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by Larry Chowning Twenty-six year Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation volunteer Karen Ambrose has been named grand marshal of the 62nd annual Urbanna Oyster Festival to be held on Friday and Saturday, November 1-2. Ambrose started her volunteer stint with the festival...

The presidential yacht “USS Sequoia” (above) is about to leave Chesapeake Boat Works in Deltaville bound for Belfast, Maine. French & Webb Inc., a custom boatbuilder in Belfast, will restore the yacht. It will be loaded onto a barge...

by Tom Chillemi Anguish was evident on the faces of the victim’s family members as they entered Middlesex Circuit Court for the sentencing hearing of convicted murderer Alvin Bernard Keyser, 24, of Topping. Eighteen months has passed since Keyser strangled Terri...

The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors presented a plaque of recognition to Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff Chelsi Blake for “perseverance and action beyond the call of duty on August 19, 2019.” When a man suffered a heart attack at...

by Larry Chowning Middlesex County natives and musicians Sherman Holmes, Theodore Braxton, the late James Curtis and the late Wendell Holmes were honored Saturday night at the Labor Day “Get Out The Vote” R&B concert in Urbanna for their contribution...

by Tom Chillemi Dr. James Robusto was one of only three of 120 graduates in his graduating class at Johns Hopkins University who chose family medicine as their specialty. There are hundreds of patients who are glad he decided to practice...

by Larry Chowning Wayne Mount, 76, of Saluda was honored at Colonial Downs race track in New Kent on Saturday, August 24, in celebration of his birthday and for being the oldest exercise rider and pony boy at the track. The...

Students at Middlesex Elementary School (MES) will find a bright new learning opportunity this fall in their schoolyard. Kenneth Beam, a new Eagle Scout from local Christchurch Boy Scout Troop 341, has created an outdoor learning center to teach...

by Larry Chowning A former pastor of Philippi Christian Church in Deltaville, Dr. David G. Brown Jr., and more than 25 former Christian Youth Unlimited (CYU) members gathered for a CYU reunion at the church on Friday, August 23, to...

by Tom Chillemi A divide between some Urbanna citizens and the Urbanna Town Council, and dissension among some council members, may be narrowing.  The feud that has been simmering boiled over at the July 11 council meeting, when council member Barbara...