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			<title><![CDATA[Six positions for school resource officers are open in Pittsylvania County]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-22 16:52:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Six, not 16 positions for school resource officers are open in Pittsylvania County.

It's a small move in a large school safety plan the sheriff wanted installed immediately.

Supervisors voted to apply for a grant that will fund half a dozen officers....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Gretna man wins $50,000 in national radio contest]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-22 14:28:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A Pittsylvania County man is $50,000 richer, after winning a national radio contest. 

Stephen Johnson of Gretna won the grand prize in the "John Boy and Billy Money" contest. 

The John Boy and Billy Big Show is a national radio show that airs weekday...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What's coming out of your well?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-20 12:05:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Virginia Cooperative Extension wants to make sure homeowners who rely on wells, know whether their water is safe to drink. 

"We've got that rotten egg smell," says Linda Oliver, a homeowner in Roanoke County.

Oliver, like an estimated 22 percent...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pittsylvania County farmers rush to plant tobacco]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-17 13:13:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Tobacco farmers are wishing today's rain never came. 

Recent storms have kept them from planting on time, now they're using all farm hands before it's too late. 

Ray Emerson and his crew were out early this morning planting rows of tobacco at his...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New academy offers Pittsylvania County high school students college credit, internships, work certificate]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-16 14:23:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A new program in southern Virginia is helping students get ready for the real world, even before graduating high school. 

Pittsylvania County schools are introducing a new Academy for Engineering and Technology this fall. 

Students can earn college...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chatham Hall employee retires after 62 years]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-16 12:49:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An all girls school in Pittsylvania County is losing its longest working employee. 

Curtis Jackson is retiring from Chatham Hall after working there for 62 years. 

He started in the 1950's when he was 22, milking cows then moved to maintenance where...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Office expanding after mold, water damage repairs]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/wdbj7-pittsylvania-county-sheriffs-office-expanding-after-mold-water-damage-repairs-20130515,0,889085.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-15 11:09:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Mold and water damage forced county workers out of their offices last year in Pittsylvania County. 

Now renovations are underway to make the building safer and ready to handle more foot traffic. 

The Pittsylvania County Sheriffs Office is expanding...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[BRIEF: Guilty plea entered in fatal 2012 accident]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-16 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Brian Keith Cole, the Axton man indicted in a fatal hit-and-run, pleaded guilty Thursday in Pittsylvania County Circuit Court. 

Cole, 39, pleaded guilty to felony hit-and-run. The incident occurred Sept. 15 and left Thomas Lewis Bradner dead on the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two groups join forces against uranium mining]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-15 19:45:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DANVILLE, Va. (AP) -- 

Two Southside Virginia voices against uranium mining are joining forces. 

The Roanoke River Basin Association says it has welcomed CommonHealthVA as a part of its family. 

The group is among several that advocated for keeping the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anti-uranium groups in Virginia join forces]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-15 05:27:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Two Southside Virginia voices against uranium mining are joining forces. 

The Roanoke River Basin Association says it has welcomed CommonHealthVA as a part of its family. The group is among several that advocated for keeping the state's prohibition on...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ceremony honors local officers who died in the line of duty]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Family and friends of fallen police officers packed the sanctuary of Chatham Baptist Church on Monday night to celebrate National Police Week by honoring the lives of officers who died in the line of duty. 

Officers from the Danville Police Department,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Chamber recognizes local achievement]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-14 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Monday's awards dinner for the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce had a record turnout, with 440 people attending to recognize achievement in education, leadership and business. 

Chamber President Laurie Moran said people love positive...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Steven Ray Tickle, 35, of Pittsylvania County, was arrested Thursday in Danville for public intoxication.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2013-03-12 13:19:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Facial reconstruction of remains found in Pittsylvania County.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2013-01-16 12:29:00</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A look at the Dan River on Wednesday afternoon in Pittsylvania County.]]></title>
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			<pubDate>2013-01-16 09:46:00</pubDate>
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