The Franklin City School Board received an update in late April regarding ongoing work within the school division to address ...

Spirit of Moonpie and I spent May 6-8 on the Nottoway below Delaware. The water was actually a little low, 76 degrees and ...

Bronco Federal Credit Union (BFCU) proudly awarded $23,000 in scholarships to 10 exceptional high school seniors during its ...

Courtland-based Rawlings Mechanical Corporation has established for the past 67 years a legacy in the region of treating its ...

Production at Keurig Dr Pepper’s Windsor roasting plant ended April 11, according to Katie Gilroy, senior director of ...

Heritage Day will be Saturday, May 10, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in  Courtland, sponsored by the Southampton County Historical ...

Gerard A. “Gee” Harvell has been missing since April 29 but has been known to frequent the Tidewater area. A missing-person flyer indicates Harvell, 48, is an African American man, standing 6 feet ...

Paul D. Camp Community College held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning, May 1, at 1000 Armory Drive to signal the grand opening of its new Nursing & Allied Health Professions Building at that ...

Fifty years ago, in April 1975, a group of Franklin citizens was planning a centennial celebration to mark Franklin’s 100th anniversary as a town. The celebration was scheduled for 1976. On March 15, ...

FRANKLIN – Jesse Dempsey Gardner Jr., 96, passed away May 7, 2025 in East Pavilion. Born in Portsmouth and raised in Franklin, he was the son of the late Jesse Dempsey Gardner Sr. and Annie Turner ...