News Staff The agenda for Thursday’s Urbanna Town Council meeting includes a presentation from the Hampton Roads Sanitation District where a representative will discuss plans to demolish a Linden Ave. home to build a new sewage pump station. The Southside Sentinel reports the meeting will start an hour earlier than usual at 6:00 p.m. and includes a … Read more
Prepare for delays today if you need to use Route 360 in Esex County. Virginia DOT crews will be working on pavement markings between the King and Queen County Line and Aviation Lane. Work takes place until 7:00 p.m. and there will be mobile single lane closures. Overnight milling and paving work continues the rest … Read more
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Rappahannock holds its Monthly Drum Circle event this Sunday at Kilmarnock Towne Park. A Kids Drum Circle is set for 3:00 p.m. and the All Ages Drum Circle is at 4:00 p.m. No experience is necessary and if you don’t have a drum there will be ones available at … Read more
An outside consuntant is being hired by the Middlesex County Public School Board to chart the future of the division’s high school in Saluda. The Southside Sentinel reports the board issued a request for proposals to develop a master plan for the school which is over 70 years old. The consultant will be asked to … Read more
The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors approves a conditional use permit application from Nursery Lane Storage, LLC which is constructing an electrical energy storage facility off Nursery Lane. The Gazette-Journal reports supervisors approved the permit and a siting plan by a 4 to 3 margin following 2 public hearings held before the vote. The siting … Read more
Some Virginia school bus drivers who received unemployment during COVID-19 are now being ordered to pay those benefits back. The Virginia Mercury reports it’s due to a federal law limiting when school workers qualify for unemployment because they get summers off. Secretary of Labor Megan Healy and a spokeswoman for the Virginia Employment Commission says … Read more
Virginia COVID-19 Vaccine Coordinator Dr. Danny Avlua says he believes the Food and Drug Administration will likely give full approval to COVID-19 vaccines and also okay their use for children aged 5 to 11. Avula made the comments during a conference call on Tuesday and said those two actions will move Virginia forward to getting … Read more
The Middlesex County Public Library wraps up its summer reading program at 11:00 a.m. this Thursday at the Deltaville Maritime Museum and Holly Point Nature Park. The Southside Sentinel reports the event features magician, juggler and comedian Jonathan Austin. Afterwards library officials will announce the summer reading contest winners including the middle school top readers. … Read more
Those going to Rappahannock General Hospital are seeing the results of a beautification project completed by the Kilmarnock Garden Club. Project coordinator Joanna Marchetti tells the Rappahannock Record club members worked on the planters in front of the hospital’s temporary main entrance. Sarah Farmer who is the hospital’s administrative facilities director of nursing said they … Read more
Bridge washing operations take place this week on several Gloucester County roads. Those include Roaring Spring Road between Kimberly Drive and Main Street, Main Street between Route 14 and Route 17, Dutton Road between Freeport Road and New Upton Farms Lane, Allmondsville Road near Ark Road and Hickory Fork Road between Haynes Pond Way and … Read more