Oyster Festival crowns Queen and Little Miss Spat
Kendall McNamee was crowned Queen of 52nd annual Urbanna Oyster Festival Friday and Katie Brooke was selected Little Miss Spat. Susan Heyman was first runner-up in the Queen competition, and Libbie Randolph was second runner-up.
posted 11.07.2009
Let the festival begin!
More than 100 vendors, five entertainment stages and two parades equal one fantastic festival—the 52nd Urbanna Oyster Festival this Friday and Saturday, November 6-7. Oysters fresh from the Rappahannock River will be available again. The bounty that sustained locals for centuries is being dredged just a few miles from Urbanna.
posted 11.04.2009
Rappahannock River oysters will be at festival
Most of the oysters at the Urbanna Oyster Festival this year will be local oysters harvested in the Rappahannock and Potomac rivers and Chesapeake Bay. The Oyster Festival was started 52 years ago as a way to honor an industry that played such a dynamic role in the economic life of the Town of Urbanna and Middlesex County.
posted 11.04.2009
Town dog confinement begins Monday
Starting November 9 and continuing through November 18, dogs in Urbanna must be “confined to the homes or lots of their owners,” under a provision of the town code. Dogs can be walked on a leash or “under immediate control” during the confinement period.
posted 11.04.2009
Methadone dealer receives 20-year sentence
Taylor Drew Munson, 22, of Deltaville was sentenced this week to 20 years of imprisonment for distribution of methadone. Munson admitted that from approximately April 2008 through March 3, 2009, he illegally distributed to others liquid methadone that had been prescribed for his own use.
posted 11.03.2009
