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MC Woman’s Club unveils festival quilt
The 2024 Urbanna Oyster Festival quilt is called “Jewels of Middlesex,” will be raffled off at the festival on Nov. 2. Raffle tickets will go on sale in October.
Proceeds from the raffle will go toward scholarships, community support and...
Library to host poetry workshop
The Middlesex County Public Library (MCPL) system is offering a creative writing workshop, “Synonyms for Grief,” at MCPL’s Urbanna branch on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Poet Anne Marie Wells will serve as the host.
Host Wells...
Lampkin Osborne passed away this summer; helped found MPFL
Middlesex Pet Friends for Life recently learned of the passing of one of our original supporters and indeed the inspiration for the founding of our organization. Lorrine Lampkin Osborne passed away on July 13, 2024. She was 93.
Lorrine worked...
DMM Oyster Roast/Dance set for Saturday, Sept. 14
It’s that time of the year again, and the popular annual Oyster Roast and Dance is coming up Saturday, Sept. 14, to the Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM) and Holly Point Nature Park’s Events Pavilion. World Champion Oyster Shucker Deborah...
Ford Model A Club will visit Middlesex Museum on Sept. 21
The Colonial Virginia Ford Model A Club members love cars — the Model A Ford to be exact. It was the successor to the venerable Model T Ford (1907-1927) that made cars affordable to the average citizen in the...
Deltaville’s Miller named captain of 2024 Urbanna Oyster Festival
The Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation has named boatbuilder Bryan Miller of Deltaville captain of the 2024 Urbanna Oyster Festival set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1 and 2.
Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation (UOFF) first began naming captains of the festival...
Middlesex County and partners celebrate groundbreaking for Broadband project
Middlesex County, All Points Broadband and Dominion Energy Virginia conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for a fiber-to-the-home Broadband project that will deliver service to more than 900 unserved homes and businesses in Middlesex. Middlesex is the seventh Virginia county where...
Josh Walker and Carla Jackson to headline a “Bonus Groovin’ in the Park”
It’s time for our annual “Bonus Groovin’ in the Park” at Deltaville Maritime Museum 5-8 p.m. this Saturday, Aug. 31.
This is our annual visit from Hartfield’s Josh Walker as his trio becomes a quartet with songstress Carla Jackson...
Middlesex County Museum to host Arthur Lee historian
Fall fundraiser at Rosegill
The Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society’s fall fundraiser is set for 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 13, at Historic Rosegill on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County. Dr. Gordon Blaine Steffey, Historic...
Hartfield shooting club names September speaker
The Middlesex Shooting Sports Club recently announced its September monthly dinner meeting speaker, who goes by the alias Constable Heartless, purporting to being born around 1640 in England. The meeting is set for 6 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, at...
