News

by Larry Chowning -  The Middlesex County Board of Supervisors has been asked by a local NAACP member to remove the 1910 Daughters of the Confederacy monument on the courthouse green, along with other items associated with the Confederacy inside...

by Larry Chowning -  The portion of a lawsuit filed against Middlesex County and individual board of supervisors members on Oct. 7, 2019 concerning a plane crash into a home near Hummel Field in Topping in 2017 was dismissed by...

by Tom Chillemi -  The Hampton Roads Sanitation District (HRSD) plans to build a “forced main” from Saluda to Topping and Deltaville that will collect wastewater and pump it to Yorktown for treatment.    This will be a forced main so...

by Tom Chillemi -  The 2020 Urbanna Oyster Festival has been cancelled. However, some aspects of it may still be offered. The Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation issued the following statement last week: “After a health and safety meeting with the Middlesex County...

by Don Richeson -  The 63rd annual Urbanna Oyster Festival, originally set for this coming Nov. 6 and 7, has been canceled, Wayne Jessie, chairman of the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors and a festival board member, said at the...

by Tom Chillemi -  The search continues for who killed Margaret “Peggy” Lammers, who was found murdered in her family’s vacation home in Deltaville on July 11, 2017. Initially there were fears by local residents that a killer was loose in...

Use of explosive targets there raises concerns, but supervisors table issue until Aug. meeting by Larry Chowning - Saluda District Supervisor Pete Mansfield requested at the board of supervisors regular monthly meeting Tuesday that the board consider an ordinance to prohibit...

by Larry Chowning -  During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors is using virtual Zoom technology for conducting public meetings to accommodate social distancing and citizen participation. At the board’s June 2 meeting, County Administrator Matt Walker...

by Larry Chowning -  St. Clare Walker Middle School’s (SCW) Bailey Hooper who teaches Algebra 1 and Math 8 has been named Middlesex County Public School’s (MCPS) 2020 Division Teacher of the Year.  Annually, MCPS officials select one  Teacher of the...

Led by Darrell Sears of Urbanna, a 30-strong line of socially distanced, patriotically decorated golf carts makes its way west on Virginia Street past the Southside Sentinel office on Fourth of July morning during the inaugural Urbanna Independence Day...