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Teamwork gets a bunch of idiot kids off the road and into jail.
UPDATE: We’ve got the information from the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office about how this incident started.

With any luck and a small bit of justice, this lawsuit will get tossed out quickly.

Halifax County rescuers saved a woman and two children from a potentially deadly situation today.

Nothing was taken as the robbers took off running.

We’ve had a lot of people wanting to know what’s going on in the case of the former South Boston policeman. Once again, it’s been continued.

Congrats go out to Crystal Yeatts, Kim Lester and Will Hamilton for working together and getting this scumbag out of society.

Make your way to South Boston on Saturday (12/19) and come to Berry Hill’s Christmas Open House.

The South Boston Police Department is busy at work trying to catch the people responsible.

You’re not going to outrun the law, folks.

What’s the difference between Victoria’s Secret and the “Modeling & Simulation Center” located in Halifax County’s Riverstone Technology Park? Victoria’s Secret has models that work.
Seriously, what’s going on with that project?

On Monday, November 16th, the Halifax County Board of Supervisors & the South Boston Town Council held a joint meeting. Curtis Waskey made a presentation during the public comment segment regarding the issues of the termination of Woodson Hughes. Here is complete transcript of Mr. Waskey’s remarks.

At the current prices, stealing diesel fuel is like stealing cash.

It’s been a while since we’ve checked in with the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office. Let’s see what they have going on.

K, I, S, S, I, N, G (insert your choice of body parts here). It seems that we’ve made a “climate of intimidation”. Who knew?

(Originally Published on: Oct 30, 2009 @ 19:27)
Update #2: To reflect the Halifax County Chamber of Commerce’s reply to the update.
Update #3: Issuing retraction on “candidates being told not to say anything negative”
What if they held a forum for the candidates in Halifax County and nobody showed up? Well, it was damned close to that. [...]

One of our good friends (and Woodson Hughes supporter) thought that people would like to see the employee policies of the Halifax County Library system. We agreed with him, so here you go!

Halifax County has four unopposed races for the Board of Supervisors and three contested races for the School Board. SouthsideCentral has listened to all of the candidates and we are ready to make our endorsements.

South Boston’s got the fun, safe and charitable place to bring your family on Halloween!

We’ve updated this posting and you’ll find the new one at this link. We’ll leave the comments on this thread available so that people can continue to read them.
Technical note: We’ve found a plug-in that will redirect you automatically when an article gets updated. We won’t have this ugly problem again.

The community support for Woodson Hughes continues to grow and here’s a way that you can get involved.

Barbara Speece just called me. But she wouldn’t say it was Barbara Speece. How bizarre.
Hey, Barbara!

There have been some large numbers thrown around about the amount of overdue fines that were waived, so let’s hear from Woodson Hughes on this subject…

Thanks to our roving reporters in the field for the updates!
The library board started their meeting at 4:30 PM today. Let’s see what went on using our famous random notes.

Let’s go over a few random thoughts & observations about the Halifax County librarian that “resigned” last week.

(Originally Published on: Oct 22, 2009 @ 22:24)
Well, Fine! Or really it’s about the lack of fines…

(Now updated at this permalink.)
Well, Fine! Or really it’s about the lack of fines…

It’s been a while since we checked in with Stan Noblin’s “boys in brown”…

Back in the days of HalifaxCentral (yeah, that blog is still there!), we reported on a former South Boston police officer that was arrested and charged with four felonies of “indecent liberties” and two misdemeanors of “contributing to the delinquency of a minor” back in March. Let’s see what’s happening in that case…

Our friend, Barry Tuck, attended tonight’s candlelight vigil in Halifax. It’s a time for somber remembrance and eternal vigilance.

No, it’s not a new cartoon or comedy act. Come to think about it, maybe it’s both.