Halifax County News

Halifax Co.,VA-- Several people in Halifax County were whizzing around a racetrack on Thursday, but were raising money with every lap.

In seeking a $116 million acquisition of Halifax Regional Heath System, Sentara Healthcare has acknowledged it wants to achieve a first for the company - bringing a rural hospital into Mecklenburg County school trustees voted to return Buckhorn Elementary School to the county government during their monthly meeting of the School Board.

Opponents of uranium mining in Virginia met with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on the issue, and they said he's solidly in their corner.

According to Halifax County Registrar Judy Meeler, the Constitution of Virginia requires that you be registered in the precinct in which you live in order to be qualified to vote and in order to be eligible to vote in the June Democratic Primary Election that will be held on Tuesday, June 11, you must register no later than 4:30 p.m. on Monday, May ... (more)

Halifax Town Council will hold its regular monthly meeting tomorrow night immediately following its committee work session which begins at 6:30 p.m. in Town Hall.

The May 3-5 weekend marked the start of the 2013 Tier 1 outdoor soccer season in the Nova Scotia Soccer League, with five of the eight Valley United teams seeing their first action.

Halifax County has been awarded a $12,500 planning grant to develop a small-scale animal processing center in the county.

Unemployment numbers are again on the decline in Mecklenburg County, which added 100 new workers to its rolls in March, according to data released last week by the Virginia Employment Commission.

With the help of the Virginia State University affiliated Cooperative Extension, farmer James Brown is trying to grow chickpeas at his farm in Clover.