COVID-19 UPDATES

Middlesex received $1.84 million in first round of pandemic money

February 19, 2025

First in a new Sentinel series The Arrival of COVID-19 The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) was a global pandemic. The first documented case was of someone being infected in December 2019, and in March 2020, the World Health Organization classified the outbreak...

NAACP announces two COVID-19 vaccination events

January 25, 2023

Middlesex now experiencing high COVID-19 levels

January 12, 2023

Middlesex COVID-19 cases decline some from high level

September 14, 2022

Middlesex COVID-19 cases are up

September 2, 2022

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Deltaville sock burning celebration

Larry Chowning -

Spring has sprung and to mark the arrival of the annual sailing season in Deltaville about 450 people came out to burn their socks...

‘Air Tractors’ using Hummel airport as base to drop nitrogen

Tom Chillemi -

Yellow airplanes called “Air Tractors” have been criss-crossing area skies this week dropping nitrogen granules to fertilize pine trees. Rice Flying Services of Corning, Ark.,...