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Thumbs! (10/14/2013)

Thumbs UP! UP! and away! (maybe some DOWN!, too…)

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TYOB: “Southside Show-Biz 2013”

Nothing promotes our local business like the Chambers of Commerce do, and it’s time for the Danville-Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce to put on their premier event of the year… the Southside Show-Biz trade show. It’s tomorrow (Friday) from 10AM to 3 PM and Averett University’s North Campus. It’s a “Thing You Oughta Be” doing […]

Happy Trails, 316 Cibo!

Although the owners are going to change the business into a smaller version of their existing Brosville pizza restaurant, Downtown Danville’s streetscaping debacle has killed another business.

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Meet the new mall…

…same as the old mall. Except for 20% less stores, of course. Less Stores! More Space!

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We’re not merging, we’re just sorta merging.

LifePoint continues to add to their medical specialty of DoubleTalk…

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Thumbs! (9/15/2013)

You’ve got Thumbs! to the left, Thumbs! to the right, and we’re the only Thumber in town…

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14th District House Race – Update #1

Let’s take a look at the upcoming 14th District House of Delegates race. We’re got Danville’s Danny Marshall, a long-time incumbent, facing Danville’s Vice-Mayor Gary Miller. There’s also comic relief in the race but we’ll get to that later…

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Time Machine: (Race) Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy

Today, we’re going to do something to the local race pimping community that rarely happens. We’re going to look back at a “developing situation” that they showcased and see what was accomplished. It’s time to hop into the SouthsideCentral Time Machine.

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The Pope Is Catholic.

In other news… playground equipment doesn’t usually spontaneously combust.

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UPDATED: Danville City Sheriff’s Race – Update #1

UPDATE #1: I’ve changed some comments below to reflect reading a R&B article about Silas Crews.

Let’s keep the SouthsideCentral election theme going and take a look at the race for Sheriff in the City of Danville…

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Reviving the Belk Building

Editor’s Note: SouthsideCentral is proud to welcome Travis Hackworth as a contributor to the website. Travis is a history major (from Averett) and has a Master’s degree (from American Military University) . I’ve been very impressed with Travis’ in-depth knowledge and research of Danville’s history and I look forward to him writing more articles here […]

Thumbs! (8/31/2013)

Excuse us while we whip out our “Thumbs!”…

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Review of Danville’s “Phi-lly Cheese Steaks & Things”

I finally got the time to try Phi-lly Cheese Steaks & Things. It was very well worth the wait. Awesome food!

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Happy Trails, Web Parts LLC?

If you type in “Web Parts” and see what autocorrect tries to suggest for you, you get “Wet Farts” way down the list. Well, that’s close enough of a description of the company for me.

Our #2 entry on the “Biggest Job Announcement Busts” series of articles is making a strong move to take over […]

Who’s #1? – Biggest Job Announcement Busts – Part #3

We’re up to the biggest two Job Busts in the area. We’ve covered a bunch of them in Part #1 and Part #2 but it’s time to finish the list and find out Who’s #1! Let’s start off with a #2 that almost made the top of the list…

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Who’s #1? – Biggest Job Announcement Busts – Part #2

Continuing the saga from Part #1… We don’t stop until we hit the top! Let’s take a look at #5, #4 and #3 on the list!

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Who’s #1? – Biggest Job Announcement Busts – Part #1

SouthsideCentral has been working on a countdown of the biggest job busts that have been announced in the Southside Region in the last few years. I know I’ve missed a lot of them, but I’ve got eight of them all snarked up ready to go. Let’s get it started with #8, #7 and #6…

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Festival In The Park – 2013 – LIVE!

SouthsideCentral is heading to Danville’s Festival In The Park and we’ll be posting our observations here. Keep checking in for the latest…

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PhotoCentral: Danville Wine Festival – 2013

Danville’s Knights of Columbus service organization did it again and made the 2013 Danville Wine Festival the biggest and best of them all. We’ve got a lot of photos for you to see what happened…

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SouthsideNews: County woman killed in pedestrian accident

Editor’s Note: This was originally reported as a hit-and-run but we have retracted that part of the story.

A Pittsylvania County woman was killed around 11 AM on Saturday morning after being hit by a car on Riverside Drive.

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Petty. Vindictive. Jerks.

And the answer is “Three words used to describe James Snead, Coy Harville and Tim Barber”. Along with Jerry Hagerman, those three idiots fired Pittsylvania County Economic Development Director Ken Bowman for absolutely no legitimate reason at all.

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Piedmont Mall: The Next Generation?

Danville’s Piedmont Mall is going to become Danville’s Danville Mall. Let’s take a look at what this transformation will be…

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BREAKING: Armed Robbery at Danville Pizza Hut tonight

Another restaurant robbery in the Danville area…

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Two new robberies and one old one.

Overnight, Danville police are reporting two armed robberies of convenience stores. That also reminded me of one other attempted robbery that happened last year in the same area, so let’s look at what happened last night and then we’ll get a reminder of what happened last year…

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CORRECTED: Christmas News Roundup (12/25/12)

Lots of crazy & sad things going on in the SouthsideCentral region during the holidays. Let’s get to what you haven’t heard about in the other local media…

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