Urbanna News

If the Urbanna Town Council votes to adopt a leash law, town taxpayers will be footing the bill for the cost of extra enforcement - not the county, wrote Assistant Middlesex County Administrator Marcia Jones in a letter dated November 19 to Urbanna citizen Robert H. Calves.

Kenneth and Jeannine Rowe by Tom Chillemi The Middlesex community is a better place because of people like Jeannine and Kenneth Rowe, who have been chosen as the grand marshals of the December 4 Urbanna Hometown Christmas Parade.

The third county-wide Middlesex County Hall of Fame induction was held November 8 at Friendship Baptist Church in Hartfield.

Shell fossils along the shores of Urbanna Creek are receiving national attention through a recently published book, a oeMolluscan Paleontology of the Chesapeake Miocene.a Author Edward J. Petuch wrote in his introduction that the a oecoastal plains area of Maryland and Virginia, encompassing the Chesapeake Bay and .

Ita s often said that the first person to eat an oyster was brave, or very hungry.

Here's a view of the Rappahannock River near Queen Anne's Cove. Notice how far inland the river is today.

Urbannaa TMs Virginia Street was filled with onlookers at the 52nd annual Oyster Festival Firemana TMs Parade on Friday night.

Timmy Jenkins of Hayes battles Deborah Pratt of Middlesex for the Virginia Oyster Shucking championship last Saturday behind the firehouse.

Watermen Keith Jett and Billy Robinson of Lewisetta circle Temple Bay rock near Christchurch School in the Rappahannock River at sunrise, pulling their dredge with the workboat - Wendy Lee." Numerous oyster boats have worked the Rappahannock the past few weeks with good results - just in time for the Oyster Festival.

Tickets are now on sale for the Chesapeake Chorale's annual holiday concerts.A Performances of "A Chesapeake Chorale Christmas" are scheduled for 8 p.m. Saturday, December 5, at Lancaster Middle School in Kilmarnock and 3 p.m. Sunday, A December 6, at St.

Deborah Pratt of Middlesex repeated as the Virginia Oyster Shucking Champion and Timmy Jenkins of Hayes was runner-up at the 52nd annual Urbanna Oyster Festival Saturday.

Kendall McNamee was crowned Queen of 52nd annual Urbanna Oyster Festival Friday and Katie Brooke was selected Little Miss Spat.

Graphic artist Jeremy Glover of Richmond created the 2009 official Urbanna Oyster Festival Poster.

Ready for the cooler temperatures Lady Jane, a miniature Dachsund takes in her surroudings from a low angle as visitors to the Urbanna Oyster Festival stroll Virginia Street in 2006.

The "Iva W." and "Propwash" will again be among the historic boats on display at the Urbanna waterfront.

Starting November 9 and continuing through November 18, dogs in Urbanna must be a oeconfined to the homes or lots of their owners,a under a provision of the town code.

The Urbanna Oyster Festival tradition, which was started by a dozen or so local merchants and "town fathers" in 1958, continues this Friday and Saturday, November 6-7. The 52nd annual festival will once again provide good times and a variety of tasty food and lively music for the tens of thousands of expected festival-goers. More than 100 vendors ...

According to results on the State Board of Elections website, Pete Mansfield of the Urbanna area easily defeated incumbent Robert Crump of Topping in Tuesday's election for a Saluda District seat on the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors.

Age: 73 Education: Middlesex High School, 1954; bachelor's, Randolph-Macon College, 1962; master's, 1966, and doctorate, 1974, both University of Mississippi .

The Urbanna Oyster Festival tradition, which was started by a dozen or so local merchants and a oetown fathersa in 1958, continues this Friday and Saturday, November 6-7. The 52nd annual festival will once again provide good times and a variety of tasty food and lively music for the tens of thousands of expected festival-goers. More than 100 ...