For Surry County Democrats, the choice of candidate for the new 82nd House of Delegates District has narrowed from three to two. Victor “Vic” McKenzie Jr. of Petersburg and Kimberly Pope Adams of Dinwiddie County each qualified by the April 24 deadline to get their names on the June 20 primary election ballot. A third […]
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Isle of Wight County has seen an influx of proposals for new solar farms over the past two months. County records show four pending applications received over a four-week period spanning March and April, the largest of which calls for a project site spanning more than 1,000 acres. The first, submitted March 22 by Windsor-area […]
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“Court Day” will return on Saturday to the 1750 Courthouse on Main Street in Smithfield. The annual reenactment, now held in the spring, serves as one of three annual fundraisers for the upkeep of the colonial-era brick building. This year’s performance is titled “Sounds of Revolution.” Since 2010, a group within Historic Smithfield Preservation LLC […]
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A judge expects to rule by June 1 on former Surry County Supervisor Michael Drewry’s petition to reverse the county’s 2022 approval of a controversial natural gas project. Align RNG, a joint venture of Dominion Energy and Smithfield Foods, received the supervisors’ 2-1 approval last June to construct a regional processing facility at the Surry-Sussex […]
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Isle of Wight County sheriff’s deputies have charged a Suffolk man with murder after an autopsy deemed a reported death from natural causes to have actually been a homicide. Deputies arrested 74-year-old Mark Wayne Honaker late Thursday night in connection with the murder of 54-year-old Steven William March of Carrsville. Deputies had discovered March’s body […]
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Isle of Wight County Parks and Recreation will hold its first-ever therapeutic recreation Sunny Smiles Day Camp for adults with disabilities age 18 and up. The program is intended to promote socialization and provide opportunities for participation in recreational activities. Activities will include group games, arts and crafts, field trips, physical activities, outdoor activities and […]
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Westside and Windsor elementary schools on April 20 became the first in the state to earn the “Project ADAM” designation as “heart-safe” schools. Project ADAM, an acronym for Automated Defibrillation in Adam’s Memory, was created in memory of Wisconsin teenager Adam Level, who suffered sudden cardiac arrest and died while playing basketball in 1999. An […]
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Smithfield-area businesswoman Patsy Watson has proposed turning the former Footnotes dance studio on South Church Street into an “upscale” event rental facility. Smithfield’s Planning Commission has set a May 9 public hearing on Watson’s request for a special use permit. According to her application, Patsy’s – as the business would be known – would host […]
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Circuit Court Judge Matthew Glassman ordered a three-month delay to the start of a Carrollton man’s murder trial after seven prospective jurors didn’t show up to court on April 26. Preston Kyle Thomas, now 25, allegedly shot and killed 26-year-old Rakim Breeden of Como, North Carolina, on Sept. 23, 2021, while the two were employed […]
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A proposed 432-acre solar farm will advance to Isle of Wight County supervisors with a 9-1 favorable recommendation from the county’s Planning Commission. Commissioner Jennifer Boykin, who in March had raised concerns about a solar farm fire in neighboring Surry County, cast the sole dissenting vote. Energix, an Israeli company with U.S. offices in Arlington, […]
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