Callao’s Music and Crafts Festival is set for June 26 at the Rivah Celebration Center on Village Green Drive starting at 3:00 p.m. “Sunset Syndicate” and the “Scenic Roots Band” will be performing plus the “Flipping Yellow Truck” will be there serving up their cuisine. Tickets are $15 with children 10 and under admitted free. … Read more
Get ready for a road realignment starting Wednesday on Route 3 in Westmoreland County between Flat Iron Road and Winter Harbor Road. DOT officials say the temporary traffic pattern will allow construction to continue on adding passing lanes in each direction between Potomac Mills and Flat Iron. There will be single-lane closures with one-way, alternating … Read more
Congressman Rob Wittman announced he is co-sponsoring the reintroduction of the “Chesapeake Bay Science, Education and Ecosystem Enhancement Act’ which reauthorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Office, strengthens fisheries management and expands environmental education programs across the Watershed. Wittman says the bipartisan measure will ensure healthy and sustainable fisheries as well as … Read more
Congressman Rob Wittman announced he is co-sponsoring the reintroduction of the “Chesapeake Bay Science, Education and Ecosystem Enhancement Act’ which reauthorizes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Office, strengthens fisheries management and expands environmental education programs across the Watershed. Wittman says the bipartisan measure will ensure healthy and sustainable fisheries as well as … Read more
Gloucester County Public Schools names 7th grade math teacher Megan Harris as Teacher of the Year for 2020-21. Harris is a Chistopher Newport University alumnus and completed her master’s of education in curriculum and instruction with a concentration as a math specialist at the College of William & Mary. She’s taught in the division for … Read more
Law enforcement agencies throughout Virginia are being forced to retire their drug-detecting dogs because adult recreational use of marijuana becomes legal on July 1. The newly trained K-9s will be able to detect other illegal drugs oincluding cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines. Virginia state police are retiring 13 K-9s, while some smaller police departments which can’t … Read more
Governor Ralph Northam ended all of Virginia;s COVID-19-related social distancing and capacity restrictions on Friday, two weeks earlier than planned and two weeks after Virginia’s mask mandate ended. Northam tweeted that “commonsense mitigation measures have kept Virginians safe over the last 15 months, and with COVID-19 vaccines now widely available, it is time to begin … Read more
Urbanna’s May Daze event, which was scheduled for last Saturday was postponed due to weather. Urbanna Town Administrator Garth Wheeler tells the Southside Sentinel that several vendors canceled and classic car owners didn’t want to put their vehicles out in the rain or on the soft ground. Wheeler says the event will now be held … Read more
Former Virginia Senator John Warner has died. The World War II and Korean War. veteran served as Navy Secretary for President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974. Warner represented Virginia in the Senate for 30 years, from 1979 to 2009. Warner became the sixth husband of Oscar-winning actress Elizabeth Taylor when they married in 1976. … Read more
The Virginia Employment Commission has until Labor Day to resolve questions and claims from around 92,000 unemployed residents waiting for their jobless benefits resulting from COVID-19. The deadline is part of a settlement from a federal lawsuit brought against the VEC by 5 plaintiffs claiming benefits were denied without a timely explanation. The settlement calls … Read more