Blackstone News

A 4-H program let students at Herman L. Horn Elementary watch real eggs turn into real white leghorn chicks.

We were invited to see how they're preparing during a recent trip to to Ft. Pickett in Blackstone, Virginia.

The topic of the 2012 Southern Peidmont Equine Extravaganza, taking place April 7, is "Putting Science into Practice." The conference, sponsored by Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Forage and Grassland Council , will be held at Virginia Tech's Southern Piedmont Agricultural Research and Extension Center, located outside of ... (more)

The fatal shooting at Richmond 's McGuire Veterans Medical Center Wednesday morning allegedly involved a custodial worker there from Blackstone who inexplicably fired a pistol at a neighbor he had brought there for a regular cancer treatment, his girlfriend told CBS -6 News.

Steve Rideout stands among some of his graduate students' experiments at the Easten Shore Agricultural Research Station in Painter.