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News of Our Men in Service

We have an interesting letter from Ma or Charles F. James, Jr., who is in England. He writes that recently he visited a Red Cross officers club and found that Robert A. Hunter, of Appomattox, had registered there earlier in the week; and that recently in awarding the Purple Heart medal in the hospital at which he is stationed one of the patients was Ralph Brown, a cousin of Nelson Brown, a former teacher at Appomattox High School.

30 YEARS AGO

Coleman & Sons co-owner dies

Mr. Dan Gordon Coleman, 50, passed away at the University of Virginia Hospital. He was co-owner of Coleman & Sons, Inc. in Appomattox. He was born Nov. 6, 1940, son of Walter and Isabelle Coleman.

25 YEARS AGO

Area weathers winter onslaught

Appomattox managed to the weekend’s record-setting snowfall with few problems and no power outages. The storm brought blizzard-like conditions to much of Virginia and about 20 and one-half inches of snow throughout most of the Lynchburg area.

20 YEARS AGO

Board votes in Puckett as attorney

The new Appomattox County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to replace Tommy Lawson with Darrell Puckett for the county attorney position. Puckett defeated Lawson in November’s election for Commonwealth’s Attorney.

10 YEARS AGO

Garrett elected school board chair

The Appomattox County School Board elected Stacy Garrett as the new chair of the board on a 3-2 vote. Bobby Waddell was elected as vice-chair.

5 YEARS AGO

Evans pleads guilty to murder

In Appomattox Circuit Court, Aubrey “Butch” Evans pled guilty to second-degree murder, a felony firearm charge, and shooting into an occupied vehicle. Evans, 71, was charged in the murder of his estranged wife Laura Woody Evans, in 2014 at the Quick-E gas station on Court Street.

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