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Christmas Friends starts 2024 season
As decorations for fall and Halloween fade away, Christmas is once again right around the corner, and the volunteers of Christmas Friends Inc. are preparing for their 39th year of making the season brighter for needy children and elderly...
Wilson wins seat on town council; Austin, Courtney win re-election
Most MC voters back GOP candidates
Robert “Robbie” Wilson III was the top vote getter in the Tuesday, Nov. 5 election to decide who would fill three seats on the Urbanna Town Council. Wilson received 110 votes to capture 28.8%...
67th Annual Urbanna Oyster Festival: ‘One of the smoothest and most successful’
There was music everywhere at the 67th Annual Urbanna Oyster Festival. Food and drink abounded. Two parades. A feeling of small-town America comforted those who remembered, and perhaps longed for, simpler times.
On crisp days with warm sun and cool...
Hailey Bruce crowned Queen of Urbanna Oyster Festival
Josie Anton crowned 2024 festival’s Little Miss Spat
Hailey Bruce was crowned Queen of the 67th Urbanna Oyster Festival and Josie Anton was crowned Little Miss Spat at the Urbanna firehouse on Friday, Nov. 1.
As the 2024 Urbanna Oyster Festival...
Veterans recognition to include barbecue, car show in Urbanna
A Veterans Day celebration and barbecue luncheon to honor local U.S. Armed Forces retirees and active duty personnel will be conducted in Urbanna Saturday, Nov. 9. A car show with 20-30 classic vehicles will also be part of the...
Winter crab dredge harvesting is nixed for 2024-2025 season
Virginia’s winter crab dredge fishery is banned for the 2024-2025 season.
After a public hearing on Monday, Oct. 28, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) voted, 6-1, to close the winter dredge season for blue crabs for the 2024-2025 season.
Virginia’s...
Spire gets copper look
For 135 years the Donovan Masonic Lodge #75 has stood at the corner of Ballpark Road and General Puller Highway (Route 33) in Deltaville.
Efforts are under way to see that this landmark is preserved. This month, the spire...
A ‘boo-tiful’ time at Deltaville Maritime Museum
Yes, Halloween is on what we will for this year name “Terrible Thursday” and, ready or not, the goblins, ghouls, “ghosties,” and maybe a witch, warlock, and zombie or two are beginning to stir, moan and generally raise a...
Dredging Quest Continues
MC persists in push to clear out Broad Creek channel
The Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) will hear a permit request from the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors (MCBS) to dredge the Broad Creek channel at the commission meeting...
Thousands expected Nov. 1 and 2 for 67th Urbanna Oyster Festival
The 67th Urbanna Oyster Festival is set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1 and 2, and once again the event promises good times, delicious food, two parades, live music on three stages, historic buyboats, crowning of the Urbanna Oyster...
