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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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Endorsement: Susan Granger for Halifax Town Council

Although it’s just a seven-month term until the seat is filled in a general election, SouthsideCentral believes that Susan Granger is the strongest candidate for the vacant Ward D seat on Halifax Town Council. Besides that, she’s my sister!

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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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2013 Lieutenant Governor Race – Update #1

Wake up, Southside! There’s a crowded field for the 2013 Lieutenant Governor race. Seriously, folks… try and get excited about this race, ok? If I can semi-pretend to be excited enough to write this article, you can at least pretend to care about the candidates.

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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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Errors & Omissions: I blew it.

When SouthsideCentral makes a mistake, I will own up to that mistake. I will issue a retraction & apologize to all parties involved… and for the first time in SouthsideCentral history, I’m doing that tonight.

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Fred Ingram did not say “Nigga”…

… because you know that word could have been OK. Not.

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Burn, Baby, Burn! School Records Inferno!

Things are getting hot in the Halifax County School System, and it’s only partially because of a document bonfire behind Meadville Elementary School…

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How to make a reporter’s head explode…

Some media people just can’t take any criticism…

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A very melancholy “Happy Trails” to Tucker Watkins

My heart is heavy tonight as I mourn the death of one of the smartest and most fun political strategists that I’ve ever met.
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We’re planning… to kick you out!

You just bought a large mall that’s seen better times in a city with 20+% unemployment, so what do you do? That’s right… you kick out one of your anchor stores that’s been there since the beginning. Wait, what?!

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I’m calling out a Danville partisan hack.

I hate partisanship and have no problem calling it out. This week, Danville City C0uncilman Fred Shanks got ambushed with a biased comment/question that’s so bad that I’ve got to feature it here.

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Some thoughts about the 2012 Eden RiverFest…

If you missed this year’s version of Eden (NC)’s RiverFest, you missed one of the best fall festivals in the area. Let’s break in down in the “Random Thoughts” format…

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Some thoughts about Friday’s Downtowner Block Party…

Lots of people (including me at times) think that Downtown Danville is dead. It’s not, and events like tonight’s Block Party proves it. Here’s some random thoughts about it…
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2012 5th District House Race – Update #1

Let’s get back to the political side of SouthsideCentral with a look at the race for the 5th District House of Representatives seat…

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TYOB!: This weekend’s events!

If you stay at home this weekend, you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself.

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Thumbs! (8/12/12 Edition)

We’ve got some Thumbs! and they’re ready to go…

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Look at the fat Halifax police officer!

Oopsie. I didn’t punctuate that headline correctly so I’ll try again. “Look at the fat, Halifax police officer!”

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Gazette-Virginian: Ethically Impaired and/or Lazy?

If you’re going to use a biased article written by a member of a group that has a track record for inflammatory language, you should at least disclose who wrote the article.

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UPDATED: Where Are They Now?: People from the 5th District House Race

Update #1: Adding a name that was suggested by email. Thanks!

When Tom Perriello returned to Southside VA earlier this week (note that he didn’t make it to Danville), I was asked what happened to the major & minor players that participated in the 2010 election. That’s a good question and in the typical SouthsideCentral format, let’s take a fun look at the first article in a new feature series…Where Are They Now?

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