On the heels of an annexation meeting between Halifax Town Council and supervisors Wednesday night, town officials yesterday announced a special council meeting Monday on the same issue.
The Monday meeting is closed, as was the Wednesday night session between town and county officials.
Supervisors and councilmen agreed during their annexation talks to meet again on August 3 at Mary Bethune Complex.
During the Wednesday night meeting, ground rules and expectations were discussed, according to county administrator Dan Sleeper.

Halifax Town Council voted in June to proceed with annexation, hoping to complete the process by December 31, 1999.
Proposed town boundaries would meet the Town of South Boston in the Centerville area, include Salishan and the Golf Course Road communities, include the Burlington plant, and move west up Mountain Road.
Halifax Town Council
In regular Tuesday night session, Halifax councilmen discussed parking violations downtown and along Maple Avenue as well as through traffic on Maple and Church Street.
Councilmen decided to wait until the new public parking lot adjacent to the Regional Jail opens before taking action, but did refer the issue to committee for study and report at the August meeting.
Councilman Sam Thompson asked for repairs along Houston Street in Halifax. He described water puddles and crumbling asphalt in a section where the parking area and street meet.
Councilmen also discussed sidewalk repair currently underway in front of the courthouse; were advised the Hot Rod Club plans an October meet in the town; and discussed increasing parking lot fees but took no action.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The Legislature approved a tax break for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Philip Morris Cos. with no way to ensure it will help protect North Carolina cigarette plant jobs as intended.
The proposal was approved by the House in a 108-9 vote Wednesday and goes to Gov. Jim Hunt for his signature. Legislative  researchers estimate the credits will cost the state up to $60 million by 2005, when the tax break would end. That number could be higher if tobacco exports boom.
The two companies could receive about $9 million a year in combined tax breaks for cigarettes they produce for export. The total amount of the credit would vary depending on how many cigarettes the companies produce.
The tax credit was included in a bill that also establishes a board of directors to oversee a $1.9 billion trust fund for the state's leaf growers and quota holders.
Supporters of the credits said tobacco remains a crucial part of the state economy that must be protected with job-encouraging tax breaks. Opponents contend the incentive plan amounts to a giveaway of taxpayer dollars to profitable corporations with few strings attached.
''I say to you this is a welfare payment to big corporations that we really shouldn't be making,'' said Rep. Paul Luebke, D-Durham.
Rep. Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston, called it unfair to paint the tax break as corporate welfare.
''The truth is that Philip Morris is the largest taxpayer in the United States,'' he said.
About 1,400 jobs at the two companies are linked to cigarette exports.
R.J. Reynolds is headquartered in Winston-Salem and has 6,400 workers in Forsyth County. All of the company's cigarette manufacturing operations are in North Carolina, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Philip Morris Co. employs about 2,500 in its Cabarrus County plant and is that county's largest taxpayer.
Supporters believe the tax break may prompt Philip Morris to move jobs to its Cabarrus County plant from a factory it is closing in Louisville, Ky.
But backers including Rep. Rex Baker, R-Stokes, a former RJR executive, said it would be possible for Philip Morris to claim the North Carolina tax credit for cigarettes made in other states.
Legislative bill drafters said Tuesday the state cannot restrict the tax break to cigarettes made in North Carolina because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said that the state cannot extend preferential tax treatment to companies that do business in the state.
A Philip Morris spokesman said the company had made no promises to claim tax credits only for North Carolina jobs.
''We have not made any assurances at all,'' spokesman Rusty Cheuvront said. ''We have not made any commitments regarding the tax credits.''
At a Tuesday hearing by the House Finance Committee, legislative researchers also warned the bill may violate international law and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the global trade treaty, by subsidizing exports. Other nations that produce cigarettes could petition the U.S. government to stop the tax credits or give them similar aid.
The research director for a Chapel Hill campaign reform group said the bill was largely written by an attorney for R.J. Reynolds. Bob Hall also suggested that Sen. Linda Garrou, D-Forsyth, who sponsored the provision, has a conflict of interest. Her husband is a managing partner for the law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, which works for RJR.
Garrou said she met with representatives from Reynolds and Philip Morris to work on some technical aspects of the bill, but denied any connection between her husband's job and the bill.
A Reynolds spokeswoman said the company has not retained Womble Carlyle to represent the company on the tax credits.

