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Nine teams row skiffs The Deltaville Maritime Museum’s (DMM) “Family Boatbuilding Week” was presented last week under the museum pavilion as nine families built John Wright style skiffs through the guidance of DMM volunteers. The program was founded in 2002...

At the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) June 3 regular monthly meeting, the board approved a proposed “bonus payment” ordinance prepared by county attorney Heather Lewis that allowed full-time county employees to receive a one-time salary bonus. A 1.5%...

The issue of the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors purchasing body cameras for the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office has been “kicked down the road,” said two speakers during public comment at the June 3 supervisors regular monthly meeting. Dawn Moore,...

Freedom came for enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, when federal army troops arrived on June 19, 1865 and told them they were free. The news of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of Jan. 1, 1863 that freed enslaved people in all...

The Middlesex County Volunteer Rescue Squad Auxiliary presented an open house Sunday at the rescue squad building in Deltaville to celebrate 50 years of the group’s service to the Middlesex County Volunteer Rescue Squad and to honor past members...

Middlesex County Public School Superintendent Dr. Tracy Seitz informed the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors that elementary summer school funds are not available and there will be no program. The Sentinel reached out to Dr. Seitz to explain further the...

Ronnie Russell has been named grand marshal of the Water View Independence Day-themed parade, set for 11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 5. Russell was just 18 years old when he became a charter member of the Water View Fire Department when...

(Note to readers: The Urbanna Town Council on Thursday, June 12, at the council meeting recognized St. Clare Walker Middle School sixth grader Caden Richardson “Richard” Spurlock, winner of the Friends of Urbanna’s annual John Mitchell Map essay contest....

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) “request for proposal” (RFP) to hire a reassessment firm to reassess property in Middlesex brought concerns from the former chairman of the Middlesex County Economic Development Authority, Gordon White. The Deltaville resident...

Rider eventually nabbed in woods in Jamaica area A police pursuit of a motorcycle that started near Gloucester Point ended with a suspect being arrested at Church View, reported Maj. M.E. Sampson of the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO). According...