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What’s in Store at Rooster Walk 14? Festival Insights and Excitements
This week, we had the opportunity to sit down with Johnny Buck, the executive director and co-founder of Rooster Walk, to discuss the upcoming Rooster Walk 14. The festival began in 2009 as a tribute to late high school friends Edwin Penn ('the rooster') and Walker Shank. From its inception, the festival has focused on supporting a charity that grants college scholarships to deserving seniors at Martinsville High School and provides instruments and funding to enhance local school band programs. Rooster Walk Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit, has raised over $350,000 for these causes.
City nixes car washes on West Main St.
(Danville) — Danville planners have added another restriction to one of the city’s growing gateways. Last year the city established the West Main Corridor Overlay District. It runs from the North Carolina line to Rison Street. It governs new development along the corridor, which is the route many travelers are taking into Danville to visit...
Project Imagine celebrates milestone achievement: 25th class graduates, nearly 150 teens complete program
Project Imagine, a pioneering program dedicated to steering youths away from gang activity and community violence, recently celebrated a significant milestone as its 25th class graduated, bringing the total number of teenagers completing the program since its inception to nearly 150. Led by Robert David, violence prevention manager for the City of Danville’s Project Imagine,...
Look north! Aurora borealis could be seen locally Friday night, Saturday morning
ROANOKE, Va. – NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G4 Watch for the first time since 2005. Recently, the sun unleashed a series of flares that are set to interact with the earth’s magnetic field; a geomagnetic storm. While this might sound frightening, to the...
Why did so many Black teachers lose their jobs after the Brown v. Board ruling?
I have no vivid recollections of attending a segregated school, but I am aware that my educational journey commenced in Head Start at what was then Lincoln Consolidated School for Black students.I was born in 1964 — my middle daughter playfully labels me a “Baby Boomer” — and my life aligns with my county’s momentous period of school desegregation.My earliest educational memory is going to first grade at Happy Home School, a couple of miles from my home on the outskirts of Rockingham County, North Carolina. There, I was under the tutelage of Mrs. Neal and Mrs. Price, two impeccably...
Council greenlights warehouse demolition
(Danville) — A developer will get to take down an old tobacco warehouse and replace it with a large apartment complex. ARRG Properties asked the River District Design Commission for a Certificate of Appropriateness to demolish the former warehouse at 601 Lynn Street to make way for a 125-unit brick apartment complex. ARRG spokesperson...
Celebrating Excellence: Martinsville and Henry County Business Appreciation Awards Luncheon
Today businesses from Martinsville and Henry County gathered for this celebration, we are privileged to have been inspired by the uplifting words of our esteemed guest speakers, James E. Campos and Eric Phillips. Their insightful remarks have resonated deeply, reminding us of the importance of perseverance, innovation, and collaboration in...
Soccer Game Preview: Martinsville Hits the Road
The Martinsville Bulldogs are on the road again on Monday to play the Tunstall Trojans at 6:00 p.m. Martinsville will have to bring their A-game into this one, as they are staring down a pretty big deficit in the MaxPreps Virginia Rankings (they are ranked 286th, while Tunstall is ranked 82nd).
Encouraging jobless report for Southside
(Richmond) — Unemployment rates in Southside Virginia are setting historic lows for the month of March. The new survey from the Virginia Employment Commission shows Danville with a 4.3% jobless rate in March. That’s down six-tenths of a percent from February, and down slightly from the same month a year ago. On the...
Danville's Stallings in winning form at South Boston after accident recovery
SOUTH BOSTON, Va. (WSET) — Eight years ago Blake Stallings sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle accident. For many people the injuries he sustained would have been the end of a budding racing career – but it wasn’t for Stallings. Through diligence and hard work in his...
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