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NumbersCentral: “What do Halifax County teachers make?”

Here at SouthsideCentral, we’re glad to answer our readers’ questions. In this NumbersCentral, you’ll find out the pay scales for the Halifax County Public School system.

It’s public information. You’re the public.


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BonusCentral!

What’s that I hear from you? You want more? You want bonus types of coverage from SouthsideCentral?

You got it. Welcome to BonusCentral!


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Let’s talk about the Ed Newsome situation…

Danville school superintendent Ed Newsome almost got fired last night.  Nobody else will report it, but SouthsideCentral will. He somehow pulled himself out of the fire and the school took no action after 6 hours worth of meetings. Let’s talk about what happened…


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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 have a recap article on this tomorrow morning. In the meantime, click on the jump and read the recap of what happened today.
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UPDATED: BREAKING: Danville School Superintendent To Be Fired Today?

We’re going to put a question mark at the end of this headline because it’s currently a personnel matter that can’t be discussed…


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Thumbs! (6/19/2014)

Our Thumbs! are becoming famous. Seriously.


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The US Green Energy – Tobacco Commission Agreement

Since we’ve been covering the US Green Energy Job Bust and the news that Danville will have to repay the grant money if the company can’t, we thought our readers would like to see what the agreement actually looked like.


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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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We’re a Job Bust. Trust us.

Anytime that news is dumped out on Friday afternoon, it’s not going to be good news.


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RandomThoughts! (6/14/2014)

Let’s take a quick trip into my mind this Saturday, shall we?


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“I’ll tell you where you can put your tanks, buddy.”

For a “public relations officer”, this guy needs to learn about public relations.


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RandomThoughts! (6/13/2014)

Friday morning! Weekend’s almost here! Lots of exclamation points! RandomThoughts!


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Thumbs! (6/12/2014)

You give me the finger, I’ll give you the Thumbs!


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Happy Trails, Mackenzie Osadchuk!

Danville’s Office of Economic Development is losing another employee.


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UPDATED: Happy Trails, AAF Tank Museum!

It’s official. You’ll soon be able to call the building the old Disston plant again.


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RandomThoughts! (6/11/2014)

In a world where people have Thoughts, only a few do it in Random style… (That’s best read in a booming movie trailer type of voice)


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ReportCard! – Elected School Boards

Some people look forward to getting their grades when the report cards come out. Others hope that the dog eats them.

In this new feature, we’ll take a category or group of things and grade the items on the standard A to F scale. I think the elected school boards in the regions that we mainly cover would the perfect group to get the first SouthsideCentral ReportCard. Get ready, it’s grading time!


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Let’s talk about the Albert Randolph situation…

So that happened. Halifax County High School Principal Albert Randolph has been reinstated to his position.

“Let’s talk” about what happened and let’s tell it like it is…


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UPDATED: The Albert Randolph Solution (that didn’t happen)

(Editor’s Note: This didn’t work out in the way that I proposed. But hey, it was a possible solution. We’ll have a new article recapping and analyzing what happened within the hour.)

There was a big crowd of supporters for Albert Randolph, the recently demoted Halifax County High School principal, at tonight’s Halifax County School Board meeting. Here’s my best bet at how this situation will be conveniently “worked out”.


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Happy Trails, Libby Hill Seafood!

We had a feeling it was going to happen soon…


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QuickHits! (6/9/2014)

QuickHits now, RandomThoughts later today!


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Follow us on Twitter & Instagram!

We took today off from the website for the Republican Party of Virginia’s convention in Roanoke, but the SouthsideCentral coverage continued on Twitter. Here’s how to always keep up with SouthsideCentral…


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RandomThoughts! (6/6/2014)

I’m not going to think about food. I’m not going to think about food. I’m not going to think about food.


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Downtown Danville Scavenger Hunt – LIVE!

SouthsideCentral had a terrific LIVE! time at Thursday’s Downtown Danville Scavenger hunt. If you missed it, we’ve got a PhotoCentral tour of our leisurely run up and down Main St.


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Thumbs! (The Adam Tomer Special Edition)

It was pointed out to me last night by a citizen that I never have given Adam Tomer a Thumb! since we started this feature. Let’s make up for that today…


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