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by Larry Chowning The eighth annual Urbanna Founders Day celebration will be presented on Saturday, August 7, to commemorate the colonial history of the Town of Urbanna. The town was created in June 1680 on paper by the Colonial Assembly through...

by Tom Chillemi The 2021 Virginia Agricultural Expo on August 5 will be presented at Corbin Hall Farm, “the birthplace of ag expos,” said Ronnie Russell, who has worked this farm more than 50 years. In 1959 W.R. Harrell of St....

Thanks to citizens’ tips and a quick thinking youth, the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has arrested and charged an Urbanna area man with taking indecent liberties with a child, reported Major M.E. Sampson of the MCSO. According to Maj....

by Tom Chillemi At the July 22 regular monthly Urbanna Town Council meeting, citizens shared their distain for a plan that would remove the house at 215 Linden Avenue in Urbanna and put a sewage pump station in a residential...

by Larry Chowning     There was standing room only under a large tent in the Deltaville Community Center parking lot Saturday as more than 100 people attended the dedication and celebration of the Stingray Point Contraband Virginia Historic Road...

“If you have information, no matter how small or insignificant it might be, it could be important. Please contact us on the Crime Line at  804-758-5600.” — Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office by Tom Chillemi July 11, 2021, marked four years since Margaret...

by Larry Chowning      The Chesapeake Bay Buyboat Association will present its 17th annual buyboat rendezvous from July 30-Aug. 8. The tour will start in Urbanna at the town-owned marina at the foot of Virginia Street on Urbanna Creek...

by Sherry Hamilton The U.S. Coast Guard is making plans to downgrade the status of the Milford Haven Coast Guard Station in Mathews from a small boat station to a seasonal station, open only six months a year. According to...

by Larry Chowning The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) voted 3-2 to remove the granite Confederate monument in the southwest corner of the courthouse green at the Historic Middlesex County Courthouse at a board meeting on Tuesday, July 6. Hartfield...

by Tom Chillemi Virginia’s Attorney General Mark R. Herring has issued his opinion that Urbanna’s mayor “is authorized to vote in proceedings of the council in the same fashion as other members of the council.” The town council had voted earlier...