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by Bill Powell Events Director Deltaville Maritime Museum Yes, this year’s Holly Point Art & Seafood Festival has lots of food, sea and otherwise, but that’s just part of the fun. There’s also original art, a cruise-in of classic cars, free...

Oyster Festival Queen contestant Danielle Jones and her Little Miss Spat contestant Jillian Major teamed up to help raise money for the Deltaville Sharks swim team. Both are members of the team and have been for 3 years. Both...

On Saturday, October 12, “The Tidewater Trio” will open the Rappahannock Concert Association’s 2019-2020 concert season. The concert at the Northumberland County Schools’ Performing Arts Theater on Academic Lane will begin at 7:30 p.m.  Oboist Michael Philpotts, bassoonist Hugh Michie,...

About 40 descendants of GTB “Gam” Miller and Jeter W. Blake gathered on the banks of Locklies Creek in Topping last Saturday at the home of Alta and the late Dabney Nevelle Miller. The Millers and Blakes made their...

Marissa Halbig Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant Marissa Halbig and her Little Miss Spat contestant Skylar Beverley are still working hard on their art supply bag program for the less fortunate youth in our community. Halbig believes exposing children...

by Stan Coloff, President, Friends of the Deltaville Library Thanks to all the Friends of the Deltaville Library Board, members and family members who helped put on the best book sale in a long, long time. One hundred bags of books...

by Bill Powell Events Director Deltaville Maritime Museum –  I’ve been trying to get bluegrass music back in the mix for the Groovin’ in the Park concerts for the last couple of years and I am happy to announce the appearance of...

Watercolors are the star in the October art exhibition featuring works by Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury (RWC) residents this year. The annual show displays work they completed over the past year in longtime teacher Pam Bowers’ art classes at RWC in...

Every month The Bay School Community Arts Center in Mathews will feature an Artist of the month. The September Artist of the Month is Gary Edmondson. There are six paintings by Gary Edmondson that will hang in the gallery through...

The Queen and Little Miss Spat contestants for 2019 include in alphabetical order: Katherine Campbell and Riley Prete, Amber Daughtry and Adalyn Parsley, Marissa Halbig and Skylar Beverley, Danielle Jones and Jillian Major, Caroline Painter and Sophia Watson, Abby...