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December 5, 2024

DPS re-submits sign proposal

(Danville) — Danville Public Schools has updated their plans to place new signs in front of all of their school buildings.  All thirteen locations are zoned Transitional Office Commercial. According to the code, ground signage in that district is restricted to 24 square feet of sign area, 32 square feet of architectural elements with a... Read More
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December 4, 2024

Six displaced in fire

(Danville) — Six people and a pet were displaced in a Monday night house fire in Danville.   The call came in as a kitchen fire at 301 Briarwood Drive. The first units saw light smoke coming from the rear of the house. All the occupants were outside and accounted for, but crews searched anyway... Read More
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December 4, 2024

PLAN Danville report adopted

(Danville) — A long road has ended for Danville planners.  A special committee worked nearly two years in an effort called “PLAN Danville.”  Danville City Council unanimously approved a final report from the PLAN Danville Commission Tuesday. Planning Director Renee Burton says they talked to 13-thousand people during the two-year long drafting process. “The comprehensive... Read More
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December 4, 2024

Council approves assisted living/residential development

(Danville) — A developer will get to build an assisted living community in Danville.  City Council Tuesday approved three requests from Joe Cubas. He’ll get to put 240 condos and 180 assisted living units on an 11-and-a-half acre lot at the southeastern corner of Goodyear Boulevard and the Danville Expressway.  Cubas is combining the assisted... Read More
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December 4, 2024

Council advances effort to move city departments

(Danville) — City leaders have begun the process of moving two departments to the former White Mill.   Danville City Council Tuesday approved a first reading on a plan to renovate nearly 86-hundred square feet on the second floor to house the city’s Office of Economic Development. They’ll also renovate over 12-thousand square feet on... Read More
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December 3, 2024

Local schools split state security grants

    (Richmond) — Several local schools are getting a share of $12 million in school security equipment grants from the Virginia Department of Education.       The money will be used for voice and video internal communication systems, mass notification systems, security card access systems, visitor ID badging systems, surveillance cameras, two-way radios, security vestibules,... Read More
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December 3, 2024

Pets die in Pitt. Co. house fire

(Penhook) — A Gretna volunteer lost his home and his two pets in a Sunday house fire.  Gretna Fire and Rescue reports volunteer paramedic Bill Van Gils was on duty Sunday when a call went out for a fire that had broken out at his home on Armstrong Road in the Penhook community, near the... Read More
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December 2, 2024

Sentencing set in Pitt. Co. murder

(Chatham) — A Pittsylvania County man convicted for a murder two-and-a-half years ago will learn his fate this week.   In August, Daniel Wayne Neal was found guilty of first-degree murder in the February, 2022 death of Charles Van Hooker. It happened at Van Hooker’s home on Boxwood Road in Gretna.  Deputies found Van Hooker’s... Read More
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