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The 48th House of Delegates seat will remain in the Republican fold. GOP nominee Eric Phillips Tuesday won a special election over Democratic hopeful Melody Cartwright to replace Les Adams

The GOP maintained hold of two state legislature seats in special elections in the Southside district.

A pair of Virginia Republicans protected two seats in the state legislature on Tuesday night in blowouts against Democrats.

Two Special Elections Being Held in the Southside on Tuesday

For the first time in more than a decade, voters in the Dan River Region will head to the polls for a special election Tuesday.

Melody Cartwright, D-Martinsville, and Eric Phillips, R-Henry County, are running to represent District 48 in the Virginia House of Delegates, an area that includes the city of Martinsville and the counties of Henry and Pittsylvania County.

In the end, we possess the power over the process only if we exercise our ability to think for ourselves and not pass the decision off to someone with a sign.

With most of 2023 now in the rearview mirror, its time once again to take a look back and consider the most significant stories of the year.

The Henry County Registrars Office is preparing for the special election on Jan. 9 to elect a new House of Delegates Representative for District 48.

Most of us in these parts were utterly gob-smacked last week by the news of Delegate Les Adams’s sudden abdication of his office as our representative in the Virginia General