Looking out over 170 acres with the "white crosses all perfectly lined up," W. R. Snead Sr.'s eyes grew misty.
Some of his friends are there, high above wind-swept Omaha Beach.
His Bluefield buddy Robert Snell is there, forever in memory "the 20-year-old with cold black hair. The wonderful person."
A young Snead buried many of these soldiers, but not at the Normandy cemetery. He buried them near the beach.
Trained with the amphibious engineers, Snead hit Omaha Beach in the afternoon of D-Day, 1944.
His job was "to do whatever needed to be done on the beach for vehicles, trucks and tanks," and to get supplies moving inland.
But coming ashore, he saw dead GIs everywhere.
He and other Americans buried them nearby as soon as they could. Later, some of the Americans would be moved to the 9,386-grave Normandy cemetery. Others would be shipped home.
Until World War II, W.R. "Willie" Snead had never been more than 30 miles from his Danville home.
Still a teenager, young Snead first heard about World War II when he rode his bike to a Danville store one Sunday and heard men listening to President Roosevelt on the radio. It was Dec. 7, Pearl Harbor.
Two and one-half years later, he would hit the beach at Omaha.
"My first 10 or 15 years back home I blotted it completely out of my mind," recalled the veteran. "I never thought about it."
But when he does remember war, it is a noisy, turbulent hell he recalls, a D-Day that started with his ship sinking in rough seas.
"We were about 11 miles out from the beach when we were hit by another ship," he began.
A net was thrown from one craft to the next so that the men could cross over before the ship went down.
Soon they were on their way again,, low in the water as their craft took its cargo of men and weapons to war.
"All we could see was smoke and fire ...and the battleships pouring thousands of rounds per minute into German bunkers," recalled Snead.
When the craft's ramp finally opened, Snead and his buddies were in deep water fighting their way to shore.
In the sea around them and on the beaches ahead were fallen Americans.
"I remember very well one soldier inland," continued the veteran. "He had pulled out some pictures of his family. I guess he knew he just had a few minutes to live.
"It was intense. Shells were going off everywhere," added the veteran.
"We weren't looking back because there wasn't anywhere to go," said the soldier. "And we had fire in us.
"We had trained in Wales for five months, doing nothing but landings so we would know exactly what to do when we hit the beach. And I had trained at Ft. Bragg for nearly a year for the invasion. Once a soldier gets that training, there is nothing to do but push forward."
Still, overlooking the Normandy cemetery this summer, Snead was overcome by emotion.
"I just stood there and thanked God that he allowed me to come back home," said the veteran. "There was just a feeling on the cemetery grounds, knowing the husbands and sons lost.
"I wish every World War II veteran could go back," added Snead.
"Especially if they could go back with their family," added Snead's son Bill.
Fifty-five years after D-Day, Willie Snead did just that. He, his sons, Bill and Jimmy, and their wives, Linda and Cheryl, as well as his daughter, Carolyn Snead Bransby, returned to Normandy.
In the streets of St. Lo, French teenagers welcomed them. "Thank you for my freedom," said one when he learned Snead was a D-Day veteran.
"And he shook his hand. It sort of caught us off guard," recalled Bill Snead.
"I am 75 years old but I felt young, I felt good talking to those young folks," recalled the veteran.
The Sneads also found Robert W. Snell's cross in the cemetery, one bearing a June 11, 1944, date.
"They were brave young men who fought for their country," said Snead softly. "They sacrificed for the United States. I don't know why people today would burn the flag.
"If they would just go look at the cemetery ...such a reverent feeling you get there," added the veteran.
"I don't think an American could walk through that cemetery and not cry," said Bill Snead.
Along the Normandy coast, much remains the same today.
"The German bunkers are still there," said Snead. "There's no hotel, no motel, no swimming on Omaha and Utah. It's just like we left it ...only the Germans are gone."

