The first crown: Rico Reynolds, Vic Hall and Gretna’s 2003 breakthrough
The Hawks’ first football championship belongs to a whole team, with names and performances worth remembering.
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Twenty-eight straight: Gretna’s 2004 title and the community that followed
A state resolution preserves a perfect season, a 40–14 championship victory and thousands of traveling supporters.
Defense and the ground game: how Gretna secured its fifth football title
The 2011 Hawks beat Goochland 21–16, adding another championship under Kevin Saunders.
Hurt's growth story begins with a town and its neighbors
The town's own introduction connects residential life with regional economic cooperation.
A depot saved for the next generation of researchers
Chatham's History Research Center gives a former railway building a continuing public purpose.
Keep playing, coach a team or work the game: Danville’s adult sports routes
Adult basketball, soccer, softball and kickball sit beside coaching and paid officiating opportunities.
Motley's Mill: where water powered work and community life
A Banister River landmark connects industry, recreation and religious life.
Southside High School's legacy reaches beyond the classroom
William S. Turner, teachers and students built an educational legacy under segregation.
Before the archive goes digital, Northside alumni already did the work
The Northside alumni souvenir book preserves a community's names and memories.
Gretna's Vivian Taylor turns a summer internship into research experience
The CEA Innovation Center documents a local student's work in applied plant research.
Gretna Community Council meeting listed for September 14
Danville Regional Foundation lists an evening meeting at Elba Missionary Baptist Church.
Karice Luck-Brimmer to explore Cherrystone's community history
A January program will examine churches, burial grounds and early education.
October Career ChoICE expo connects students with work they can see
The 2026 event is listed at the Olde Dominion Agricultural Complex.
Two September workshops put business planning and websites on the calendar
Longwood SBDC lists online sessions for September 17 and 23, giving local owners a practical place to start their next business task.
Starting or growing a business? Match the question to the right local desk
Business advice, town licensing and county development each serve a different purpose. Here is a practical route through them.
Chatham drought warning reaches county customers beyond town limits
Pittsylvania’s September 11 alert identifies the county service areas supplied by Chatham and asks customers to begin conserving water.
Sheriff’s Office schedules public feedback sessions, including November 12 in Gretna
Four meetings give residents a chance to discuss public safety services as the county agency pursues its first CALEA accreditation.
Eight Danville businesses finish holiday campaign training; October workshop is next
The city’s September 10 update explains the completed program’s matching funds and a separate, city-business-only marketing session.
The farms around Gretna have more than one story to tell
A USDA county snapshot puts tobacco alongside livestock, dairy and other parts of the agricultural landscape.
The freight ramp and the flue shop: how Main Street served farm country
Two documented details connect downtown commerce with railroad freight and farm supplies.
Sharswood, part 1: A house bought for family opened a door to history
Fred Miller wanted room for family gatherings. His May 2020 purchase led the Miller family into a history that was local, national, and deeply their own.
Sharswood, part 2: Read the Gothic Revival house—and look beyond it
The 1850s main house is architecturally important, but its design tells only one layer of the property’s history.
Sharswood, part 4: Fifty-eight people, twelve dwellings, and a record without names
The 1860 census counted the people held at Sharswood but largely denied them the basic recognition of being recorded by name.
Sharswood, part 5: Sarah Miller carried the family story across emancipation
A photograph, a death certificate, a census entry, and Marian Keyes’s memories brought one post-emancipation life into focus.
Sharswood, part 7: The 1866 labor contract—and the limits of the available copy
A courthouse document reportedly names David and Violet after emancipation, but its full terms still need direct inspection before they are quoted or interpreted.
Sharswood, part 8: The burial ground beyond the property line
Uninscribed stones in a wooded area became evidence of lives the formal record had obscured—and a call for careful stewardship.
Sharswood, part 9: What the 60 Minutes report documented
The national broadcast preserved the Miller family’s voices and the evidence trail. Its 2026 update should not be mistaken for a newly filmed investigation.
Sharswood, part 10: From discovery to descendant-led stewardship
The Sharswood Foundation is carrying the family’s discovery into preservation, education, and public memory—work that remains active rather than finished.
Barbara Johns made a school’s unequal conditions impossible to ignore
The Farmville student organizer’s story is about preparation, collective action, and the long work after a walkout.
Juneteenth connects a promise of freedom with the work of enforcing it
The surviving General Order No. 3 helps explain why emancipation has more than one important date.