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Blackstone · BlackstoneAdministered Anti-Venom “Willie” Nunez is shown here at Southside Regional Medical Center, where doctors administered a dose of anti-venom after Saturday afternoon copperhead bite on Old Shore Road. He was bitten while working with County Supervisor Bo Toth and Toth’s son Gabrielle. Photo courtesy of Bo Toth COUNTY OFFICIAL HAS HIGH PRAISE FOR SQUAD A Nottoway County farm worker was bitten by a copperhead Saturday and was transported by Nottoway…Read Article
NASTY BITE FROM COPPERHEAD

Blackstone · BlackstoneSTARBASE Blackstone director Nikole Johnson (center, 3rd from left) cut the ribbon Friday at the Rt. 40 school along with the Adjutant General of Virginia, Maj. Gen. James Ring (to left of Mrs. Johnson) and Retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Craig Crenshaw, the Virginia Secretary of Veterans & Defense Affairs. Director Johnson said, “We are enabling our students to see the world beyond Southside Virginia.” FROM LEFT: Mrs. Lucy Wills, Instructor; Gen…Read Article
‘A New World Beyond Southside’

Blackstone · BlackstoneJOHN GREGORY III Hearing set for Oct. 1st LAWYER: ‘ZEALOUS CRIMINAL DEFENSE FOR OVER 40 YEARS’ A Blackstone man charged in the recent beating and pistol whipping of a woman here has hired a well-known defense attorney — the same lawyer who grilled him two years ago over his role in a shoot-out in the parking lot of Slip-In convenience store. John Hamilton Gregory III has retained David Whaley of Richmond. Whaley successfully defended accused acc…Read Article