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Corrections official reminds audience of severity of laws restricting stun guns, knives and firearms on campuses The message was clear Monday at an informational meeting at St. Clare Walker (SCW) Middle School auditorium in Locust Hill for parents and the...

Friends of the Rappahannock donates The Urbanna Town Marina is now the proud new home of an oyster shell recycling container provided and managed by Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR). This container was built and installed by the talented Northern...

Christian band Jubal, including, from left, Charles Dunlevy, Sandra Dize and David Valadez will again serve as music headliners for the annual Urbanna community Memorial Day observance, which is set for 11 a.m. Monday, May 29 at the Urbanna...

    Killed responding to Urbanna call 39 years ago Nearly 100 bicyclists — and some motorcyclists — stopped on the Beryl R. Newman Memorial Bridge over Urbanna Creek Wednesday, May 10, to honor the late Middlesex County Chief Deputy Robert Talmadge...

The Virginia Municipal League (VML) announced last week that Viktorija Gobush of Urbanna won the Region 8 “If I Were Mayor” essay contest. The contest, hosted by VML, drew hundreds of entries from seventh graders throughout the state. The challenge...

The Urbanna Town Council will consider amending its zoning ordinance to allow a limited number of apartment or condominium residences in the B-1 (Commercial) District. The amendment would allow up to six residences per lot. Council will conduct a public...

After years of thinking the Taber Fund principal could not be spent, the current Urbanna Town Council recently voted to withdraw $500,000 from the fund as a loan to pay for a proposed community swimming pool, with the provision...

MC supervisors vote 3-2 against zoning request after citizens decry store proposed for east Saluda A single vote matters. Consider the recent application for a Special Exception to build a Family Dollar store on the east end of Saluda. The Middlesex...

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) approved 4-0-1 on Tuesday, May 2, to spend up to $10,000 to secure permits to have maintenance dredging done at the public boat ramp on Mill Creek at Wake. Middlesex County Planning Director...

A Cooks Corner crash claimed the life of a Hardyville man on Tuesday, May 2. The man, Howard Leander Hollingsworth, 51, a resident of the 7700 block of Belle Aire Drive, was driving a 2015 Jeep Wrangler east on General...