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Utilities Steering Committee – LIVE! (3/16/15)

We’re LIVE! at Danville’s City Hall for today’s Utilities Steering Commission meeting. We’ve got some photos from the meeting here, but we’re going to do separate articles on the results since we have 11 pages of results from the brainstorming. We’ll keep this article published since it’s already been indexed and the newspaper didn’t send a reporter. Heh.

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Time Machine: Union Street Bridge (1994)

Let’s hop in the SouthsideCentral Time Machine and take a look at a marker from 1994 that you’ve probably driven by in the last few weeks… but you’ve never been able to stop and read it.


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PhotoCentral: River District Artisans (Part #1)

Have you been to Danville’s “River District Artisans” at 411 Main Street? It’s where the Arc of Southside moved their “Hatcher Center Outlet Store” to from their previous location in Blairs. The Danville Regional foundation awarded them $100,000 to renovate the building and it’s beautiful. Today, we’ll take a PhotoCentral tour and show you some of the amazing things that are for sale. Let’s get Part #1 started.


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QuickHits! (3/15/15)

Sunday! QuickHits Day! Let’s see what’s caught my eye over the past week.


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RandomThoughts! (3/13/15)

I got the Thoughts! Oh yeah, they’re Random!


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OddsMakers! (3/13/15)

We rip off ESPN’s “Pardon The Interruption” features less than the Register & Bee rips off SouthsideCentral articles… but hey, at least we give credit for the inspiration. Hee Hee. Let’s get it started.


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They’re Watching You!

I think I’ve found the City of Danville’s newest security camera… and they didn’t make it easy to find, either.


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Danville Airport Commission – LIVE! (3/10/15)

We’re LIVE! at Danville Regional Airport for today’s Airport Commission meeting. You will never see coverage of meetings like this on other local media sources. Let’s get started…

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Danville IDA – LIVE! (3/10/15)

We’re LIVE! at Danville City Hall for today’s Industrial Development Authority meeting. This article is now complete.

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Danville Planning Commission (3/9/15)

Don’t expect much “real” happenings here, folks. We had one zoning request before the Planning Commission and it was routine. But hey, we’ve got photos!


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RIFA – LIVE! (3/9/15)

We’re LIVE! at the Danville Regional Airport for today’s Regional Industrial Facilities Authority meeting. We’ve added all the followup so this article is complete. Enjoy the recap.

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QuickHits! (3/8/15)

Sunday is QuickHits! day. Let’s take a look and see what has caught my eye over the past week.


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RandomThoughts! (3/7/15)

We guarantee that these Thoughts were originally Random at the time of their thinking.


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PhotoCentral: The Girl Scouts Take Over!

On Tuesday night, the local Girl Scouts “took over” Danville City Council’s meeting and performed perfectly. Here’s a PhotoCentral showing parts of their dress rehearsal and more photos from the meeting.


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Thumbs! (3/5/15)

Two Thumbs! articles in less than one week means I’ve got some strong opinions. Let’s take a look at what direction the Thumbs! are heading this time…


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Danville City Council – LIVE! (3/3/15)

We’re LIVE! at Danville City Hall for tonight’s Danville City Council meeting. This article is complete so enjoy the recap.

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QuickHits! (3/1/15)

Hey look! It’s a two-headed cow! Nah, we wouldn’t resort to using clickbait opening lines like that here on SouthsideCentral.

It’s Sunday and that’s QuickHits! day. Well, except for last week when we were the disaster recovery thing from a hard drive crash. Let’s take a look at some of the stories that have caught my eye over the last week. And yes, we have a two-headed cow for you.


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Thumbs! (2/27/15)

They could be UP! They could be DOWN! One thing we know is that they’re freshly colored!


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RandomThoughts! (2/26/2015)

Let’s get Random! And I’m talking about Thoughts!


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Danville’s New School Superintendent’s Contract

It’s negotiated and signed, so let’s take a look at incoming superintendent Dr. Stanley Jones’ employment contract with Danville Public Schools.


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Parking Jerk of the Day! (2/24/2015)

It’s been way too long since we celebrated condemned a Parking Jerk of the Day.


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Danville Utilities Commission – LIVE! (2/23/2015)

Hey, we’re back after a total system crash! Let’s get back going with today’s Danville Utilities Commission meeting.

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Danville City Council (2/17/2015)

You’ll notice that the headline doesn’t say “LIVE!” and that’s because I believe it’s potentially unsafe to hold tonight’s regularly scheduled meeting and I’m not going. I’ll just tell you what will happen so you can protest with me by staying at home like they should have done.


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QuickHits! (2/15/2015)

Sunday is QuickHits! day. Let’s take a look at some stories that have caught my eye in the last week.


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BreakDown: The Halifax County Meltdown

In the last BreakDown, I reminded you that the Halifax County government system was already broken down. We’re past that point and in full meltdown mode now.


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