Today's News

Chesterfield County Sheriff James Dixon said Sunday the death of Beckham Miller, 74, of Jefferson, is being investigated “because things did not look right.”
Dixon said his department should know more once the autopsy is done on Tuesday.
A friend found Miller dead at his Mine Street home.
 

“Let one week begin your life.”   
Now that he has attended Boys State, Walker Kirkley, a rising senior at Central High, saiys he understand  “this slogan means 100 percent of what it says.’
“It really is a life changing experience,” Kirkley said.  “You have to experience it for yourself.”

Chesterfield County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested a couple that allegedly shoplifted from the Dollar General in Patrick by concealing items in their children’s strollers.
Arrested were Veronica R. Sanders, 28, and Bradford Sanders, 28, of High Street in Cheraw.  
The manager of the Dollar General noticed empty wrappers and an empty box of Tide Pods while cleaning the store on the morning of July 16.

Town: Jefferson
Family: Husband, Robert Paul Evans; two special nieces, Veretta Covington and Kimberly A. Louallen
Church: Mt. Canaan Baptist Church
Retired from: Sandhill Telephone Cooperative, 27 years
Favorite meal: Mac and cheese, smoked ham, crowder peas, fried okra, sliced tomatoes and cornbread
Favorite TV show: “Alaska: the Last Frontier”