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Two roundabouts eyed for Hartfield
Two highway roundabouts are planned for Twiggs Ferry Road (Route 3) about three miles from each other.
One roundabout, fully funded for $6.7 million, will be near Hartfield at the intersection of Twiggs Ferry Road (Route 3) and Stampers...
Middlesex received $1.84 million in first round of pandemic money
First in a new Sentinel series
The Arrival of COVID-19
The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) was a global pandemic. The first documented case was of someone being infected in December 2019, and in March 2020, the World Health Organization classified the outbreak...
School officials request 7% raise for MC teachers
The Middlesex County School Board (MCSB) received preliminary budget information on Monday, Feb. 10, from School Superintendent Dr. Tracy Seitz that includes a 7% raise for teachers, a 4% raise for all other school employees and a $779,000, or...
Urbanna Town Council amends budget to buy town hall property
On Feb. 13 following a required public hearing at which no one spoke, the Urbanna Town Council amended fiscal year (FY) 2024-2025 budget appropriating all remaining American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”) funds of $237,600, and funds from the sale...
SNOW CELEBRATION
Siblings Cooper Rosenthal, 4, and Carsyn Rosenthal, 2, visitors from Maryland, celebrate the three-plus inches of snowfall Tuesday while visiting their Gigi and Pappaw (grandparents Crystal and Scott Wiles) in Locust Hill.
The pair sport makeshift snowshoes created using shopping...
‘Emergency’ aid eyed for Broad Creek
Middlesex County has been awarded a $2.3 million grant to dredge Broad Creek in Deltaville.
County Administrator Matt Walker announced at the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors Feb. 4 regular monthly meeting that Virginia Port Authority has awarded a $2.3...
Improved Internet service coming to central, upper Middlesex County
Broadband Internet service is coming soon to unserved areas including central and upper Middlesex County.
Residents or businesses in the service areas are encouraged to sign up now, said Kevin Gentry, executive director of the Middlesex Broadband Authority. For a...
Faded, false MC historic marker will be replaced
Supervisors have voted to have a state historic county line highway marker replaced with a new updated sign.
Supervisors voted to expend $3,500 to replace the sign — one of the original Middlesex historic road signs erected in the early...
County eyes ways to fund dredge work
Broad, Jackson creeks areas may get special designation;
funding would come solely from landowners in areas
At a Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) work session on Jan. 3, Middle Peninsula Planning District (MPPDC) Executive Director Lewis “Lewie” Lawrence provided...
Community aids boat fire victim
Last week’s story in the Sentinel about a Jan. 23 fire that destroyed the boat that Rusty Chrisley and his 13-year-old Pomeranian-mix dog Star were living on resulted in an outpouring of generosity, said Ron Hynes, who set up...
