South Mills News

Jacqueline Brigman Bailey died May 2, 2012, at Chesapeake General Hospital. The funeral will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Our Father's House Ministries in South Mills.

Thumbs up/thumbs down: Finally, the city is stepping up traffic control at the Camden causeway bridge, where bottlenecks have been commonplace since the bridge replacement started last fall.

William Pritchard has spent the past three seasons filling in here and there as a substitute driver at Dixieland Speedway while watching his mother Gwen race around the track full-time. Pritchard plans to be among the Budweiser All-Star drivers when Dixieland's 30th season opens tonight.

Historian Alex Leary stood by an open field along N.C. 343 on Monday afternoon, telling the story of a battle held there 150 years ago today - a battle in which Confederate troops held off Union forces that outnumbered them more than 3-to-1. A retired history teacher with a passion for local Civil War battles, Leary often dons a Confederate uniform ... (more)

Local historian Alex Leary answers a question from Jimmy Westbrook during a stop on the tour of the site of the Civil War Battle of South Mills, Sunday.