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Deltaville lottery ticket worth $1 million remains unclaimed

May 8, 2025

Plein Air Unleashed is again a big success

May 8, 2025

Middlesex County watermen chasing down soft-shell crabs

May 8, 2025

Urbanna looks to keep tax rate, hike water rates

May 8, 2025

Arts in the Middle returns to Hewick on June 7 and 8

May 8, 2025

The annual Arts in the Middle Fine Arts Festival (AIM) is set for Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8, at Hewick Plantation, 5123 Old Virginia St., Urbanna. Saturday hours are 10 a.m.-5...

Hartfield flags event recognizes loved ones

May 8, 2025

Come, lend your hands to raise flags for Memorial Day! Middlesex Rotary Club members will be setting up 140 flags for its Flags for Heroes event on May 18 at 3 p.m. at...

African-American genealogists to focus on Juneteenth soldiers

May 8, 2025

Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society (MPAAGHS) will conduct its monthly meeting “virtually” on Saturday, May 10, at 11 a.m. The meeting will feature a talk by Marvin Tupper Jones entitled “Juneteenth...

DNA presentation set for 10:30 a.m. May 17 at Urbanna library

May 8, 2025

The public is invited to a presentation, “DNA 101: An Introduction to Genetic Genealogy,” at the Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system’s Urbanna branch on Saturday, May 17, at 10:30 a.m. The talk...

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One Woman's Opinion

Newport News Mariners Museum features ‘Battle of the Ironclads’

May 8, 2025

On a recent March Sunday while that cloudy, cold wind coming off the Rappahannock River was casting a chill over the town of Urbanna, we decided it was a perfect day to visit a museum. We had not been to the Mariners Museum in Newport News in more than 40 years and decided it was time for the native, Chip Buxton,...

Middlesex girls soccer team soars to 6-4

May 8, 2025

MHS hosts Essex 6 p.m. Monday The Charger girls are set to take on Essex Monday, May 12 and Mathews Wednesday, May 14. Both games...

Three Middlesex High School track records broken in the past three weeks

May 8, 2025

Nielson McMinn continues to stretch the Middlesex High School (MHS) school record in the discus throw. For two weeks in a row, he broke...

CCS wins runner-up honors in district regatta

May 8, 2025

The Christchurch School sailing team traveled to Annapolis, Md., last month to compete in the two-day Mid-Atlantic Interscholastic Sailing Association (MAISSA) district team race...

Wake youth is making big splash in Paralympics competitive swimming

May 8, 2025

Caroline Entsminger of Wake is training almost daily in the pool at the Northern Neck Family YMCA in Kilmarnock in preparation to compete in...

Middlesex baseball team gets twin Tidewater wins

May 8, 2025

The Middlesex High School (MHS) Charger varsity baseball team (8-6, 5-1) had two Tidewater District wins last week, defeating Mathews, 2-0, on Tuesday, April 29,...

Middlesex softball team blanks WP, Mathews

May 8, 2025

The Middlesex High School softball team notched two shutout wins last week, defeating Mathews and West Point. On April 29 Middlesex defeated district foe visitor...