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Chambers is 2020 Pride of Middlesex Award winner
The Middlesex Rotary Club has announced that Greg Chambers of Urbanna is its selection for the Pride of Middlesex Award for 2020 and will be honored for his service to the community at an award dinner at the Hartfield...
Middlesex will not build a new school bus garage
by Larry Chowning –
Middlesex School Superintendent Dr. Peter Gretz announced Monday night at a public hearing on the upcoming 2020-21 (FY21) school budget that a joint committee of school board and supervisors (Consultation and Feasibility Committee) have agreed not...
Tappahannock man killed in crash on bridge
On Tuesday, February 18, at 8:42 a.m., the Virginia State Police responded to a two-vehicle crash on the eastbound side of Route 33 on the Lord Delaware Bridge in King and Queen County with a confirmed fatality.
The investigation reveals...
Morgan, Parks and King were all united by a common cause
by Tom Chillemi -
In 1944 Irene Morgan bucked a system that segregated whites and blacks when she refused to move from her bus seat to give it to a white couple.
Arrested in Saluda, she was tried in Middlesex County...
Hummel Field proposal would realign and lengthen runway
by Tom Chillemi –
Pilot Oscar Barber of Hartfield, president of the Delaware Corporation (DelCorp), has submitted a proposal for a safer airport in Middlesex County which includes a longer runway that is aligned so planes don’t fly over houses....
Sharing the love
The “Share The Love” concert last Saturday at St. Clare Walker Middle School ended with a touching and emotional rendition of the Lord’s Prayer by Gary Archer (center). Performers who donated their talents to the concert were, from left,...
School budget public hearing due Monday
by Larry Chowning –
The Middlesex County School Board will hold a public hearing on a proposed $20,236,431 2020-21 (FY21) school budget on Monday, February 24, at 7 p.m. in the Historic Middlesex Courthouse in Saluda. The proposal calls for...
Dominion grant will partially fund 2 electric school buses
The Middlesex County Public Schools (MCPS) was recently notified of having been awarded a Dominion Energy grant to partially fund two new electric 75-seat school buses.
At a joint board of supervisors and school board budget work session on February...
Board wants Church View Post Office to remain open
The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors agreed on February 4 to send a resolution to Congressman Rob Wittman requesting that the U.S. Postal Service continue operation of Church View Post Office and to provide a proper post office facility.
Board...
‘China and Latin America’ to be Great Decisions topic
How does Latin America fit into China’s “One Belt, One Road” plan?
Dr. Corliss Tacosa will speak on this important topic to the Middlesex Great Decisions group at 10 a.m. this Friday, February 14, at the Deltaville Community Association Center,...
