Heathsville News

The Northumberland board of supervisors on Thursday, June 7, will conduct a public hearing on a proposed 2012-13 budget totaling $36,061,360, requiring an increase of 3 cents per $100 of assessed value in the real estate tax rate.

Code Blue will perform at the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church fifth annual BBQ & Bluegrass from 5 to 8 p.m. June 2 at Roanoke Farm in Heathsville.

For over a century, strawberry lovers have flocked to Heathsville, not to a pick-your-own farm or produce market but to St.

Northumberland County's board of supervisors will be considering switching people in Hacks Neck from the Heathsville post office to the Burgess location at their next meeting.

When a circuit court in Fairfax decided in January that St. Stephen's Church in Heathsville belonged to Episcopalians, not the Anglicans who had been using it for five years, there was considerable doubt whether there would be a Strawberry Festival on the church grounds Memorial Day weekend.

Five years ago, Rita Thompson had never heard of the Northern Neck. And Lancaster County native Shanita Mitchell had never heard of the University of Mary Washington, where Thompson works as the senior assistant dean of admissions.