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Danville City Council Preview (10/21/14)

Let’s take a look at what’s on tonight’s Danville City Council agenda. We’ll have LIVE! coverage of the meeting tonight (but you already knew that). Heh.

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ReportCard! – Danville City Council (10/18/14)

It’s been almost five months since the newest version of Danville City Council started working. I think it’s time for their first SouthsideCentral ReportCard! on how they’ve done since June 1st.

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Warner/Gillespie Joint Appearance – LIVE! (10/14/2014)

We’ve completely rewrote this article and have added a BreakDown at the end. This article is complete.

SouthsideCentral is LIVE! at tonight’s Mark Warner & Ed Gillespie joint appearance at the Institute. Be sure to refresh this page often for the latest happenings, photos, and commentary.

Tonight’s event starts at 7 PM. Our LIVE! coverage […]

It’s Payback Time… Again

If you Danville taxpayers liked paying back US Green Energy’s Tobacco Commission grant money, you’re going to just love paying back more!

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Danville City Council – LIVE! (9/16/2014)

Editor’s Note: This article is now complete. We’re LIVE! at tonight’s 7PM Danville City Council meeting. I’m going to do the best I can to get as much coverage in, then I’ll add bonus coverage, commentary and photos when I get home. Be sure to refresh the page often to get the latest happenings!

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My speech to Danville City Council on 9/2/2014

As promised, here’s the speech that I made to City Council during the public comment section on Tuesday, September 2nd. Two members of city council met and discussed business with two members of the school board in a way that the public nor media had to be notified in advance. This meeting was not in […]

Danville City Council – LIVE! (9/2/2014)

(Editor’s Note: This article is now complete.)

We’re LIVE! at Danville City Hall for tonight’s Danville City Council meeting. The meeting starts at 7PM, and we’ll start our exclusive LIVE! coverage before then. If you want a preview of what’s on tonight’s agenda, read today’s earlier SouthsideCentral article.

Be sure to refresh the page often […]

Preview: Danville City Council (9/2/2014)

Let’s see what we’re going to deal with at Danville City Hall tonight at 7:00 PM. It’s Danville City Council meeting time and SouthsideCentral will be there LIVE! for our exclusive coverage.

At times, things can go quickly, so we’ll let you know what’s on tonight’s agenda now and add some commentary.

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Danville City Council – LIVE! (8/19/2014)

This article is now complete. We’ve added and cleaned up commentary. We’ve also added bonus photos.

We’re at Danville City Hall for tonight’s Danville City Council meeting… and of course, we’re doing it LIVE! Refresh this page often to get the latest happenings, photos and commentary. When we get home tonight, we’ll clean the article […]

A Mayor of Two Cities: George Craghead Corbin

Travis Hackworth tells us another story of Danville history…

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“NO!” to City Retiree Bonus Payouts.

Danville City Council will start the process on paying a bonus to City of Danville retirees on the pension plan during Tuesday’s meeting.

It’s tough to have to say it, but SouthsideCentral is strongly against this action.

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5th District Congress Race – Update #1

It’s baaaaaack! It’s that time again where we have to choose our representative for the U.S. House. Let’s look at the field and see where we’re standing in our first update for the season.

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RIFA – LIVE! (8/11/2014)

We’ve cleaned up the article, added more commentary and some bonus photos. This article is complete.

The Regional Industrial Facilities Authority is having their monthly meeting today at noon, and SouthsideCentral is here LIVE! The meeting starts at noon, and our LIVE! coverage should start around 11:50AM

We’re at the Danville Regional Airport to see […]

Danville City Council – LIVE! (8/7/2014)

One LIVE! meeting done (I wish I could have stayed longer…) and now we move to the Danville City Council meeting for more LIVE! coverage. Tonight’s meeting was postponed from the normal Tuesday because of the National Night Out ceremonies. The meeting starts at 7PM and you’ll want to refresh the page often. That way, […]

Recapping Tuesday’s governor and cabinet visit…

Whew. It took 2 days to totally complete all the additions to our LIVE! coverage, but it was worth it. SouthsideCentral brought you everything we could about Tuesday’s events and we really appreciate the kind words about our coverage. You’ve now got the most photos of any local media and you saw them first during […]

Secretary of the Commonwealth Meeting – LIVE!

We’ve completed this article with some more information and photos.

Our fifth (and final?) LIVE! event of the day takes us to Jake’s on Main restaurant for a session with Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney. He’s going to talk about the process for getting appointed to Virginia’s boards and commissions.

Refresh the page often […]

Danville School Board LIVE! (7/17/2014)

If you want LIVE! coverage and LIVE! opinions and analysis of what’s happening at tonight’s Danville School Board meeting, you’ve come to the right place.

Tonight’s meeting starts at 6PM and we’ll start our SouthsideCentral coverage a little earlier than that. Acting superintendent Kathy Osborne has promised us wi-fi connectivity so we’ll be able to […]

Danville City Council LIVE! (7/15/2014)

Photos and more comments have been added, and this article is complete!

It’s time for another meeting of Danville City Council and you know that SouthsideCentral is going to cover it LIVE!

The meeting starts at 7PM and we’ll start our coverage around 6:30 PM. You know how it works… refresh the page often for […]

Danville City Council LIVE! (7/1/2014)

We have three articles in the “Must Write” columns and more that need editing, but do you think that’s going to stop us from having back-to-back-to-back LIVE! articles? Not a chance, baby!

SouthsideCentral is LIVE! at Danville City Hall for tonight’s Danville City Council meeting. You know what to do. Refresh the page often for […]

Danville City Council Organizational Meeting LIVE!

Who’ll be the mayor of Danville for next two years? Who’ll be the vice-mayor? Most importantly of all, where will everybody sit?

All of these answers are coming to you LIVE! today. The meeting starts at noon, and SouthsideCentral starts our coverage earlier than that.

Refresh the page for the latest happenings!

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Danville School Board LIVE! – (6/19/2014)

SouthsideCentral is LIVE! at the special meeting of the Danville School Board. Will the superintendent be fired today? What will happen? You’ll find out here. Refresh the page often for the latest happenings.

We’ll start our coverage around 2:45 PM.

Quick Recap: Ed Newsome’s job was definitely in jeopardy today, but he survived somehow. We’ll […]

Danville City Council LIVE! (6/17/2014)

SouthsideCentral was LIVE! at Danville City Hall for tonight’s Danville City Council meeting. Click below for the full details.

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Bad Mayor!

Bad Mayor! Go sit in the corner until you apologize and can play fair with the other council members.

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UPDATED: Danville City Council – LIVE! (6/3/2014)

SouthsideCentral was at Danville City Hall for tonight’s City Council meeting and we covered it LIVE!

Editor’s Note: We’ve updated this article to tell about the feathers flying during the around the horn session. Buddy Rawley called Mayor Sherman Saunders out for blowing past him on the floor discussion on the city retiree’s issue.

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When A School Board Member Goes “Rogue”

This isn’t pretty, but it looks like the Pittsylvania County School Board is taking “How To Be Dysfunctional” lessons from the Board of Supervisors.

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