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Rescue Regatta fundraiser slated for Aug. 18, 19
The Middlesex County Volunteer Rescue Squad (MCVRS) is presenting the inaugural Rescue Regatta fundraiser on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 18 and 19, in Deltaville.
The regatta will feature a pursuit-style race on Saturday. This is a race for money, not...
Middlesex sewer cost questions remain unanswered
Oftentimes when government gets ready to spend a lot of money, a lot of citizens get interested.
However, many would say the public hasn’t paid much attention to Middlesex County’s plan to deploy sewer between Saluda, Topping and Deltaville, that...
Urbanna breaks ground on new pool
New Urbanna community swimming pool groundbreaking ceremony participants (above) include, from left, Urbanna Zoning Administrator Roy Kime, Town councilors Beth Justice and Merri Hanson, Town Administrator Garth Wheeler, Councilor Larry Chowning, Pool Committee Chairman Barbara Hartley, Pool Committee members Sue Warner...
Wheeler to step down as Urbanna administrator
Urbanna’s town administrator since 2020, Garth Wheeler, is stepping down from the position effective Aug. 5.
At the July 13 town council meeting, Mayor Bill Goldsmith read aloud Wheeler’s short letter of resignation dated July 5.
Wheeler wrote, “I have enjoyed...
OK on Saluda Tractor Supply closer
Progress is being made on bringing a Tractor Supply business to Saluda reported Middlesex County Planning Director Dave Kretz at the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) regular monthly meeting on July 11.
On July 12, 2022, MCBS approved the...
Middlesex Couple, Ketch reunited after a half century
Englands rediscover ketch they sailed from Urbanna to Cape Cod 50 years ago
For John and Vera England of Urbanna, 50 years of marriage came full circle this summer when the couple booked a trip in the Bahamas on the...
School system offered $4,300 for site to store sewage at SCW
After the Middlesex County School Board (MCSB) conducted a public hearing Monday on a proposal to sell .0564 acre of land to Hampton Roads Sanitation Department (HRSD) for the proposed Locust Hill (sewage) Pump Out Station, the school board...
Revamp of sheriff HQ more costly than expected
Walls at Cooks Corner site lack needed reinforcements
Ground penetrating radar has revealed that the former Lewis B. Puller Vocational Center building at Cooks Corner has exterior walls that lack the reinforcement elements as the original plan indicated.
In October...
Bike path network may still come to MC
Middlesex County has two combination pedestrian-bicycle paths in the works.
The county has been seeking grant funding for a “shared use path” in Deltaville since 2019; and the Middlesex Planning Department has submitted a grant application to the Virginia Department...
Urbanna eyes ways to raise funds for pool
With a pool contract signed for more than $1.1 million, the Urbanna Town Council is looking for ways to raise $470,000 that it will have to pay once it’s built.
Demolition of the town’s old community swimming pool began last...
