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Church Briefs: February 8, 2024

During February, the Middlesex County chapter of the NAACP is celebrating NAACP Founders Day and Black History Month. Join them Saturday, Feb. 10 from...

Place-based learning highlights marine ecology

A marine science thread runs through the curriculum at Chesapeake Academy (CA) in Irvington. Students begin to explore local ecosystems with dip nets and...

Dragon Run Nature Walk rescheduled for Feb. 11

The Friends of Dragon Run (FODR) Nature Walk that was rained out, has been rescheduled for Sunday, Feb. 11, from 1 to 3 p.m....

Great Decisions program to examine U.S.-China trade rivalry

China’s economic rise and its current policies of increasing the role of the state in the economy have led some U.S. policymakers to seek...

Urbanna Post Office quilt program salutes Black History Month

Before 1860, America captured about 4 million Black people from Africa and brought them to America to be sold as slaves. From the beginning,...

Wittman, Va. delegation press Postal Service on mail delays

U.S. Rep. Rob Wittman, R-1st Dist., joined a bipartisan group of Virginia lawmakers in pressing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on the mail delivery...

Deaconess Mary Eunice Ackes

Deaconess Mary Eunice Ackes was born Feb. 20, 1932 to the late Charlie and Mary Hodges Burrell in Jamaica, Va. She was the ninth...

D’ville Great Decisions’ ‘Understanding Indonesia’ set for Feb. 2

Ambassador Scot Marciel will give a talk entitled “Understanding Indonesia,” as the second in the 2024 Deltaville Great Decisions lecture series. The talk is...

Gov. Youngkin announces blue catfish processing grant award

Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced this week that Sea Farms Inc. is being awarded $250,000 through the inaugural funding of the Governor’s Blue Catfish Processing,...

File early, online to avoid fraud, receive faster refunds

Virginia Tax has announced that tax filing season in Virginia is now under way. Taxpayers are now able to file their individual income tax...

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