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by Tom Chillemi -  The Urbanna Town Council is seeking grants to help pay for a new well, a new community swimming pool and other Taber Park improvements. One requirement is for council to conduct a public hearing, which has been...

Town of Urbanna 2021/2022 Committee/Board Appointments Planning Commission Name Email Term Expires Roy Kime-Staff r.kime@urbannava.gov Merri Hanson (Council Member) m.hanson@urbannava.gov 22 Alana Courtney papeterie@verizon.net 23 Donald Drayer donlcgmu@gmail.com 24 William (Henry) Dunton hdunton@gmail.com 23 Wanda Hollberg (prefers texts) whollberg@gmail.com 22 Penelope (Gari) Lister garilister@hotmail.com 24 Historic Architecture Review Board Name Email Term Expires Roy Kime-Staff r.kime@urbannava.gov Barbara Hartley (Mayor) b.hartley@urbannava.gov 22 Peni Roberts peni.roberts@verizon.net 24 Meriwhether (Tammy) Putney putney@va.metrocast.net 24 Patricia Wheeler pattyree7001@yahoo.com 23 Wanda Hollberg (prefers texts) whollberg@gmail.com 22 Board of...

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors voiced concern at its regular May meeting that drivers are not slowing down in work areas along General Puller Highway (Route 33), including at this work zone in Saluda. This is creating dangerous...

Jamaica, other unserved areas, to get fiber system in two years by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex Broadband Authority (MBA) is considering a memorandum of understanding with Dominion Energy (DE) and All Points Broadband last month to provide Fiber to...

by Tom Chillemi -  “Land application” of treated wastewater in Middlesex County has been talked about for years. Land application is an alternative to discharging the treated water into a river or creek. The Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) has committed...

by Tom Chillemi -  On the ballot for the Nov. 2 General Election are the Saluda and Hartfield district seats on the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors and the Middlesex School Board. There is also a special election to choose...

by Don Richeson -  A Middlesex County crash claimed the life of a Cooks Corner man Saturday. Cornelius Keonte Owens, 25, was killed when the 2002 Jeep Cherokee he was driving ran off General Puller Highway (Route 33), struck a ditch...

According to authorities, the pipeline’s closing was in response to a ransomware attack, in which a computer system’s data are held hostage until a ransom is paid. Colonial experienced such an attack. The FBI has reportedly linked it to...

by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex County Public Schools community received word on Thursday, May 6, that an individual last in a school building on Monday, May 3, had tested positive for COVID-19. The notification came in an email from School...

by Larry Chowning -    The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) agreed Tuesday, May 4, to resume open, in-person, public board meetings and to allow the public to do business inside courthouse buildings, providing face coverings are worn. The board...