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Historic Yorktown will host back-to-back popular events the weekend of May 6-7 at Riverwalk Landing — Blues, Brews and BBQ and the Art at the River Juried Art Show. Tickets are on sale now at www.villageevents.org for the Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival on Saturday, May 6. From noon...

NORTHUMBERLAND—St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 6801 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, will hold its 2023 Strawberry Festival from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 27. The festival is one of the largest community events in the region and draws thousands of people from the Northern Neck and beyond, reported festival chairman Ellen Kirby. “We’ve won...

Providence, one of Middlesex County’s early architectural treasures, is a fitting location for the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society’s spring fundraiser, from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 21. by Holly Horton Built around 1760 on the Piankatank River, the original aspects of the one-and a half-storied colonial house include hand-hewn beams...

MATHEWS––Looking for a cool experience where science leads to sustainable culinary bliss? Embrace local aquaculture and learn how oysters get their start. Go on a hatchery tour of the Oyster Seed Holdings (OSH) facility, 425 Callis Wharf Road, Hudgins. It is one of Virginia’s largest oyster seed hatcheries. Tours run...

Advance tickets are now on sale Advance tickets and members only ticket packages are now in the mail and on sale for the Deltaville Maritime Museum’s (DMM’s) Groovin’ in the Park 2023, a casual, waterfront, concert series. The warm weather and music will be here before you know it, so...

Allure Art Center’s eighth annual Plein Air Unleashed outdoor painting event will return April 24-29 with new locations, artists and a new venue. Over 30 award-winning fine art painters will come to paint Middlesex County for the week. Watch them work, see demos and buy the original art created, said...

The Virginia Writers Series, sponsored by the Friends of Belle Isle, will continue from 2-4 p.m. April 12, at Belle Isle State Park, 1632 Belle Isle Road, Lancaster. The featured writer will be Cindy L. Freeman. Described as a “literary late bloomer,” Freeman didn’t get around to writing her first...

Rice's Hotel/Hughlett's Tavern, 73 Monument Place, Heathsville, will offer a Take-out BBQ Dinner from 4-6 p.m. on Sunday, March 12. Sid Mace, a certified North Carolina BBQ Master, will prepare pulled pork, BBQ sauce and "Jack Daniels" baked beans. The meal also will come with Tavern-made potato salad and coleslaw,...

  Misteps and missed cues were evident during rehearsals of The Westmoreland Players’ upcoming production, but for guest director Jake Beckhard, they were not at all disastrous. They were, in fact, necessary pieces to an intricately plotted farce where nearly everything that could go wrong, does. “Noises Off,” a 1982 English...

Barbara Ehman, left, of Fredericksburg and Liz Via of Urbanna toss socks into a fire as Charlotte Silverman of Morattico watches. They were among the scores who came out last year to participate in various forms of annual sock-burning revelry at Evolution Sails Chesapeake in Deltaville. The burning of socks...