The shriek and thunder of low flying jet planes may become commonplace to some Halifax County residents before too long when Air Force bombers streak overhead on their way to training missions in Dare County.
The U.S. Air Force is looking into the feasibility and environmental impact of having the trainee pilots traverse a 15-mile-wide training path stretching from the mountains of southwestern Virginia, continuing across the state and over Halifax County, through North Carolina at Person County and continuing east-southeast on a straight line through Granville and Vance counties to Dare County where the Air Force maintains a bombing range.
The Air Force would like to conduct these B-1 runs 96 times a year, or eight times a month.
At times the supersonic strategic bombers, which are part of the 116th Bombardment Wind stationed at Warner Robins Air Force Base south of Macon, Ga., will fly as low as 500 feet - close enough for the pilot to see farmers pointing up at him from the fields below, if he wasn't flying at speeds between 500 and 550 mph, that is.
The low altitude is necessary for navigation reasons, as the four-man bomber crews will use both instruments and visual cues to get them to the target.
While the Air Force already uses the skyway, the jet fighters flying over Halifax County are smaller, such as F-14 and F-15s, and travel at higher altitudes. Currently, bombers fly a different route when using the Dare County Range.
While some may not like the idea of a 200-ton fighter plane screaming across the sky, all they can do at this point to protest is to contact their local government officials, as the Air Force is not accepting comments from individual citizens at this time.
Currently Science Applications International Corp. has been hired to conduct an "environmental impact study."
"This study will look into any effect these flights might have on the ground, air, humans, flora, fauna - I mean everything," said Captain Sandy Troeber, a public-affairs officer at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia who added that the Air Force tries not to disturb people on the ground with flying missions. "There will also be public meetings held before any of these flights take place."

Two couples were charged following domestic disputes this week in Halifax County, according sheriff's reports.
Most recently, Lewis Randolph Martin, 38, and Tina Marie Martin, 37, both of 1029 Spencer Lane, Halifax, were charged with assault and battery after Halifax County Sheriff's deputies were called out to their home shortly after midnight Thursday morning.
Both are scheduled to appear in Halifax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court July 21.
A husband and wife were both charged with assault following a reported dispute Tuesday night.
Deputies charged Joy and John Thaxton of Route 924, Nathalie, with assault and battery after they called the sheriff's office with complaints.
Officials at the sheriff's office said Mrs. Thaxton called the office around 7 p.m. and reported that her husband was after her with a pistol.
A few minutes later Mr. Thaxton called and reportedly said Mrs. Thaxton was after him with a baseball bat.
When the three deputies responded to the home, they found Mr. Thaxton suffering from an injury to the back of his head. Mrs. Thaxton had no visible injuries, according to reports.
Protective orders were filed, and the couple will appear in Halifax Count Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court at a future date.

A South Boston woman convicted of possessing and attempting to obtain a Schedule III controlled substance without a valid prescription will remain free on bond until she is sentenced this fall.
Halifax County Circuit Court Judge Charles L. McCormick III Monday found Sherry Meade Hayes, 35, of Spruce Lane, South Boston, guilty of attempting to obtain Hydrocodone and possession of the Schedule III drug without a valid prescription.
Hayes, who pleaded guilty to both charges, was arrested after she went to the pharmacy at CVS in Hupps Mill last February and signed for the pain medication that had not been called in by a physician.
A store employee identified Hayes in the parking lot for a local police officer, who then arrested her.
Hayes will remain free on bond until a presentence report is prepared for the September term of Halifax County Circuit Court.
Monday McCormick also found Gregory Scott New guilty of two counts of grand larceny/embezzlement involving a money order and one count of embezzling less than $200 last February.
Court records indicated that New, 38, of Bold Springs Road, South Boston, pleaded guilty to stealing the money orders from The Jiffy Store on Wilborn Avenue in South Boston while he was an employee there and then selling them to other people for less than their face value.
The following day, an admitted crack cocaine user from Nathalie pleaded guilty to stealing from his uncle to pay for his habit.
Court documents indicated that Frank Seamster Jr., 30, of Cousin's Lane, Nathalie, admitted to stealing a VCR, a .20 gauge shotgun and numerous tools from his uncle, Elijah Granville Seamster, when he ran out of money to pay for crack cocaine in February and March of this year.
Circuit Court Judge William L. Wellons found Seamster guilty of one count of grand larceny and two counts of petit larceny.
An evaluation and presentence report was ordered.
Wednesday, Wellons found Sandra Faucette, 34, of East Hyco Road, South Boston, guilty of possessing a Schedule II controlled substance, namely cocaine January 2.
Faucette, who pleaded guilty, will remain free on bond until she is sentence in September.
Howard Anderson Yancey, 28, of Red Bank Road, Virgilina, pleaded not guilty to possessing a firearm after being convicted of a felony, but was found guilty and will be made to forfeit the guns when he is sentenced in September.
Wellons ordered that Yancey be allowed to remain free on bond until that time.
Also Wednesday, Joseph Dewayne Johnson, 24, of Danville, was convicted of stealing gasoline and driving after being declared an habitual offender.
Wellons nol prossed charges of reckless driving and eluding police and ordered Johnson remanded to the Blue Ridge Regional Adult Detention center pending the outcome of his sentencing hearing in September.
Although Howard Clark Jr., 43, of Stith Lane, Clover, pleaded not guilty to writing a bad check for $665.67 to Lightweight Block Co. October 20 of last year, Wellons found him guilty as charged.
Clark will remain free on bond until he is sentence in September.

