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It’s time for the 15th annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park in Deltaville! Put on your favorite Easter bonnet, grab your Easter basket or bag, write a sonnet and bring the whole...

At a recent meeting of the Middlesex County Rotary Club, Rene’ Laws, Rotary District 7610 governor, delivered an exciting message of the future of Rotary and its activities with “Service Above Self.” Meeting attendees include, from left, Ann de...

Luann Johnson and Pat Anderson recently installed bluebird nest boxes at St. Clare Walker Middle School and Middlesex Elementary School. A third nest box is planned for Middlesex High School. Special cameras that will transmit live images of nesting birds...

by Michael Kunzinger -  Wednesday, April 10 is National Bookmobile Day. To celebrate, the Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system invites the public to an open house on its newly acquired bookmobile. The bookmobile will be open for visitors at MCPLs...

The Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park encourage all to mark their calendars as DMM announces updates to its 2024 events schedule and attractions for this March and April. New exhibits for both inside and outside...

(First in a special two-part series.) In 2014, Urbanna’s annual Art on the Half Shell (AOTHS) fine arts show was years gone, and the once vibrant local arts scene was flat. Newly hired Middlesex County Economic Development Authority (EDA) Director...

The Middlesex County Woman’s Club’s (MCWC) annual Before Easter Pound Cake Sale is set for 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, March 30, at the MCWC clubhouse (the old colonial courthouse) on Virginia Street in Urbanna. MCWC members are busy baking and...

As the Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park presents our final lecture of the annual Turner series this Sunday, March 17, promptly at 2 p.m., Master Naturalist Betsy  Washington presents, “Native Plants — Beauty, Birds and...

Get ready for the unusual, the unexpected, and to be amazed when the Lewis and Clark Circus rolls into Urbanna on Wednesday and Thursday, April 24 and 25. There will be two shows each day — at 5 and...

The movie “The Holdovers” was nominated for four Academy Awards and Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who played the role of a cook (Mary Lamb), won Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars on Sunday, March 10. The Middlesex County connection to “The...