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Thanksgiving is on its way, and with it comes Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park’s Holiday Gift Market, which happens on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. This DMM’s “shopper friendly” local...

by Tom Chillemi -  Lindsay Gregory was attending her first Urbanna Oyster Festival on Friday, Nov. 5, with her boyfriend Mike Jones, who’d been to many festivals since the 1980s. Jones, a visitor from Illinois, had planned a surprise. After...

Urbanna Oyster Festival grand marshal Tom Hardin, left, was honored by Festival Chairman Dick Goyne and Festival Coordinator Pam Simon at the Oyster Festival Volunteers Appreciation Reception the evening of Friday, Nov. 12 at Portside Grill in Urbanna. The...

The 2021 Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen Madysen Davis and Little Miss Spat Emalynn Norwood receive recognition from Festival Chairman Dick Goyne during a special Friday, Nov. 12, reception at Portside Grill restaurant in Urbanna. (Photo by Larry Chowning)

Crabs have been scarce this year. Still, Jamie Barnhardt of Hartfield managed to catch this one-of-a-kind crab with double claws on the Piankatank River this past summer. (This photo originally appeared in the September Rivah Visitor’s Guide.) (Photo by...

Co-contestant Emalynn Norwood crowned festival’s Little Miss Spat by Tom Chillemi -  Madysen Davis was crowned Queen of the 64th Urbanna Oyster Festival and Emalynn Norwood was crowned Little Miss Spat at the Urbanna firehouse on Friday, Nov. 5. As the...

Urbanna Oyster Festival officials released results Monday for the Nov. 5 and 6 event’s shucking contest, Fireman’s and Festival parades and antique cars show.  Oyster Shucking Contest Overall first place — Isabella “Gator” Macbeth, Virginia Beach, two minutes, 46 seconds. ...

The year of 1946 was just about 80 years since the Civil War ended and Middlesex County Blacks had been delivered from the bondage of slavery with the ending of the war. In 1946, the first Black-owned waterfront subdivision was created by Dr. M.E. Toney Sr. of Middlesex and Dr. George W. White of Norfolk.

by Larry Chowning -  Many around the Town of Urbanna and the surrounding community know Uno, a loving one-eyed part-Keeshond breed of a dog that survived in the dog-fighting culture as a bait dog. Dina Parry of Urbanna was running Dinas Doggie...

Middlesex Elementary School and the MES PTO hosted their annual Fall Festival Thursday, Oct. 28, on school grounds. More than 1,200 people were in attendance including students, families, staff and community leaders.