REMINGTON, Va. (AP) - A series of power plants proposed near the sprawling northern Virginia suburbs is raising concerns that the already borderline air quality in the region and northward would suffer.
Virginia Power and Old Dominion Electric Cooperative each have proposed natural gas-powered plants in outlying areas of the region. They say they want to position themselves for the impending deregulation of the power industry and meet growing demand for electricity in one of the nation's fastest-growing regions.
A 600-megawatt Virginia Power plant is under contruction near Remington in southern Fauquier County. The other plants are under consideration, including another Virginia Power plant near Ladysmith in Caroline County and Old Dominion plants in Remington and near Boswells Tavern in Louisa County.
The plants are all located from 10 to 40 miles outside a regional smog-reduction area near Washington, but Environmental  Protection Agency officials have warned the state that the impact of the plants could be felt within that zone.
''I am concerned that a pattern of development is emerging, either through design or circumstance, that could circumvent the level of protection Congress intended'' with the Clean Air Act, EPA Administrator W. Michael McCabe wrote to Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources John Paul Woodley recently.
McCabe said the EPA must be informed of power plant permit applications.
Power company officials insist the locations for the plants have everything to do with convenience and nothing to do with avoiding the smog restrictions.
''These sites are near, if not adjacent to, the intersection of natural gas pipelines and high voltage transmission lines. It has nothing to do with the location of the zones,'' said Virginia Power spokesman Jim Norville.
''These are ideal locations for these types of power plants - close to a fuel source and they can hook right into a transmission system,'' Norville said.
Within the nearby zones, emissions of smog-producing nitrogen oxides from any new power plants would have to be offset by reductions elsewhere. Nitrogen oxides have been linked to respiratory problems in elderly people and children.
Virginia officials said it's too early to determine what effect the plants would have on air quality, and note that only one plant is being built.
Officials in Washington and Maryland, though, remain concerned.
''Our ability to attain (pollution limits) is affected by the upwind states,'' said Merrylin Zaw-Mon, a Maryland Department of the Environment official. ''Virginia has to do its part.''

Mary Lovelace Wade of Hampton died Tuesday, July 13, 1999 at Hampton General Hospital at the age of 79.
Mrs. Wade was born in Halifax County on May 5, 1920.
Survivors include one daughter, Jennie Ballou of Halifax; one son, Billy Lovelace of Hampton; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs. Wade will be held today, July 16 at 2 p.m. at St. Paul CME Church in Halifax with Rev. George Brown officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.

James Edmunds, 52, of 1596 Ringgold Depot Road, Ringgold died Wednesday, July 14, 1999 at Danville Regional Medical Center.
Mr. Edmunds was born November 14, 1946 in Halifax County the son of Charlie H. Edmunds Sr. and Martha Williams Edmunds and was married to Lucinda Penick Edmunds. He was employed as a welder at Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Katina M. Richmond of Greensboro, NC and Kimberly Renee Edmunds of Richmond; two sons, James Allen Edmunds of Aviano, Italy and Jeffrey Olando Edmunds of Ringgold; one brother, Charlie H. Edmunds Jr. of Columbus, OH.
Funeral services for Mr. Edmunds will be conducted Saturday, July 17 at 1 p.m. from New Arbor Baptist Church, South Boston with Rev. Nelson C. Stamps officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.The family will receive friends at the home.