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by Tom Chillemi –  The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors recently approved a special exception submitted by Sun Tribe Solar for a small utility scale solar energy facility on 60 acres at Hartfield. Emerging from the supervisors’ discussion at their February...

According to the King and Queen County Sheriff’s office, at approximately 1 p.m. on Monday, February 24, the King and Queen Central High School administration made the school resource officer aware of a potential weapon inside the school. The...

As the final step in a multi-year process, Omega Protein has officially moved its corporate headquarters to Reedville, from Houston, Texas. As part of the move, additional employees have been added to the workforce, following a major renovation and reinvestment...

One of the first stories on civil rights pioneer Irene Morgan of Gloucester appeared in the Southside Sentinel on January 16, 1992. That story is reprinted below to celebrate Black History Month. by Tom Chillemi –  One of the most important...

The Middlesex Rotary Club has announced that Greg Chambers of Urbanna is its selection for the Pride of Middlesex Award for 2020 and will be honored for his service to the community at an award dinner at the Hartfield...

by Larry Chowning –  Middlesex School Superintendent Dr. Peter Gretz announced Monday night at a public hearing on the upcoming 2020-21 (FY21) school budget that a joint committee of school board and supervisors (Consultation and Feasibility Committee) have agreed not...

On Tuesday, February 18, at 8:42 a.m., the Virginia State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash on the eastbound side of Route 33 on the Lord Delaware Bridge in King and Queen County with a confirmed fatality.  The investigation reveals...

by Tom Chillemi -  In 1944 Irene Morgan bucked a system that segregated whites and blacks when she refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white couple. Arrested in Saluda, she was tried in Middlesex County...

by Tom Chillemi –  Pilot Oscar Barber of Hartfield, president of the Delaware Corporation (DelCorp), has submitted a proposal for a safer airport in Middlesex County which includes a longer runway that is aligned so planes don’t fly over houses....

The “Share The Love” concert last Saturday at St. Clare Walker Middle School ended with a touching and emotional rendition of the Lord’s Prayer by Gary Archer (center). Performers who donated their talents to the concert were, from left,...