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The recreation committee of the Meadville Center will sponsor a play production entitled “The Slabtown District Convention” in April 1984. Decked out in their finery ready to attend the convention are (from left) Andrew Britton, Virginia Britton, Louise Hendricks, Carie Barley, Judy Hendricks and Estelle Poindexter.
A Halifax County tradition will not happen this year after a Monday vote by Scottsburg Volunteer Fire Department Corporation canceling its Fourth of July celebration. “Scottsburg Volunteer Fire Department Corporation has voted to not hold their annual July 4th celebration for 2014,” Scottsburg Volunteer Fire Department Corporation President Ricky Gordon said in an email on Monday. “We have decided to look at holding it again possibly in 2015, but several factors including lack of sponsors, volunteers and rising costs have caused us to cancel the 2014 celebration.” Halifax County is known for a number of community celebrations throughout the year that support volunteer fire departments and other causes, and the Scottsburg celebration was one that visitors asked about, according to Halifax County Chamber of Commerce President Nancy Pool.
County taxpayers will pay one cent more on their real estate in the coming year after the Halifax County Board of Supervisors voted 6-2 to raise the real estate tax rate from the current 45-cent rate to 46 cents per $100 value. The $87.9 million budget draft included the penny increase in the real estate tax rate to counteract the decline in assessed values and achieve a revenue neutral rate as well as pay for debt service to be incurred for renovations already underway on Phase I of the courthouse project involving moving the sheriff’s office and making space for the temporary courts.
After four months of having the interim head football coach tag in front of his name, longtime Halifax County High School coach Kenneth Day was officially named yesterday as the head varsity football coach at Halifax County High School. Day said the message he is going to take to the players in the high school football program is simple. “The main thing I’m going to preach to them is we’re going to have fun, we’re going to get the job done and we’re going to do the best we can,” he pointed out.
20 YEARS AGO | 2004
One of four public hearings on the South Boston Town Council agenda could mean two additional mobile units at Halifax County Middle School. The application for a special use permit to allow the additional units will be addressed. If approved, the middle school will have a total of 14 mobile units.
With an easy-going personality and a quick smile, South Boston’s new postmaster promises to focus on pleasing the customer. “I am a customer-service oriented manager,” Randy Alderson said. “I want to provide our customers with the best and most professional service we can. To illustrate the point, Alderson said that in the near future he wants to host a customer appreciation day where postal customers can get to know him.
If there was any question as to how well Halifax County would rebound from Wednesday’s setback against the highly talented team from Garden City, New York, it was answered Friday night in a resounding manner. With hurler Jeremy Jeffress spinning a three-hitter and Chris Perkins delivering a three-RBI double in the top of the sixth inning to seal the contest, the Comets won a big road game, blanking defending Group AA state champion Amherst County 5-0.
40 YEARS AGO | 1984
Construction of the major runway extension at William M. Tuck Airport is scheduled to be underway by the end of June, with completion four months later. South Boston City Manager Aubrey Houghton reported for the airport commission that the engineers will have plans and specifications finished by the end of this month, with bids to be received by the end of June. The work, the chief portion of which will be to extend the main north-south runway from 3,600 feet to 4,000 feet, will be financed in large part with a $575,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration.
The South Boston-Halifax County YMCA is seriously considering building a new gymnasium complex and undertaking a capital campaign designed to cover the costs of building the new facility as well as covering the current dept owed on the present facilities. YMCA Board President Allen Oxford, Paul Steube, the vice president of the board and next year’s president, and Jim Twigg, the YMCA executive director all noted this week that the proposed $500,000 capital campaign planned for early 1985 could retire the standing debt on the present facility and enable the YMCA to construct the gym and thus complete the overall facility.
After being clubbed 88-48 by E.C. Glass last week, and most recently losing by a similar score of 89-47 to visiting Heritage on Wednesday afternoon, Blue Comets boys track coach Woody Bane could be understood if he breathed a sigh of relief now that the “Hill City” portion of the new schedule has been registered. As was the case versus the Hilltoppers, the Comets had some superb individual efforts on the day, gathering in five first-place finishes with three of them coming in the field events that saw the Blues bolt off to a 21-15 lead initially only to have the Pioneers roar back and take the lead for good.