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The Journey to the Top
A CEO’s journey is a testament to her determination, resilience and the power of dreams March 2025 by Laura Emery, Staff Writer “I remember my mother bringing a calculator to the grocery store,” says Sonja Cox, president and CEO of Southern Maryland Electric...
A Green Light to be Tickled Pink
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‘Before Broadband Was Cool’
MBC celebrates 20 years of fulfilling a need for speed March 2024 by Laura Emery, Staff Writer For the past two decades, Mid-Atlantic Broadband Communities Corporation, a nonprofit based out of South Boston, Va.,...
Keeping Her Eye On the Ball
November/December 2021Now she's grand marshal of a parade she once watched Growing up in tiny Palmer Springs, Va., Odicci Alexander remembers how she excitedly attended Christmas parades in nearby South Hill, an annual tradition in Southside Virginia. This year will...
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Where to Park It
August 2021 With the dedication of Clinch River State Park in June, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation added its 41st park to its system. While all of the parks offer a variety of activities, we’ve highlighted some specific attributes of these...
An Eye for Detail
Honors mount forart contest winner By Laura Emery, Deputy Editor Whether it is in the stroke of a paintbrush on canvas, the placement of a Lego block, the movement of a chess piece or the strike of a piano key, you can be guaranteed that 8-year-old Vihaan Panjwani of...
A Garden Like No Other
June 2021The first emperor of Rome is in Southside Virginia. So is a 19thcentury Samurai warrior. A dozen Granada lions from Spain are about, as is a soapstone cooking vessel. An eclectic collection? That doesn’t begin to describe the treasure trove at MacCallum More...
History Hidden in the Walls
May 2021History Hidden in the Walls Edwin Washington Project depicts history of rural Black education What we know about Edwin Washington is that he wanted to learn. We don’t know much else about him. But we know he longed to learn, and that is enough. In June 1867,...