{"id":14524,"date":"2015-11-17T00:11:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=14524"},"modified":"2015-11-17T00:38:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T05:38:41","slug":"quickhits-111615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/11\/17\/quickhits-111615\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickHits! (11\/17\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re a few days late in compiling this week&#8217;s edition of the news stories that have caught my eye over the past week. Instead of Sunday, let&#8217;s make Tuesday our QuickHits! day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>QuickHits! are best served on a Big Board, so here it comes!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefranklinnewspost.com\/news\/search-warrants-detail-investigation-into-death-of-toddler\/article_28d22c22-87c5-11e5-8d2e-f3631a225525.html\" target=\"_blank\">Did the Franklin County woman kill a 3-year old child with a water nozzle or with jewelry?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/news\/city-schools-take-out-no-trespassing-papers-on-local-man\/article_d5b57dd6-8810-11e5-8cff-9773cf51b54b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martinsville&#8217;s school superintendent takes out no-trespassing papers against local good guy Chad Martin.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/sports\/article_fe681368-887b-11e5-8b26-ffba7ae00736.html\" target=\"_blank\">Happy Trails, Chatham High School&#8217;s football coach Paul Grekos. He&#8217;s a great man.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/news\/man-indicted-in-bassett-murder\/article_02b26aec-8cdf-11e5-b4fe-df8edf4d31a0.html\" target=\"_blank\">A man already in state prison was indicted for killing a man who was charged with killing a guy. Confused? Me too.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefranklinnewspost.com\/news\/legal-shine-coming-to-franklin-county\/article_2c890894-8497-11e5-a8df-2b4298cfeda3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Whiskey from Franklin County&#8217;s first legal distillery will be sold in Virginia ABC stores on January 2nd.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunionstar.com\/news\/article_24613996-87e6-11e5-9952-034d92fabd3b.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Rustburg Middle School student is arrested for making a bomb threat.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/news\/article_be35b116-8884-11e5-b254-5f3d034b09fa.html\" target=\"_blank\">The First Citizens Bank clock is finally repaired on Chatham&#8217;s Main St.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimesnews.com\/article\/20151113\/NEWS\/151119530\/16618\" target=\"_blank\">Back taxes close down a Burlington restaurant (that had pretty good food, I ate there last year).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chathamstartribune.com\/news\/article_371288ea-8883-11e5-b2d2-2f450650caff.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chatham&#8217;s town manager puts in his resignation.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsvillebulletin.com\/news\/council-ponders-benefits-of-solar\/article_05483f44-8b62-11e5-b5f9-97c39dacf227.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martinsville&#8217;s city council is considering turning some of their industrial park properties into solar energy arrays. <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caswellmessenger.com\/news\/article_0b84651a-830e-11e5-8177-cbf316e06959.html\" target=\"_blank\">Caswell County&#8217;s school superintendent has taken another job after just 16 months on the job.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow. That&#8217;s 11 on the big Board so I&#8217;ll stop for now. Enjoy your Tuesday reading assignments!<\/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>We&#8217;re a few days late in compiling this week&#8217;s edition of the news stories that have caught my eye over the past week. 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(11\/17\/2013)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"November 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been a long while since we've done a QuickHits article. QuickHits articles feature Quick articles & thoughts that we Hit Quickly. Get it? Right. Let's Quickly Hit the QuickHits... Hear that sound of lips smacking? It came from Eric Deaton's ass when the Register & Bee printed a feature\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;NewsCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"NewsCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/newscentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12116,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/09\/quickhits-3815\/","url_meta":{"origin":14524,"position":1},"title":"QuickHits! (3\/8\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday is QuickHits! day. Let's take a look and see what has caught my eye over the past week. Here comes that regularly scheduled Big Board... A retired Martinsville deputy is in jail after shooting up his house and \"abducting with the intent to defile\". The Hometown Inn became the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;QuickHits!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"QuickHits!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/quickhits\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/HdKuMCl.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12188,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/15\/quickhits-31515\/","url_meta":{"origin":14524,"position":2},"title":"QuickHits! (3\/15\/15)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Sunday! QuickHits Day! Let's see what's caught my eye over the past week. QuickHits are placed on a Beautiful Big Board! Henry County ties Danville's 2015 murder count at one. 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