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A Mayor of Two Cities: George Craghead Corbin

Travis Hackworth tells us another story of Danville history…

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“NO!” to City Retiree Bonus Payouts.

Danville City Council will start the process on paying a bonus to City of Danville retirees on the pension plan during Tuesday’s meeting.

It’s tough to have to say it, but SouthsideCentral is strongly against this action.

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The Eagle Has Cracked

RandomThoughts articles sometimes lead to interesting discussions. One recent one led to Danville’s Masonic Temple building, so I did a little recon work today…

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INSIDE the Jefferson Court Apartments – Part 1

We’ve been working on the continuing story about the Jefferson Court apartments that were condemned by the City of Danville a few weeks ago.

SouthsideCentral has shown you a lot of details from the outside, and we’ve been working with the Inspections department of the city to show you more of the unlivable conditions.

We’re […]

RIFA – LIVE! (8/11/2014)

We’ve cleaned up the article, added more commentary and some bonus photos. This article is complete.

The Regional Industrial Facilities Authority is having their monthly meeting today at noon, and SouthsideCentral is here LIVE! The meeting starts at noon, and our LIVE! coverage should start around 11:50AM

We’re at the Danville Regional Airport to see […]

Danville City Council – LIVE! (8/7/2014)

One LIVE! meeting done (I wish I could have stayed longer…) and now we move to the Danville City Council meeting for more LIVE! coverage. Tonight’s meeting was postponed from the normal Tuesday because of the National Night Out ceremonies. The meeting starts at 7PM and you’ll want to refresh the page often. That way, […]

Danville School Board – LIVE! (8/7/2014)

Editor’s note: This article is now complete. We’ve added more commentary and a lot of bonus photos.

We’re LIVE! at the Danville School Board meeting tonight. We may have abbreviated coverage because we also have Danville City Council’s meeting at 7PM. Be sure to refresh this page for the latest photos, happenings and commentary. We’ll […]

PATHS – LIVE!

We’ve completed this article with more notes, observations and commentary. We’ve also added lots of bonus photos.

We’re here at Piedmont Access to Health Services on Main St. in Danville. Senator Bill Stanley will be here. Hit refresh for the latest photos and happenings.

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TROTS: Those Jefferson St. condemned apartments

Editor’s note: The Register & Bee has now disabled their comment section on the story I referenced in this article. Gee, wonder why?

Let’s do another “The Rest Of The Story” to get you more information than a Register & Bee story gives you. I’ve been working on this story for a few days but […]

Recapping Tuesday’s governor and cabinet visit…

Whew. It took 2 days to totally complete all the additions to our LIVE! coverage, but it was worth it. SouthsideCentral brought you everything we could about Tuesday’s events and we really appreciate the kind words about our coverage. You’ve now got the most photos of any local media and you saw them first during […]

BREAKING: Sky Valley Foods relocating to Danville

Updated and completed with some photos from the event courtesy of Arnold Hendrix, the city’s public information officer.

Sky Valley Foods will be relocating their operations to Danville from Yanceyville, NC. They will also be expanding their production.

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Secretary of the Commonwealth Meeting – LIVE!

We’ve completed this article with some more information and photos.

Our fifth (and final?) LIVE! event of the day takes us to Jake’s on Main restaurant for a session with Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney. He’s going to talk about the process for getting appointed to Virginia’s boards and commissions.

Refresh the page often […]

River District Tour – LIVE!

We’ve now completed this article and added lots of additional photos for bonus coverage. We’ve also added more commentary about the event.

 

We’re now LIVE! at the Golden Leaf Bistro with Governor Terry McAuliffe as he starts a tour of the River District led by Danville Mayor Sherman Saunders.

Refresh the page often for […]

Governor’s Economic Development Roundtable – LIVE!

We’ve completed this article with editing and a lot of bonus photos. I’m sorry for the phone photos at the top part of the article. Something was on the lens and I never noticed… but hey, slightly blurred photos are better than none.

We’ve moved across the road to the RCATT building for our third […]

Governor’s Cabinet Meeting – LIVE!

We’ve completed this article by touching up the writing and adding photos.

We move on to LIVE! coverage of Governor Terry McAuliffe’s cabinet meeting here at the Institute. This is the first time in recent history that the entire cabinet has been in Danville and this meeting makes it even more rare. We’ve got the […]

“State of the Region” Address – LIVE!

We’re LIVE! at the Institute for the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce’s “State of the Region” address. Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jessie Barksdale and Danville Mayor Sherman Saunders will give speeches about the progress of the region this morning.

Refresh this page often for the latest happenings, commentary and photos!

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We’ve got him this time!

Unless we don’t.

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Register & Bee goes pay-to-read… again.

It’s going to cost you to read yesterday’s news at GoDanRiver. Again.

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Outsider/Insider Art Show – LIVE!

We had a terrific time at tonight’s art show. Enjoy the photos, folks!

We’re LIVE! at 600 Craghead Street for tonight’s “Outsider/Insider Art Show”. Come on down to Davis Storage Warehouse #4 and enjoy the beautiful artwork. Click here to learn more about tonight’s art show, and refresh this page often to get the latest […]

Outsider/Insider Art Show – Today!

We’re back to full speed and we wanted to tell you about our LIVE! coverage plans at a very cool event coming up today. I hope to see you at the “Outsider/Insider Art Show” in Danville tonight. It’s at 600 Craghead Street, and that’s Davis Storage Warehouse #4.

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They’re still trying to scare you, folks.

The threat to the Dan River from the coal ash spill is gone. Actually, it never was there in the first place. That’s not stopping an environmentalist group from still trying to scare the hell out of you.

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“But…but…he lied to us!”

Let’s blame it on West Virginia.

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PhotoCentral: “Music on Main” (7/17/2014)

If it’s happening, SouthsideCentral will try to be there! We missed the first “Music on Main” at downtown Danville’s JTI Fountain Plaza but we got there for Thursday night’s concert. Awesome weather, awesome place, awesome music. Enjoy the photos!

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Danville School Board LIVE! (7/17/2014)

If you want LIVE! coverage and LIVE! opinions and analysis of what’s happening at tonight’s Danville School Board meeting, you’ve come to the right place.

Tonight’s meeting starts at 6PM and we’ll start our SouthsideCentral coverage a little earlier than that. Acting superintendent Kathy Osborne has promised us wi-fi connectivity so we’ll be able to […]

BreakDown: Danville City Council (7/15/2014 Meeting)

We’ve started analyzing what happened (and other observations about things) at governmental meetings that we do LIVE! coverage on, so let’s look at what happened at Tuesday night’s Danville City Council meeting.

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