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Middlesex officials take aim at ‘Internet deserts’
Middlesex Supervisors continue to try to eliminate Internet deserts throughout the county and provide high-speed Internet to everyone.
At the supervisors regular November meeting, Kevin Gentry, IT director and executive director of the Middlesex County Broadband Authority, informed supervisors that...
Costs increase on Cooks Corner workforce housing project
The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors learned in November that the cost of building a 24-unit workforce housing complex at Cooks Corner is continuing to increase in cost as the county waits for funding to appear.
Bay Aging’s Assistant Director...
Flags along Urbanna streets herald Yule
Volunteers with Urbanna Main Street (UMS) have been busy making bows, as well as designing, purchasing and hanging new flags on Virginia Street and Cross Street for this holiday season. Thirty-nine new flags bearing the Urbanna Holiday Home Tour...
Three Middlesex sites eyed for commercial fishing
Three public boat landings in the eastern end of Middlesex County have been marked as potential sites for developing commercial fishing and maritime waterfront areas.
Stamper’s Bay Landing on the Piankatank River, located near Hartfield, Whiting’s Creek Landing on the...
Dale Taylor named grand marshal of Urbanna Yule parade
Dale Taylor, 93, has been named grand marshal of the 2024 Urbanna Hometown Christmas Parade.
Taylor, a Deltaville native, moved to Urbanna 35 years ago when he married an Urbanna native, the late Beatrice Payne Taylor. They moved into the...
Be thankful; realize all not so blessed
Thanksgiving this year falls on Thursday, Nov. 28. The day is a reminder that we should be thankful for our blessings and also to remind us that everyone is not so blessed.
Susie Bagby of Jamaica moved to Middlesex County...
Assistant commonwealth’s attorney hired
At the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 6, Middlesex County Commonwealth’s Attorney Mike Hurd introduced attorney Patrick O’Donnell, who has been hired as the first-ever assistant commonwealth’s attorney in Middlesex County history.
Hurd has for...
Christmas Friends shopping, wrapping is now under way!
Christmas Friends Inc. is shifting into high gear for the 2024 season of helping Middlesex County’s needy children and senior adults. Many shoppers are receiving their “wish lists” this week and will soon be bringing in bags of gifts...
Cost hikes adding up on MC sheriff’s office work
The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors voted Wednesday, Nov. 6, to appropriate $40,797 worth of change orders on renovation of the old Puller Center building at Cooks Corner into the new Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office building.
Since the start of...
Author Heath Lee speaks at MC veterans programs
Nationally acclaimed author Heath Lee, writer of “The League of Wives,” spoke to the community on Sunday in the St. Clare Walker Middle School auditorium and at the annual Christ Church Parish Veterans Day luncheon celebration on Monday at...
