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“Who’s #1?” – Defunct Movie Theaters

Back-to-back New SouthsideCentral features… it’s your lucky day! This article kicks off the “Who’s #1?” series where we’ll countdown (countup?) things that fit a topic. If you’ve got any ideas for some “Who’s #1?”, let us know.

Today, we’re going to tell you “Who’s #1?” in the category of “Defunct Movie Theaters”. They were great […]

TYOB!: Calling Graham Cinema

Yep, it’s time to debut yet another new occasional feature on SouthsideCentral. TYOB! stands for “Things You Oughta Be”… quite simply, it’s “things you oughta be doing”. (We’re awaiting the Grammar Nazis on this phrasing). When we find something we like, we’ll tell you about it using a TYOB. It could be a website, a […]

Danville City Council Race – Update #1

Four Danville City Council seats will be up for grabs on May 4th. Since the Register & Bee has started the ball rolling with an article about the race, let’s start drilling down into some scenarios and play with some speculation.

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Photos from today’s Governor’s Inauguration!

Kim White, Halifax County’s Commonwealth’s Attorney, is LIVE! at Bob McDonnell’s inauguration at Richmond and she’s sent in some great photos! We hope you enjoy looking at them. Thanks, Kim!

UPDATE: Video now included.

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“So that happened” down in South Hill…

Ever seen the movie “Vantage Point”? It tells a story from the viewpoints of multiple people, each with their own motivations. If you’d like to see a local version of “Vantage Point”, it happened this week in South Hill during a Q&A session with the seven candidates for the Republican 5th District nomination. Let’s try […]

McPadden steps out of the clown car and into contention

Mike McPadden (Republican candidate for the 5th District nomination) was in Danville on Friday night. Gotta admit, I was pleasantly surprised at his professionalism and knowledge.

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Fundraiser for six-month-old Nathan Moran on Saturday (1/16)

A good friend of SouthsideCentral is taking the time to help out a local six-month-old baby who’s fighting cancer. Let’s get out there and help!

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Mike McPadden visits Danville on Friday night

Mike McPadden, one of the candidates for the Republican 5th District nomination, will be in Danville on Friday night. SouthsideCentral hopes to be there LIVE!

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PhotoCentral: Feed The Birds!

Jena sent us some photos to remind you to not forget our feathered friends during the winter. 🙂

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Thumbs! (1/11 edition)

Let’s get some “Thumbs” moving in this edition!

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Danville’s making a move for LabCorp?

Here’s a story that’s made no news in the Southside VA area… yet.

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Joe The Plumber is checking people out by using an FBI friend?!

Or so says Bill Hay…

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BlogNetNews, Hello!

(done in a Larry King voice, of course) We’re now listed on BlogNetNews, the leading aggregator of blog sites in the USA. Thanks, Vivian Paige!

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The Littlest Brave

You’re going to love this story! Sarah’s one of our contributors here at SouthsideCentral and her son just had a feature article written about him. Toby’s a 4 year old, 34 pound wrestling machine.

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Triangle Florist gets national recognition

Bill Granger, the owner of Halifax’s Triangle Florist, gets his name and business in “Martha Stewart Weddings”.

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Attempted armed robbery in Virgilina on Friday night

Nothing was taken as the robbers took off running.

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PhotoCentral: Joe the Plumber visits Danville

Our thanks to the awesome Gracie Gunnell for getting these photos!

Laurence Verga, a candidate for the 5th District Republican nomination, hired out the guy known as “Joe the Plumber” to come campaign for him. They made an appearance at Danville’s Mary’s Diner at 9 AM today. Here are some photos from the event.

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Happy Trails, Virginia Lottery TV Drawing Shows!

Tonight’s your last chance to watch the drawings.

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Whitt Clement makes some more money off of Southside!

He might have bailed out of Danville, but he’s still getting rich off of Martinsville.

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R&B editorial takes a questionable shot at outgoing Jim Dooley.

They’ve been called out on it by another reader, so let’s take a look at it.

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Robert Hurt plays a strategy card.

Gotta admit, I called this one as soon as he proposed a set of five debates…

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Some thoughts about the Danville police shooting.

By now, you’ve heard that a Danville police officer shot & killed a suspect who pointed a gun at him. Let’s talk about it.

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Have you followed @sosidecentral today?

We haven’t shamelessly plugged our Twitter feed lately, so here we go! Want to get the latest goodies from SouthsideCentral (and assorted other stuff as well)? We’ll tell you how.

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(Temporary) Happy Trails, Danville’s Museum!

If you want to go see Danville’s Museum of Fine Arts & History, forget it (until March 2nd)!

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Things you may have wanted to say…

I’m sure that all of us have actually wanted to say what’s in this police report.

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