James “Jay” Randolph has been hired as Southampton County’s new community development and planning director, returning to ...

A Southampton County area student in Kenny Buffaloe’s Kyokushin Karate Youth & Teen/Adult Class at STUDIO 10 in Roanoke ...

The primary law enforcement agencies in the city of Franklin and in Southampton County afforded the public opportunities to ...

The second annual Homegrown Harvest Festival and its array of acclaimed chefs that showcased the culinary delights Virginia ...

The fourth annual Riverfront Soul Festival featured particularly strong attendance on Saturday, Oct. 5, at Barrett’s Landing ...

Franklin High School’s annual homecoming festivities will take place from Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 10-12.   A school news ...

Franklin High School’s varsity football team shut out visiting Arcadia High School 38-0 on Friday evening, Oct. 4, which was ...

The community of Southampton County-Franklin stepped up in North Carolina residents’ time of need last week.  From Sept.

Whispering Bear and I spent Oct. 5-7 on the Blackwater below Franklin. The water was high at 2.22 at the Franklin USGS gauge, ...

The weather cleared by Saturday, Sept. 28, to allow for a highly successful 2024 Franklin Fall Festival that drew an ...

Windsor Planning & Zoning Administrator James “Jay” Randolph gave the town’s Planning Commission an update on an ...

Tom Boylan, of The Meridian Group, presented a revised plan for the Tidewater Logistics Center warehouse project to a group ...