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Wings, Wheels & Keels on Saturday, September 28, at Hummel Air Field in Topping will have a great mix of boats on display that should appeal to everyone, said boat chair Buzz Jones. The variety includes race boats, home-builts, classics,...

Middlesex County Administrator Matt Walker notified supervisors on Tuesday, September 3, that the New Kent and King and Queen public school systems have had “cyber ransomware” attacks and their school records are being held ransom. Hackers have locked all of...

The Middlesex County School Board is proud to announce the appointment of its first student school board representative, Autumn Ortmann. Officially approved during the September 9 school board meeting by unanimous vote, Autumn will begin her work with the...

Construction of the new Middlesex High School maintenance/equipment building in Saluda is well under way. The building is designed to free up the current athletic equipment room at MHS so it can house the high school wrestling team. The...

Bay Transit, a division of Bay Aging, reported that with support from Bethpage Camp-Resort that eliminated fares on the Urbanna trolley throughout the recently concluded 2019 season, trolley ridership nearly doubled. During the 2019 trolley season, over 3,500 residents and...

by Larry Chowning Twenty-six year Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation volunteer Karen Ambrose has been named grand marshal of the 62nd annual Urbanna Oyster Festival to be held on Friday and Saturday, November 1-2. Ambrose started her volunteer stint with the festival...

The presidential yacht “USS Sequoia” (above) is about to leave Chesapeake Boat Works in Deltaville bound for Belfast, Maine. French & Webb Inc., a custom boatbuilder in Belfast, will restore the yacht. It will be loaded onto a barge...

by Tom Chillemi Anguish was evident on the faces of the victim’s family members as they entered Middlesex Circuit Court for the sentencing hearing of convicted murderer Alvin Bernard Keyser, 24, of Topping. Eighteen months has passed since Keyser strangled Terri...

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors presented a plaque of recognition to Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff Chelsi Blake for “perseverance and action beyond the call of duty on August 19, 2019.” When a man suffered a heart attack at...

by Larry Chowning Middlesex County natives and musicians Sherman Holmes, Theodore Braxton, the late James Curtis and the late Wendell Holmes were honored Saturday night at the Labor Day “Get Out The Vote” R&B concert in Urbanna for their contribution...