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In addition to enjoying the Urbanna Oyster Festival last weekend, Christchurch School students and faculty completed hundreds of hours of service projects. As is tradition, Seahorses enjoyed working at festival food and education events. They did service projects for...

The Middlesex High School and the St. Clare Walker Middle School Bands are selling fresh citrus fruit for the upcoming holiday season. “We are excited to offer fresh from the orchard citrus and three amazing varieties of cheesecake through our...

This past week the Food Pantry at Hands Across Middlesex had a problem: over 20,000 pounds of food was being delivered on Thursday and few regular volunteers were available. This was the result of moving the delivery from the...

Last weekend’s Christchurch School Homecoming and Fall Family Weekend ended with a Celebration of the Arts on Sunday afternoon. Hosted by the school’s Visual and Performing Arts Department, “Autumn Leaves, Arts in Perspective” featured a gallery showing by Sarah...

Dr. Kendra Wood, coordinator of advising at Rappahannock Community College, was chosen out of many advisors from member institutions to win the EAB Advising Excellence Award at this year’s NACADA (National Academic Advising Association) conference. This award recognizes an academic advisor who...

Chesapeake Academy is on the hunt for the next Osprey Merit Scholar. Osprey Merit Scholars are excellent school citizens, academically capable, responsible, and motivated. Well-respected by teachers and peers, an Osprey Scholar has a desire to pursue excellence, leadership...

The Alzheimer’s Association Greater Richmond Chapter will host a Caregiver Education Conference on Wednesday, November 6, from 12:30-2:30 p.m. at the Lancaster County Public Library, 16 Town Centre Drive, Kilmarnock. Most persons, when confronted with the reality that a family...

In preparation for a culminating field study comparing the Chesapeake Bay to the Florida Keys next year, Chesapeake Academy students took to local waterways with Christchurch School’s director of place-based education Dave Cola to compare fresh and saltwater ecosystems...

If you’re looking for some fun this weekend, don’t miss the student production of the Shirley Jackson thriller “Summer People.” It’s a spooky, dark tale of two city folks who vacation in Tidewater, Virginia, and end up overstaying their welcome. The...

by Bethany Smith Marine Science Legacy Program Co-coordinator –  Poised on the verge of opening day of the 62nd Annual Urbanna Oyster Festival, the Marine Science Legacy Program has been hard at work coordinating an amazing array of experiential learning opportunities for...