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Alex Lorenzo-Sprouse (above) hugs Middlesex Elementary School (MES) art teacher “Miss Dixie” Doerr at the start of the first day of school Monday. Waiting for students to get off a bus are paraprofessionals Brooke Balderson and Heidi Elbourn,...

by Larry Chowning - The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) now has a second opinion on whether to go new or refurbish old for a Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office building. Engineer Jim Snowa of Deltaville indicated that an 80...

by Larry Chowning - The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) recently hired Charlie Beam Jr. as the county’s first in-house staff engineer and director of utilities. “Charlie specializes in civil projects like we have here in the county,” said Kimbrough....

Firefighters contain Wake camping resort fire; tightly packed campers, propane tanks, complicate efforts by Tom Chillemi - Firefighters from three Middlesex County fire departments were called out at 12:20 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, for a structure fire at Bush...

Couple interred more than a century ago to be reburied; search on for relatives by Larry Chowning - The Fairfield Foundation is in search of relatives of Alfred Palmer and Sophronia (Sophie) Sadler Palmer, who lived in Urbanna in the...

by Tom Chillemi - The design of the wastewater collection system for Topping is well under way; and on Aug. 2 the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors got a preliminary look at wastewater collection systems for Saluda and Hartfield. The...

From staff reports - Authorities are seeking the public’s help in identifying a murder suspect in an Gloucester apparent home-invasion Monday, August 15. Skyler Merenda, 18, was found dead with a gunshot wound in a residence in the 4300 block...

by Larry Chowning - To renovate Middlesex High School (MHS) in Saluda could cost between $20.5 and $40.7 million. That’s what Middlesex County School Board members heard Monday at their regular monthly meeting. During the Aug. 8 meeting, which...

by Barbara Lovelace - The stirring cadence of fife and drum and the vibrant calls of a town crier filled the streets of Urbanna’s historic district on Saturday as the town celebrated its ninth annual Founders Day. Presented by volunteers...

by Larry Chowning - A citizen requested more of a neighborhood voice in matters concerning the county-owned Hummel Field airport in Topping. Russ Perkinson, a trustee involved in the historical property of Prospect that adjoins the county-owned airport, requested during...