

Hours before the Dinwiddie Board of Supervisors would head to the county government center to act on the FY2020 budget, a tradition for Dinwiddie High School government class returned for another semester as a several dozen Generals became supervisors for a day tasked with the decisions that their elected counterparts face on a yearly basis as part of the annual Government Day exercise.

The Prince George Journal • 15th May 2019

Region’s law enforcement honor the fallen at memorial breakfast

Last Thursday morning, hundreds of police officers, sheriffs, deputies, and other law enforcement agencies descended on the City of Petersburg but, it wasn’t an emergency that brought the agencies together but a collective desire to remember their fellow men and women in blue who lost their lives in service to their communities.

The Dinwiddie Monitor • 10th October 2018

Generations unite in Carson on mission to end Alzheimer's

The family and friends of the late Nola Harvell gathered at their Carson ballpark in her honor for their second annual Alzheimer's awareness walk as they not only walked laps around the field and raised funds for the Alzheimer's Association, but also sought to bring attention to a disease that has robbed millions of their precious memories, while turning mothers, daughters, sisters, and brothers into caregivers.

The Dinwiddie Monitor • 15th August 2018

Region reflects on deadly '93 tornado during 25th anniversary

Southside Virginia reflects on the Aug. 6, 1993 tornado that killed four people and left a lasting impact through the visible scars that remain 25 years later.

The Prince George Journal • 28th March 2018

Va. Education Secretary visits PG's Rowanty Technical Center

As workforce development continues to be a key part of the state's initiatives to grow the Commonwealth's economy, last Tuesday afternoon proved to be a continued commitment to those goals as Virginia's education secretary toured Carson's Rowanty Technical Center with local school leaders, spending time with instructors and students while learning more about the trades the future members of Virginia's workforce were being taught within the school's walls.

The Prince George Journal • 8th November 2017

Smiles, high-quality service highlight Tri-City's Publix opening

Months after the red marquee of Martin's Food Stores was removed from the building, Publix unveiled the fruits of their labor through the spring and summer of this year in the form of a brand-new shopping experience inside their location as anchor of Colonial Heights' Colonial Square shopping center to eager shoppers from across southern Virginia.

The Sussex-Surry Dispatch • 22nd February 2017

One year later, recovery, healing continues following Waverly tornado

Feb. 24, 2016 transformed the community of Waverly, the county of Sussex and much of the commonwealth as a line of dangerous and life-changing thunderstorms swelled into cells that spawned tornadoes across a seven-hour period of time. One year later, the community continues to heal.

11th June 2014

Harris talks decision to step down as administrator in October

Having been back in the county for nearly a year, County Administrator Thomas Harris surprised some at a meeting late last month when he announced that he would be resigning from the top job in the county, effective October 1.

30th April 2014

Virginia Politics Runs Through The Wakefield Shad Planking

Thousands of people have walked the grounds of the Wakefield Ruritan Club in Wakefield for the Shad Planking. As the 66th anniversary of the event passed last week, a sense of tradition was the festivities' underlying theme...

The Sussex-Surry Dispatch • 26th March 2014

A Mother's Love: Katina White Lives While Holding Tyquan's Memory Close

Last Thursday would have marked a traditionally joyous time in the life of a young man, transitioning from the teenage years and into young adulthood by celebrating his 20th birthday. Tyquan Johnson was unable to celebrate that milestone with...