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Christmas Pet Parade brings nearly 60 pets to Urbanna

Nearly 60 pets brought their humans to the 3rd Annual Urbanna Children and Pet Parade on December 21. With tails wagging, “man’s best friends” were in dog heaven as they led their owners down Virginia Street to the town...

Tables available for Feb. 29 Mardi Gras

Only 50 days until Mardi Gras! This year’s Middlesex Mardi Gras promises to be a festive evening filled with good food and drink, great music and dancing, and a chance to take home auction items that all will enjoy....

Suicide Prevention Task Force to meet

A Suicide Prevention Awareness and Opioid Misuse Awareness Task Force meeting will be held on Thursday, February 13, in the Bay Aging meeting room, 5959 Fiddlers Green Rd., Gloucester. The suicide prevention meeting will be from 2-3 p.m., and the...

Fairfield Foundation dig at the Gressit House in Urbanna

Fairfield Foundation team Members of the Fairfield Foundation team conducting an archeological dig at the Gressitt House in Urbanna, are, from left, Dave Brown, Ashley McCustion, Anna Rhodes and Thane Harpole. The team found a brick foundation behind the 18th-century...

Bay Aging delivers gifts

As they did last year, Bay Aging partnered with Home Instead Senior Care to provide 142 deserving seniors across the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula with gifts this holiday season.  With nearly 340 residents in Bay Aging’s income-restricted senior...

Artist focuses her mixed media work on women

With a life-long interest in doodling, drawing and painting women’s faces, Deltaville artist JLyn Henderson recently retired as an interior designer to direct her fulltime attention to painting. Originally from California, Henderson worked as an award-winning residential and commercial interior...

Turner Lecture Series to begin

by Bill Powell Events Director Deltaville Maritime Museum –  As staff and volunteers at the Deltaville Maritime Museum & Holly Point Nature Park prepare the museum and park for the official events season opening in April and May, the museum begins its...

3rd Annual Urbanna Christmas Children & Pets Parade

There were approximately 50 pets in the parade this year. The number of entries has doubled each year. Take a look at this year's winners and be sure to bring your pet next year not to compete but to...

Christmas in Middlesex County, Virginia

The “Deltaville Lights” Christmas display appears to be in a snow globe when framed by a window in a trolley that transported riders to the Jackson Creek Christmas Cruise last Friday. The light display by Stephen Blue, with a...

Dockside Inn reopens

by Larry Chowning –  Dockside Inn, a longtime motel and lodging facility in Deltaville, has reopened with new ownership and new management. Shawn Adair and Randy Snider of Powhatan met and became friends while in middle school. They grew up to...

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