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Gallery – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … in Smithfield
The first weekend in December marked “Christmas in Smithfield,” an annual two-day event that includes tours of the ...
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Smithfield hosts ribbon-cutting for DMV
Local and state officials held a belated ribbon-cutting for Smithfield’s new Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles office on ...
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Surry has new plan for opioid funds
Surry County is pursuing a backup plan for its share of opioid settlement money following the state’s denial ...
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Smithfield agrees to 11.8% share of Turner roundabout cost
Smithfield has agreed to pay just over $900,000, or 11.8%, toward building a single-lane roundabout on Turner Drive ...
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WH Group shareholders approve Smithfield Foods first-in-decade U.S. stock listing
WH Group shareholders overwhelmingly approved Smithfield Foods’ Hong Kong-based parent company’s plans to take the world’s largest pork ...
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Smithfield delays vote on transferring $1.4M to EDA for Grange market
Smithfield’s Town Council will wait until two new members are seated in January to decide whether to follow ...
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Grace Street lane closures tied to drainage work
Six months after an expected summer start date, Virginia Department of Transportation crews began replacing damaged sections of ...
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School Board chair: Bill would ‘hamstring’ IWCS cellphone policy
Isle of Wight County’s School Board, on Nov. 14, took its first look at a new policy that ...
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Town returns $6 million to Luter III; son says new council’s support vital for Grange to be built
The Town of Smithfield has returned $6 million to former Smithfield Foods Chairman and philanthropist Joseph Luter III ...
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Most IW schools ‘on track,’ one in Surry ‘distinguished’ under new state rankings
Eight of Isle of Wight County’s nine public schools and two of Surry County’s would be labeled “on ...
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Gallery – Christmas returns to Smithfield
Christmas came early to Smithfield on Nov. 22 with the return of the town’s annual tree lighting ceremony, ...
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Homelessness nonprofit to hold barbecue fundraiser
Providential Credit Care Management Inc., a Smithfield-based nonprofit that assists low-income and homeless individuals and families, will hold ...
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One dead, one injured in Foursquare Road crash
One driver is dead and another has life-threatening injuries following a collision on Foursquare Road. According to Virginia ...
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Isle of Wight transfers $1.4M to EDA for Grange market
Two years after pledging $1.4 million toward moving the Smithfield Farmers Market to the Grange at 10Main, Isle ...
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Isle of Wight accepts $2.2M VDOT grant for Turner roundabout
Isle of Wight County supervisors voted unanimously on Nov. 21 to accept a $2.2 million Virginia Department of ...
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Fatboy’s owners lease former Main Street Restaurant
The former Main Street Restaurant on the west end of Smithfield is getting a new lease on life. ...
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Keurig delays closure of Windsor plant to 2025
Keurig Dr Pepper will delay closing its Windsor roasting plant. The beverage manufacturer, which produces the Dr Pepper ...
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Expected start date for IW EMS pharmacy changes is Jan. 1
Isle of Wight County’s new system for tracking prescription drugs stored in ambulances is on track to go ...
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Smithfield, Hampton to clash in football playoffs
Smithfield High will begin its quest for a state football championship Nov. 22, when the Hampton Crabbers cross ...
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Days Point under boil water notice following Nov. 18 main break
Days Point area residents are again under a boil water notice. The Isle of Wight County-owned well and ...
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Mallory Pointe developer proposing single-lane roundabout, down from two lanes
With Mallory Pointe on track to see its first houses in 2025, its developer is asking to amend ...
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Missing Surry senior citizen found safe
George Randolph Hankins, 81, has been found safe. Virginia State Police and the Surry County Sheriff’s Office had ...
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Revived application for Windsor warehouses imminent, county says
The developer of the rejected Tidewater Logistics Center multi-warehouse complex could submit a scaled-back version of the controversial ...
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Cypress Creek Bridge work will affect Christmas Parade
The ongoing rehabilitation of the Cypress Creek Bridge will impact this year’s Smithfield Christmas Parade. Since January, the ...
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Lead pipes? More than 1,400 received Smithfield’s ‘unknown material’ letter
If you recently received a letter from the town of Smithfield stating the pipe connecting your home to ...