Southside Sentinel Oyster Festival Supplement

Be sure to look in this week's paper for your copy of our Oyster Festival supplement; everything you need to know for this weekend, where to be and when.

Charlie Small's of Richmond is the winner of this year’s Urbanna Oyster Festival poster contest. His poster entry will appear on the cover of the Sentinel’s Nov. 6 print edition’s special 36-page festival preview supplement. It was selected by the Oyster Festival Foundation Board based on the artistic skill and representation of this year’s theme.

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2025 Urbanna Oyster Festival

Cryers to serve as grand marshals of the 69th Oyster Festival

The Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation has named Linda and Dave Cryer grand marshals of the 69th annual Urbanna Oyster Festival set for Nov. 6 and 7. The Cryers moved to Middlesex County in 2002 and have devoted “23 years of...

Urbanna’s Davis wins Va. shucking championship

  Urbanna Oyster Festival Oyster Shucking Contest winners appear below. Amateurs (shucking 12 oysters): irst — Craig Bishop, Powhatan, 2:03. Second — Jacob Perry,  Mathews, 3:40. Third — Kiki Ladendorf, Urbanna, 3:51. Professional Women’s division (shucking 24 oysters): First — Hannah Bush, Manassas, 3:47. ...

Thousands experience oyster festival as a happy place

Thousands came to the 68th Urbanna Oyster Festival for different reasons. It was a fashion show. There was music, shopping, and foods to tempt...

Thousands expected for 68th Urbanna Oyster Fest

The 68th Urbanna Oyster Festival is set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8, and once again the event promises good times, delicious...

Luna and Lynx will offer deck tours for Urbanna Oyster Fest

The Urbanna Oyster Festival has many traditions and in 1985 at the 28th annual oyster festival, the first tall ship, Alexandria, came to the...

Veteran ace shucker Sarah Hammond Stokes named Oyster Fest captain

The Urbanna Oyster Festival Foundation has named Sarah Hammond Stokes, 86, of Urbanna as captain of the 2025 festival. A Middlesex County native, Stokes surprised...

A.B. Gravatt III selected as grand marshal of Oyster Festival

Col. (retired) A.B. Gravatt III of Urbanna and Lansdowne, in background, has been named grand marshal of the 2025 Urbanna Oyster Festival. (Photo by...

Oyster Shucking Contest is at Urbanna firehouse

The Virginia Oyster Shucking Contest will start at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, behind the Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department station (the Urbanna firehouse)...

Oyster Festival Queen & Little Miss Spat Contest

Queen, Little Miss Spat hopefuls share info on fundraisers

Kallie Robins Blakelee Anderson Blakelynn Moore Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant Kallie Robins and her Little Miss Spat co-contestants Blakelee Anderson and Blakelynn Moore worked to raise...

Oyster Festival Queen contestant inspired by her own observations

This past summer, Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant Macon Kissman and her Little Miss Spat Camdyn Putney dedicated their time to raising awareness about...

Raising money for oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay

Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant Cara Moss and her Little Miss Spat co-contestant Sawyer Edwards dedicated their project to raising money and awareness for...

Queen, Spat hopefuls raise money for Middlesex Pet Friends For Life

Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant Lorelei Cooke and her Little Miss Spat co-contestant Emersyn Soles dedicated their summer to raising awareness and funds for...

Queen and spat contestants raise money and awareness for suicide prevention

Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant Ashlynn Sears and her Little Miss Spat Skyler Epperly worked throughout the summer to raise money and awareness for...

Queen and spat contestants highlight the needs of children and families

Urbanna Queen contestant Taylor Newman and her Little Miss Spat co-contestant Marilyn Major created the Sunshine Project. They spent the summer raising awareness to...

Queen and spat contestants raise awareness about the health of our river

Urbanna Oyster Festival Queen contestant Elisabeth Gobush and her Little Miss Spat co-contestant Charlee Parsley spent their summer working to protect something many in...

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