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by Tom Chillemi - When the Urbanna Town Council meets at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 12, its finance committee will present its proposed budget. Finance Committee Chairman Bill Goldsmith said the committee is proposing a two-cent reduction in the...

Proposed jump in taxes on large boats expected to attract speakers by Larry Chowning - Six citizens attended last week’s Middlesex County Board of Supervisors’ public hearing on the county budget, and no one at the hearing spoke for or...

by Larry Chowning - The Middlesex County Sports Complex Committee (MCSCC) is seeking funds to finish off a new “family” picnic pavilion currently under construction and to rebuild dugouts on the baseball and softball fields. The all-volunteer MCSCC is composed...

MC Public Schools report two testing positive for coronavirus last week -- seven quarantined by Larry Chowning - COVID-19 is creeping back into the Middlesex County Public Schools (MCPS). After going through a stretch with no reports of COVID-19 cases,...

by Tom Chillemi - “The strong give up and move on… while the weak give up and stay.” So goes a line in a song by 70s-80s pop duo Daryl Hall and John Oates. The lyric underscores the courage...

by Lisa Hinton-Valdrighi - One person died and several businesses and residences were destroyed when fire raced through a block of buildings on Irvington Road in Kilmarnock in the early morning hours Tuesday, April 19. According to Kilmarnock Volunteer Fire...

County proposes $416,000 more as calls increase and fundraising drops by Larry Chowning - If the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors approves the proposed fiscal year 2023 (FY23) budget, this month volunteer fire and rescue departments will be seeing an...

by Larry Chowning - A Petersburg developer is seeking rezoning of the 121-acre historic Woodstock Farm near Hartfield on the Piankatank River from agriculture to cluster development. Woodstock was built in 1858 and has the distinction of having once been...

by Tom Chillemi - An Urbanna Planning Commission sponsored economic development “Idea Incubator” event is scheduled for 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, at the Middlesex County Woman’s Club building. The building, the Middlesex colonial-era courthouse, is at 202 Virginia...

by Tom Chillemi - An unloaded gun was discovered in a locked compartment in a vehicle in the Middlesex High School (MHS) parking lot on Tuesday, reported Dr. Tracy Seitz, superintendent of Middlesex County Public Schools in an email...