Opinion

Column – If you think life during COVID was inconvenient …

Last in a series Shortages related to the COVID pandemic led us to do things that should have ...

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Column – The Suffolk model: one to be envied or avoided?

Isle of Wight in 2024 feels a lot like Suffolk in 1974 — at a crossroads, a choice ...

News

Sentara mural unveiled

Sentara St. Luke’s outpatient campus in Carrollton, on May 21, unveiled a mural researched and designed by more ...

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Surry to borrow $10M for pool, amphitheater, banquet hall

Surry County’s $69.8 million budget for 2024-25 includes $10 million for a new public swimming pool, amphitheater and ...

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Rotary Club hosts emotional health expo

Smithfield’s Rotary Club held its inaugural emotional health expo on May 13 at The Smithfield Center. The event ...

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‘Life-changing:’ Drug court graduates grateful for second chance

Eighteen months ago, in 2022, Joshua Coleman of Suffolk stood in an Isle of Wight County courtroom as ...

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Lady Chargers fall to Nansemond-Suffolk at state championship

Isle of Wight Academy’s varsity softball team punched its ticket to the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association Division ...

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Smithfield Ruritans award scholarships

The Smithfield Ruritan Club recently awarded six local high school graduates $1000.00 each for their outstanding Ruritan scholarship ...

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IW approves six-year secondary road plan

Isle of Wight County supervisors on May 16 unanimously approved the Virginia Department of Transportation’s secondary six-year improvement ...

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Surry debuts driving tour highlighting Black, indigenous history

In 1860, a year before the start of the Civil War, over a third of Surry County’s African ...

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