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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...
Retiring Marine honored, will serve as a MC deputy
The newest Middlesex County deputy sheriff is retired Marine Sergeant Major Christopher J. Easter, whose retirement ceremony was conducted in Saluda last week at the former home of Marine legend Chesty Puller.
Sergeant Major Easter
Easter joined the Marine Corps...
Sheep control vegetation at MC solar farm
by AnnGardner Eubank -
A flock of sheep have been hard at work at Puller Solar Farm near Hartfield since Dominion Energy introduced a “solar grazing” program to serve as an environmentally friendly and adorably fuzzy alternative to motorized lawn care on...
