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Decide after all to let voters decide monument’s fate through a Nov. 2 referendum by Larry Chowning – The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors changed course Tuesday, August 3, and voted 3-2 to conduct a referendum to decide the fate of...

by Larry Chowning – Middlesex County (MC) and the Town of Urbanna will receive approximately $2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) which was approved by Congress in March as part of the local and state Coronavirus Fiscal...

By Tom Chillemi – The Urbanna Town Council is set to meet at 6 p.m. — an hour earlier than its usual time — on Thursday, Aug. 12, on the second floor of Urbanna Town Hall. The meeting will feature...

by Larry Chowning – Urbanna's Cross Street is “going green” as new solar street lamps were being installed last week as workers placed pole mounts along the street and one lamp was installed in front of the town hall. The project...

by Tom Chillemi The Urbanna Town Council is about to sign a new contract with Church View Septic for trash pick-up. Beginning the week of Aug. 16, trash collection will be on Tuesdays and Fridays through Nov. 12, which is the...

by Larry Chowning The eighth annual Urbanna Founders Day celebration will be presented on Saturday, August 7, to commemorate the colonial history of the Town of Urbanna. The town was created in June 1680 on paper by the Colonial Assembly through...

by Tom Chillemi The 2021 Virginia Agricultural Expo on August 5 will be presented at Corbin Hall Farm, “the birthplace of ag expos,” said Ronnie Russell, who has worked this farm more than 50 years. In 1959 W.R. Harrell of St....

Thanks to citizens’ tips and a quick thinking youth, the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) has arrested and charged an Urbanna area man with taking indecent liberties with a child, reported Major M.E. Sampson of the MCSO. According to Maj....

by Tom Chillemi At the July 22 regular monthly Urbanna Town Council meeting, citizens shared their distain for a plan that would remove the house at 215 Linden Avenue in Urbanna and put a sewage pump station in a residential...

by Larry Chowning     There was standing room only under a large tent in the Deltaville Community Center parking lot Saturday as more than 100 people attended the dedication and celebration of the Stingray Point Contraband Virginia Historic Road...