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Danville City Council Race – Update #4

(Last update – Danville City Council Race – Update #3)

We’re about one month away from the general election for Danville’s City Council. So, has anything changed? Any big moves? Any buzz out on the streets?


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We’re (not) out to get the tea parties!

It’s not paranoia if they’re really out to get you. Unfortunately for the Lynchburg Tea Party, “they’re” really not out to get them.


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Thoughts & Review: Kings Dominion (Opening Day)

I’m not the avid theme park enthusiast, but here goes some thoughts on a trip to Kings Dominion on opening day.


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UPDATED: Danville’s Cruise-In season begins tonight!

(Updated to add photo slideshow link)

Make your way to Downtown Danville tonight from 6PM to 9PM. SouthsideCentral will be there LIVE!


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Danville City Manager on StarNews tonight

Here’s your chance to ask Danville City Manager Joe King some questions!

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Clean Energy Workshop in Martinsville tonight

Tom Perriello will be speaking at tonight’s event.


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Review of Reidsville’s “Cafe 99”

It’s worth the drive to Reidsville NC to eat at Cafe 99.


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Thumbs! (3/30 edition)

Up? Down? All around? Let’s get to some Thumbs!


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UPDATED: Happy Trails, Bronx Boy Bagels!

(Updated to add R&B story and comments)

It’s a sad day for people who love good food.


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Dumbass of the Day! (3/30)

Today’s feature includes two words you don’t want to see in the same news story. Tampons and bleeding. But it’s not what you think…


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Southside Weather Updates

UPDATED to give the National Weather Service’s findings on the Alton storm damage.

We’re in contact with lots of sources tonight, and we’ll be putting information that we get into this article. Keep checking back for updates.


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UPDATED: BREAKING NEWS: Mobile home overturned in Halifax County

We’re trying to get more information, but here’s what we have so far. Keep checking this story for updates.


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Happy Trails, Anthony Wimbush!

The owner of Danville’s former “Teen Zone” heads off to state prison.


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UPDATED: Strange Days in 5th District Land!

(Originally published on: Mar 23, 2010 @ 21:40) – UPDATED to include a new Josh Solovskoy posting.

Everything had been cruising right along as close to normal as possible until now. Two unrelated events just happened that make these very Strange Days.


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If you’d like to get Verizon’s FiOS service…

…FORGET IT!


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Photos from today’s Media Day at Martinsville Speedway

We put together a quick slideshow of some photos taken in the media center at Martinsville Speedway today… hope you enjoy!


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LIVE! at Martinsville Speedway!

We had a great time at Media Day at the Martinsville Speedway today. You can click the cutline below for some random notes, and we’ll have some photos up by tomorrow.


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SouthsideSpotlight: Bulldog Auto Detailing

Let’s feature another Southside business in today’s SouthsideSpotlight. Today, we’re taking a look at Willa Hatcher’s “Bulldog Auto Detailing”


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Fun with the Town of Halifax Police!

Well, it’s not really fun for them but we thought we’d tell you what’s been going on today in the village.


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Guest OpinionCentral: Jim Barczak on Halifax County Schools

Here at SouthsideCentral, we’re glad to present opinions from citizens of issues of local and regional importance. Today, Jim Barczak weighs in with an OpinionCentral on his take of the problems with the Halifax County School System.


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BREAKING!: Southside governments get stimulus grants for energy projects

We just broke this story on “The Local Buzz” on Star News (WGSR), so here it is for everybody to read.

Martinsville, Henry County, South Boston and Halifax County were awarded over $2,400,000 in federal stimulus money for energy efficiency programs.


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Photo Gallery from Saturday’s 5th District debate

We’ve compiled a gallery of photos from Saturday’s 5th District Republican debate at SCC.


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PhotoCentral: Mouthy & his hobby

Enough political stuff for at least a few minutes. It’s time for Mouthy the cat to get some publicity.


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Food Chain! – 5th District Candidates – Update #1

We did a Food Chain! on the candidates for the Republican 5th District nomination ten weeks ago, so it’s time for an update. This time, we’ll promise to get all seven candidates in there the first time. 😉


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The obligatory funny photo from Saturday’s debate.

Yeah, yeah. We’ve got plenty of photos from Saturday’s debate and will post a gallery of them soon, but it’s time to have a little bit of fun with a photo that turned out to be funny.

Ladies & Gentlemen, we proudly show you 5th District Candidate Laurence Verga doing the Moonwalk (but we’re going to make you click the cutline below to see it). 😀


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