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by Don Richeson -  Nearly 4,000 Middlesex County locations lost power multiple times Tuesday after a vehicle knocked down a power pole along General Puller Highway (Route 33) near the entrance to Christchurch School a little after 2 p.m. The...

Work on $15 million project may start as soon as this fall by Tom Chillemi -  Bringing drinking water to central and eastern Middlesex County took a major step this week when the Middlesex Water Authority (MWA) received clearance to seek...

by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors learned at its regular monthly meeting on July 7 the county has been awarded a $150,000 planning grant from the Virginia Port Authority (VPA) to study dredging of Parrott’s Creek...

by Don Richeson -  A Middlesex County man and woman are dead following a crash in Middlesex early Saturday morning. The pair was killed on impact when the 2003 Volkswagen convertible they were riding in collided head-on with a Kenworth...

by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors has been asked by a local NAACP member to remove the 1910 Daughters of the Confederacy monument on the courthouse green, along with other items associated with the Confederacy inside...

by Larry Chowning -  The portion of a lawsuit filed against Middlesex County and individual board of supervisors members on Oct. 7, 2019 concerning a plane crash into a home near Hummel Field in Topping in 2017 was dismissed by...

by Tom Chillemi -  The Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) plans to build a “forced main” from Saluda to Topping and Deltaville that will collect wastewater and pump it to Yorktown for treatment.    This will be a forced main so...

by Tom Chillemi -  The 2020 Urbanna Oyster Festival has been cancelled. However, some aspects of it may still be offered. The Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation issued the following statement last week: “After a health and safety meeting with the Middlesex County...

by Don Richeson -  The 63rd annual Urbanna Oyster Festival, originally set for this coming Nov. 6 and 7, has been canceled, Wayne Jessie, chairman of the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors and a festival board member, said at the...

by Tom Chillemi -  The search continues for who killed Margaret “Peggy” Lammers, who was found murdered in her family’s vacation home in Deltaville on July 11, 2017. Initially there were fears by local residents that a killer was loose in...