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On June 3, Middlesex Supervisors unanimously approved an extension of a special exception for a 3-megawatt solar facility on 44 acres at 218 Wood Brothers Road in Hartfield.  The land is being leased for 30 years from William K....

Authorities seek the public’s assistance in locating the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a house near Water View last week, reported Sgt. J. Teagle of the Virginia State Police’s Area 33 office in Gloucester. The investigation indicates...

Middlesex County Supervisors voted unanimously on June 3 to approve a proclamation declaring that Hummel Field, the county owned airstrip in Topping, was officially founded on July 22, 1941. Airport representative Jamie Barnhardt informed the board at the meeting that...

Filing deadline is next week This week, incumbent Dana D. Burnett completed all paperwork and is now a qualified candidate to run for the Middlesex County School Board representing the Saluda District, reported Melissa D. Welch, Middlesex County’s Direc-tor of...

MHS’s John S. Clements Memorial Gymnasium was filled with joy for the 76th commencement exercise on May 31. Eighty-two students received diplomas.

Christchurch School (CCS) celebrated its 104th graduation exercises on Saturday, May 24, at 9 a.m. on Bell Tower Hill, overlooking the Rappahannock River. CCS Head of School William J. “Billy” Coyle delivered the commencement address. This was the third graduation...

A special exception application for a 20-megawatt utility scale solar energy facility in Deltaville failed to get approval of the Middlesex Board of Supervisors. On Tuesday, June 3, following a four-hour public hearing, the board was split, 2-2, on the...

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin named the month of June 2025 as “Chesapeake Bay Deadrise Month” through a proclamation read to a crowd on Sunday, June 1, at the Yorktown Workboat Races. The Chesapeake Bay deadrise is the official “State Boat”...

The 82 members of the Middlesex High School Class of 2025 will receive their diplomas during commencement, which is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 31, in the John S. Clements Memorial Gymnasium at MHS in Saluda. Each graduating senior...

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin vetoed House Bill 1699 earlier this month that would have eliminated the tax-exempt status of certain Confederate groups like the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate Memorial Literary Society, the Stonewall Jackson Memorial Inc., Virginia...