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All dogs in parade must have current rabies vaccination
For those attending the Middlesex Kiwanis Club-sponsored 2021 Urbanna Pets and Children Christmas Parade with your dog, a welcome is extended. However, parade organizers ask you to please note you will need to have a current dog license number...
Creek cruises in Deltaville are expected to sell out
Tickets for the annual Jackson Creek Cruise are just about sold out. The cruises will run from 4:15-8:45 p.m. every 45 minutes on Friday, Dec. 10.
Holiday Gift Market set for Nov. 27 at D’ville Maritime Museum
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...
Man pops question at Oyster Fest concert
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...
Hardin saluted at festival reception
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...
Oyster Fest queen duo recognized
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)
Weird crab caught on Piankatank
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...
Madysen Davis crowned Queen of Oyster Fest
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...
Results announced for 2021 Oyster Fest
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.
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Black-friendly Beverly Beach boasts interesting background
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.
