News

Meet the candidates for the 2020 Urbanna town elections and hear their responses to random questions written by local townsfolk and moderated by retiring town councilor George DeVries.

Topping pilot escapes injury after WWI replica’s engine quits by Tom Chillemi -  “If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing,” said U.S. Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager. “If you can use the airplane the next...

A little more than 20 years ago a group of Middlesex County residents and religious leaders gathered together and formed the Middlesex Habitat for Humanity chapter. The goal then, as it is today, was to give families a chance...

Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) crews work on damaged railings Monday on the Beryl R. (Dick) Newman Memorial Bridge across Urbanna Creek. The bridge, built in 1957, was the first bridge in the state constructed using pre-stressed concrete both...

by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) is the only governing body out of nine not to approve a letter to Virginia Department of Conservation Resources (DCR) requesting an eligibility criteria study of the lower Rappahannock...

by Tom Chillemi -  The Urbanna Town Council will meet electronically on Thursday, Oct. 8 at 10 a.m. Join the meeting on your phone by dialing 1(571)317-3122. When prompted insert Access Code: 277-765-941.  There will be a public comment period. On the agenda is...

Lost power after taking off from Hummel Field by Don Richeson -  BREAKING NEWS — World War I’s deadliest fighter pilot — German Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, nicknamed the “Red Baron” — was known for getting out of scrapes again...

Urbanna neighbors team up to transform overgrown area by Tom Chillemi -  Sprucing up Urbanna’s Waterman’s Park began with neighbors talking about a facelift for the “pocket park” located at the end of Colorado Avenue. After 20 years plants had overgrown in...

Middlesex schools get windfall from selling energy certificates to Sun Tribe Solar by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex County Public School (MCPS) system’s pioneer efforts in establishing solar energy at all three county school facilities are paying off. At the Middlesex...

by Tom Chillemi -  An ordinance regulating short-term rental properties will now go to the Urbanna Town Council. On Sept. 22, the Urbanna Planning Commission conducted a “virtual” public hearing on the proposed ordinance at which no member of the public...