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Apply now to join Arts in the Middle 2022 local artist tent

Applications are open for Arts in the Middle’s local artist tent for the 2022 festival. Presented just outside Urbanna, Arts in the Middle is consistently rated one of the best outdoor art shows in Virginia. It is a perennial favorite...

COVID-19 continues to plague Middlesex school students, staff

by Larry Chowning - Although cases went down last week, COVID-19 continues to plague the Middlesex County Public Schools as there were 19 active cases in school buildings and on buses and 50 close contacts, resulting in quarantines. “We continue...

Holly Horton named new director of Middlesex County Museum

The Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society announces the addition of Holly Horton as its new director starting this month. Horton worked with the museum in the past upon completion of her master’s degree in Museum Studies from Johns...

Beanstack coming to libraries soon

by Tom Samuel - The Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system is pleased to announce that we will be offering Beanstack starting Feb. 1. Beanstack is an innovative web platform/mobile “app”-based program designed to engage people of all ages...

Harbor Freight Tools store to open in Essex

Harbor Freight Tools, America’s go-to store for quality tools at the lowest prices, will officially open its new store in Tappahannock on Saturday, Feb. 5, at 8 a.m. The Tappahannock store, located at 1362 Tappahannock Blvd., is the 35th Harbor...

Urbanna’s Liz Buxton named new director of Fishermen’s Museum

Liz Buxton has been appointed the new executive director of the Reedville Fisherman’s Museum. A graduate of St. Margaret’s School in Tappahannock, and the College of Charleston in South Carolina, she grew up in Middlesex County and other Middle...

Small act of kindness returned in big way

Area’s food pantries, including in Middlesex, among those to benefit by Jackie Nunnery - For Jean-Carlo Gachet, it is normally an eight- to 10-hour trip from Chesterfield, where he is a driver for Abilene Motor Express, to Savannah, Ga., and...

“Eat Like a Local” program expanding into Middlesex County

The Town of Kilmarnock is spearheading a local initiative encouraging the community to support local restaurants, especially Jan. 21 through 31. What started as “Kilmarnock Restaurant Week — Eat Like a Local” is now expanding throughout the lower Northern Neck...

New year brings new books to Deltaville and Urbanna libraries

by Tom Samuel - The Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system has received a number of new and interesting books to help you get your 2022 reading off to a great start. It’s added recent releases of a range...

Middlesex NAACP observes MLK Day with Zoom event

by Tom Chillemi - Robert West, the featured speaker at the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration conducted “virtually” by the Middlesex NAACP Unit 7091, chose this King quote to emphasize King’s legacy. “Darkness cannot drive out...

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