Kinsale News

Westmoreland County officials left only bits of public paper along the path that led them to a controversial contract with The O'Gara Group, according to opponents of the security-training company.

Solomon "Al" Smith remembers when oysters were plentiful. Smith, 72, who lives in Westmoreland County, started tonging them 50 years ago from an 18-foot skiff in the waters around Kinsale.

In the eyes of some, the salvation of the Chesapeake Bay oyster industry, and perhaps the Bay itself, lies in a bushel of Asian oysters sitting on the concrete floor of a Northern Neck oyster house.

Jacques Recht, 78, born in Belgium and educated in England and Belgium, passed away at Riverside Hospital, Tappahannock, on Sunday, March 8, 2009.

These are just a few of the dares taken by either me or my friends growing up. I don't share these goofy deeds to defend them, but to acknowledge the fact that, by the time most typical males reach adulthood, ...