{"id":13836,"date":"2015-08-30T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=13836"},"modified":"2015-08-30T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T17:30:06","slug":"quickhits-83015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/30\/quickhits-83015\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickHits! (8\/30\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday is (usually) QuickHits! day, so let&#8217;s take a look at some of the stories that have caught my eye over the past week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here comes the QuickHits! Big Board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/former-franklin-county-sheriff-ewell-hunt-dies-at\/article_8a42c4fb-41cd-52ce-adee-a92e416eb27b.html\" target=\"_blank\">A sad Happy Trails! to former Franklin County Sheriff Ewell Hunt. The embattled former sheriff died Saturday at the age of 60.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/news\/council-votes-to-keep-fluoride\/article_68384ef8-4b90-11e5-8401-ff4977462ea3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martinsville&#8217;s Crazy Councilwoman Sharon Hodge goes down to defeat on her fluoride in the drinking water nutball conspiracy.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesvirginian.com\/news\/article_02c53f08-4bf5-11e5-a162-6f394ee7d66f.html\" target=\"_blank\">Appomattox&#8217;s attempt at a Chinese furniture company may open up by February 2016, so they say. Didn&#8217;t GOK say the same type of things?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/news\/article_8e5429b2-4c04-11e5-8855-5fd60d6ccc4b.html\" target=\"_blank\">A former bouncer at Highlander&#8217;s picks up even more prison time on more drug charges.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesvirginian.com\/news\/article_e5d2b420-4bf4-11e5-868c-f31da8bc845c.html\" target=\"_blank\">The town of Pamplin is theoretically bankrupt.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefranklinnewspost.com\/news\/deputies-search-for-police-impersonator\/article_0055ff64-4b5a-11e5-ad6b-6771ad7d10cb.html\" target=\"_blank\">A police impersonator causes trouble by&#8230; um, starting false rumors?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emporiaindependentmessenger.com\/news\/article_93619a02-4bf5-11e5-997f-2724a4e1b494.html\" target=\"_blank\">The murder weapon was a carburetor. That&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve never written before.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesnews.com\/article\/20150824\/NEWS\/150829465\" target=\"_blank\">I think this is technically a breaking-and-entering incident.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roanoke.com\/news\/columns_and_blogs\/columns\/dan_casey\/casey-the-most-newsworthy-christmas-parade-ever\/article_3068f375-dee9-56b1-b73a-e8b19addec12.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Casey tells us about the upcoming Roanoke Christmas Parade and its&#8230; wait for it&#8230; Confederate flag controversy.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/news\/article_5b713158-4bf4-11e5-818e-e399519c1a0f.html\" target=\"_blank\">New Star-Tribune reporter Bobby Roach takes us on a tour of Chatham&#8217;s Cruise-In.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whew. That&#8217;s ten reading assignments for you today&#8230;. but we know you love them.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got more coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/HdKuMCl.jpg?resize=376%2C211\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"211\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday is (usually) QuickHits! day, so let&#8217;s take a look at some of the stories that have caught my eye over the past week.<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quickhits","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-3Ba","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13347,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/12\/quickhits-71215\/","url_meta":{"origin":13836,"position":0},"title":"QuickHits! 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