Kilmarnock Town Centre Park and Chesapeake Bank welcomes back Music on the Half Shell Stage for 2021. The group “Soul Expressions” will take the stage Friday at 7:00 p.m. Gates open at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults with those 5 and under admitted free with a paying adult. New this year is the … Read more
Virginia’s Democratic primary is today. Voters will choose candidates for governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general. Polls will be open until 7:00 p.m. In Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland Counties voters will choose a candidate for the 99th District House of Delegates race. Today is also the deadline for candidates to file paperwork with the … Read more
Town of Kilmarnock is installing three public gathering spaces, known as ‘parklets’, on portions of the sidewalk within Steptoe’s District. They will be in front of Burke’s Jewelers , The Rivah and Higher Health Foods. This pilot project, done in cooperation with downtown consultancy ReThink Main Street, is designed to provide eye-catching spaces that increase … Read more
If you use Route 625 in Middlesex County also known as Barrrick’s Mill Road, plan for extra time starting next Monday as a bridge construction project means a 3-mile-long detour will be in place for around 14 weeks. The bridge over Barrick’s Pond was deemed structurally deficient and will be , replaced with a 40-foot … Read more
Officials with Mathews Social Services remind parents to be extra cautious when bringing young children near the water. Family Services Supervisor Lisa Burns-Brown tells the Gazette-Journal it can take as little as 20 seconds for a child to drown and some people don’t have experience around docks, beaches or boats so they want to make … Read more
The Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Virginia meets this Saturday via online teleconference at 11:00 a.mn. It will feature a roundtable discussion where participants can share queries and details about their family research. Family historians from around the country have traced their roots to Virginia’s Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck. This meeting … Read more
The Virginia Department of Social Services announced it will once again furnish an emergency allotment for its Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program this month. Benefits will be automatically loaded onto recipients’ Electronic Benefits Transfer cards on June 16. The additional funding comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and will go to over 367,000 Virginia residents. … Read more
The Urbanna Town Council is holding a public hearing on the 2021-2022 budget when it meets online this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. According to the Southside Sentinel the real estate tax remains at $.23 per $100 of assessed value and the personal property tax rate is unchanged at $.37 per $100 of clean trade-in value. … Read more
The suspect in a string of Gloucester County robberies that took place between May 29 and June 2 is in custody. The first occured at a George Washington Memorial Highway convenience store and the most recent was at a Hickory Fork Road location. The suspect identified as Damontae Lamar Diggs was found near that business … Read more
Road crews will be out in Northumberland County to remove pavement markings and installing temporary markers so that means there will be some delays. The work areas are on Route 200 between fthe Northumberland /Lancaster County line to just north of Route 699 and on Route 609 between Route 200 to just east of Route … Read more