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Southampton pageant winner Victoria Blow looks to future

Southampton High graduate Victoria Blow has fond memories from this past year as the Southampton County Fair Queen.

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Chance of a lifetime

A chance of a lifetime has left Franklin native Delydia Lawrence with a whole new perspective. She just ...

Lifestyles

Barnes United Methodist Church marks anniversary with events

A tiny one-room frame church organized in 1803 with a rail down the middle of the sanctuary to ...

Lifestyles

Teaching is her passion

If anyone ever dedicated their life to education, it would have to be Betty Worrell Darden.

Lifestyles

Somone’s in the kitchen: Hobbs learned to cook by accident

Dorothy Hobbs likes to say she learned to cook by accident.

Lifestyles

Sorority’s local chapter presents its biannual cotillion

On behalf of the Lambda Psi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., President Syretha Wright is ...

Lifestyles

Western Tidewater native takes on region’s economic development

Amanda Jarratt, the new president and CEO of Franklin-Southampton Economic Development Inc., has worked toward this position since ...

Lifestyles

Highlighting Southampton High’s students and changing perceptions

In 2007 Jackie Harris, a teacher at Southampton High School, along with five of the schools administrators attended ...

Lifestyles

Someone’s in the Kitchen: Barbara Haywood

Barbara Haywood has been cooking for at least 72 of her 78 years, and still loves it.

Lifestyles

Courtland child defies odds to attend state pageant

Rachel Blythe is not like other kids her age, but that doesn’t stop her from participating in all ...

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