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MC registrar shares voting schedule

This year will be a “super busy election cycle,” said Melissa D. Welch, Middlesex County’s director of Elections and General Registrar. On Nov. 5, there will be presidential, general, and special elections, including: President Vice president U.S. Senate U.S....

Kidd building correction…

Last week’s article contained an error and also needs two clarifications. There are two remaining buildings on the old Rappahannock Central Elementary (RCE) School campus, not just one. The one pictured with last week’s story is the shuttered school’s...

Supervisors pick Don Harris as the board’s 2024 chairman

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) voted unanimously on Wednesday, Jan. 3 at the board’s annual organizational meeting to elect Saluda District Supervisor Don Harris as its chairman. Harris is replacing Lud Kimbrough from Pinetop District, who went off...

Deceased Lancaster man is suspect in three 1980s murders

Often stayed on his workboat;  sometimes docked in Middlesex A deceased Lancaster County man has been identified as the suspect in three decades-old homicides in the Hampton Roads region.  Alan W. Wilmer Sr., who was 63 when he died at...

Middlesex sewer work costs climb

Construction costs are expected to be much higher than anticipated for the proposed sewer system for central and lower Middlesex County. That’s the word from Jeremiah Burford of Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD), and County Administrator Matt Walker, delivered at...

Supervisors look for ways to revamp old building

The old elementary school building has sat unused for two decades The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) is creating a committee to determine the future of the old Rappahannock Central Elementary (RCE) School Kidd building at Cooks Corner. The Kidd...

With the last of Ward bros. passing, an era ends in Deltaville

With the passing of Floyd T. Ward, 95, on Dec. 17, 2023, the last of the Ward brothers of Deltaville have passed. The Ward brothers, Floyd, Melvin and Milton (Mit), were part of a Chesapeake Bay maritime dynasty started by...

County gives Sun Tribe easement along MC Sports Complex road

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) voted, 3-2, on Dec. 5 to give Sun Tribe Solar a permanent utility easement through county-owned property along the Middlesex County Sports Complex road from the solar panel project behind Middlesex Elementary...

County moves to improve tracking of its sewer costs

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors established on Dec. 5, 2023 a “sewer enterprise fund” to track sewer construction expenses and future revenues, separately from the county’s general budget. The board’s action moved $2 million from the capital improvement fund...

Pool in Taber Park completed

Search is on for lifeguards “It’s done.” With these words Barbara Hartley summed up four years of planning and work that led to the Town of Urbanna building a new pool. Hartley, who served as chairman of the pool...

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