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U.S. Rep. Robert Wittman, R-1st Dist., incumbent, and Democratic challenger Herb Jones, will speak at the Northern Neck Chapter 1823 National Active and Retired Federal Employees’ (NARFE) annual fall picnic on Tuesday, Sept. 6. The picnic will begin at noon...

Middle Peninsula Master Naturalists (MPMN) conducted a graduation event earlier this summer at Machicomoco State Park. This is the third graduating class for this new Master Naturalists’ chapter, which was established in 2019. The new enthusiast citizen scientists include,...

Firefighters and many others from the community gathered Saturday in Urbanna for a memorial service for longtime firefighter Keith Townsend. Townsend died on June 17. Townsend was a beloved firefighter who voluntarily served the Urbanna-based Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department (MVFD)...

The Town of Urbanna’s annual Founders Day celebration is set for this Saturday, Aug. 6. Costumed, colonial-style fife and drum musicians and the “town crier’s” proclamation reading will open the day’s activities at 51 Cross St., the Taylor building, at...

Nearly 30 youth have been participating in this month’s Lancaster Players Youth Theatre Workshop in White Stone. Their production of “Law and Order: Fairy Tale Unit” by Jonathan Rand will be presented at 3 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, at The Playhouse,...

A jury scam continues to make its way through the state, reported Amanda M. Howie, administrator with the Virginia Association of Commonwealth’s Attorneys (VACA). The most recent jury scam report comes from Montgomery County, she said in an email this...

(Editor’s note: The Deltaville Maritime Museum’s restored and nationally historic registered log buyboat F.D. Crockett is one of eight restored buyboats and other historic craft that are this summer visiting visiting Onancock, Horn Harbor in Mathews, Smithfield Station,...

Middlesex County Museum’s special open house for its new “Middlesex Early Inhabitants” exhibit is set for 1-3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7. The exhibit showcases fossils and Native American artifacts found in the waters and soils of Virginia. This family...

Urbanna Oyster Festival queen contestant, Sara Hale, and her Little Miss Spat co-contestant, Piper Gill, will host a bake sale set for 7 p.m. this Saturday, July 30, at the Deltaville Deltas baseball game at Deltaville Ballpark. During the game,...

The car of a missing man who has multiple Middlesex County connections has been found. Juan G. Ward, 53, who has been missing since May 25, was last seen in Woodbridge in northern Virginia. Ward, who is the son of Elizabeth Ward and...