Community
Great Gatsby Adult Prom set for Saturday at Bethpage
Enjoy a night out while raising funds for the Middlesex High School Junior/Senior prom. The Great Gatsby Adult Prom, sponsored by Middlesex County Rotary Club Kids Plus, will be presented 6-11 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at the Bethpage Campground Pavilion (679 Browns Lane,...
Middlesex now experiencing high COVID-19 levels
CDC: Wear a mask indoors in public in high case areas (like Middlesex)
Middlesex County last week jumped into the high level for COVID-19 cases, based on Centers for Disease Control (CDC) criteria. It joins all the other counties in...
“White stuff” on Urbanna waterway piques curiosity
Urbanna resident Myra Wagner looked out the kitchen window of her Browns Lane home recently and saw something that caught her eye. “I saw this long line of white stuff in Robinson Creek,” she wrote in an email to...
Apply now for AIM fest spot
Applications are open for Arts in the Middle’s Local Artist Tent for 2023.
The Arts in the Middle (AIM) festival, presented just outside Urbanna, is consistently rated one of the best art shows in eastern Virginia, and a universal favorite...
Plumber shortage leads to backlog, higher prices for MWA customers
The Middlesex Water Authority (MWA) system serving central and eastern Middlesex County is nearly complete and will come in at a cost of $29.4 million, MWA Executive Director Jim Nagy reported to the Middlesex Board of Supervisors during...
Supervisors OK $36,000 in Black heritage signage along Cooks Corner trail
by Larry Chowning -
The Heritage Committee is seeking Virginia Landmarks Register (VLR) status for the Cooks Corner community through the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (DHR).
The committee was formed in 2019 and is made up of alumni of...
Deltaville boat explosion
“Captain Billy Wyatt, 78, of Topping, lost the legendary Sundancer II on Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022.
He had been fishing the Rappahannock River for nearly 60 years when on a normal winter morning while gearing up for one of the...
Efforts bubbling up again for ginger ale return
by Jackie Nunnery -
The Northern Neck Foundation (NNF) has been created with a goal of bringing back the beloved Northern Neck Ginger Ale, a product of Westmoreland County for nearly a century.
The group, whose board of directors includes...
Maritime Museum Boat Shop Director to start series with boatbuilding talk
Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park opens its 2023 Turner Lecture Series with a presentation on Sunday, Jan. 8, at 2 p.m. DMM Boat Shop Director John England will lay out the history of museum boatbuilding,...
Christmas Friends completes its 37th year spreading joy
The busy pace for Christmas Friends that began in early November came to a happy end Saturday with the delivery of gifts to 213 needy children and 71 senior adults in Middlesex County.
Volunteers in vans and trucks carrying the...
