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Indecent liberties with a child by a person in a custodial or supervisory relationship alledged by Tom Chillemi - Former Middlesex High School Resource Officer Clayton Colley has been charged with the felony of taking indecent liberties with a child...

by Larry Chowning - For Middlesex County youth growing up in the late 1960s, the Christian Youth Unlimited (CYU) was a dynamic interdenominational organization that had 60-plus teenagers as members who were from all over the county. The group was...

by Larry Chowning - Former Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation (UOFF) board member Kathy Vesley-Massey has been named grand marshal of the 65th Urbanna Oyster Festival that is planned for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 4 and 5. “Kathy has been a...

Starting this week, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) is carrying out emergency repairs to the U.S. Route 17 northbound bridge over Dragon Run at the Middlesex County-Gloucester County line, after a series of vehicle crashes on Sunday, Aug....

Re-opening date for northbound U.S. 17 bridge over the Dragon Run is unknown by Tom Chillemi - The James V. Morgan Bridge that carries U.S. Route 17 northbound traffic over the Dragon Run near Saluda will be closed for an...

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...