In Accordance with the Governors Executive order the basketball court on fifth street will be closed until further notice.
Please everyone lets comply with the request during this national health emergency so we can recover quickly and return to our normal way of life.
It's a great day to be in Chase City!
Click the link below to learn more about the Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Program:
https://www.chasecity.org/the-town/downloads/52-disaster-loan-program/file
Click the link below to view Retail Strategies 2020:
https://www.chasecity.org/the-town/downloads/51-retail-strategies-2020/file
In Accordance with the Governors Executive order the Playground located behind First Citizens Bank will be closed until further notice.
Please everyone lets comply with the request during this national health emergency so we can recover quickly and return to our normal way of life.
If there are any seniors or people with special requirements that need assistance call the town office at 372-5136 and we will do our utmost to ensure that you are helped. If any group would like to assist with our seniors so they do not become exposed please contact the town office so we can put a list of contacts together.
Read the Executive Order on temporary restrictions issued by the Governor by clicking the link below:
The safety of our Residents and employees is the Town of Chase City’s highest priority. Accordingly, to minimize the risk of exposure to, or the spreading of, the Coronavirus (COVID-19), and to help ensure the health and well-being of those in our town, and our valued employees, the Town is encouraging the use of our drop box located at the entrance door of the Town Office. Please include your account number and/or name on the envelope. You can also make payments online. Please be advised there will be a processing fee charged on all online payments. Payments can be made at chasecity.org or by calling 1-844-395-2234.
The Town Office will be open and if you have any questions please do not hesitate to call us at 434-372-5136.
The Town is taking every precaution to help maintain a healthy community and apologizes for any inconvenience our residents may experience because of this Pandemic. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding in this matter.
Dusty Forbes
Town Manager
Public Works will be conducting smoke tests in the sewer system over the next several weeks. Please call the Town Shop at 372-3220 with any concerns about smoke in your house.
Apply now through above web address for upcoming decennial census operations. Hiring will begin soon. $15.00 hourly rate and current auto mileage,.57. 30 to 40 hours weekly with flexible hours(inc evenings & Saturday). 30 to 60 days with possible extensions. Training expected at SVCC Workforce Center.
Effective 01/01/2020 residential garbage rates will increase to $11.00 per month. Commercial rates will increase to $15.00 for 1-pickup per week and $30.00 for 2-pickups per week.
In the 1920s and 1930s, if you lived in Franklin County, most likely you were in involved in the county's biggest industry — making illegal whiskey or moonshine. The proliferation of stills prompted then-Deputy Prohibition Commissioner N.C. Alexander to note that of the 30,000 people living in Franklin County at the time, 29,999 were "mixed up directly or indirectly in the whiskey business."
Franklin County was known during Prohibition as "the wettest county in America."
Eighty years later, the grandson of one Franklin County's moonshiners, Robert Bondurant of Chase City, is carrying on the family legacy by making moonshine in a still pot handed down through the family. That's where Robert's ties to the past ends.
Residents in Chase City were buzzing with Hollywood fever last week when they learned that scouts from the television show "American Pickers" were in town.
The men were at the Southside Roller Mill on East 3rd Street in downtown Chase City.
They weren't visiting to look at the Mill, which was recently named to Preservation Virginia's list of most endangered sites. Instead, the scouts came to sort through the treasures that Mill owner Harry Click has collected and assembled over the years, only some of which are housed at the Mill.
For those who are unfamiliar with the show that airs on the History Channel, it is about two expert antique hunters, Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz, who travel the country looking for what the show's website calls "hidden gems."
It is also about the quirky characters with amazing stories to tell who the two men meet as they travel around in their pickup truck.