Northumberland County News

An apparent tornado tore a path of destruction Monday near Wicomico Church, snapping dozens of large trees and destroying two manufactured homes on Bogey Neck Road.

"Is this thing ever going away?" Northumberland County Administrator Kenneth D. Eades asked yesterday.

Across Virginia yesterday, transportation officials reported road closings on five interstates, 24 primary roads and 158 secondary roads, mostly in Hampton Roads and the Danville area.

The Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula Broadband Project will have to wait at least an additional 30 days to find out if its application for stimulus money with which to bring high speed internet to the region will be granted.

On October 17, braving 48 degree temperatures and rain, in county-sponsored collections, residents of Lancaster and Northumberland Counties ignored the elements to get their hazardous material to the collection centers for proper disposal.

According to a recent report by the state, drop out rates in the Northern Neck range from as low as zero percent to as high as 17.5 percent.

Northern Neck Del. Albert C. Pollard Jr. narrowly avoided becoming a victim of a Republican wave that swept through Virginia yesterday.

Northern Neck native Randy Moubray, 39, was appointed to town council in a unanimous vote of members at Monday night's meeting.

Westmoreland County Commonwealth's Attorney Dean J. Atkins has refused to represent the Colonial Beach School Board in a court action to determine if Bronwyn "Anne" Congdon remains a town resident eligible to serve on the school board.

When Northumberland County's Board of Supervisors meets Thursday, it will hear at least one contested application for a conditional use permit.

When Dennis Stephens decided in 1998 to make his organ restoration business a full-time enterprise, restoring a centuries-old house wasn't on his agenda.

Gov. Tim Kaine's fiscal 2010 budget reduction plan is a $300,000 shift from the Marine Resources Commission's Saltwater Fishing Fund to the agency's law enforcement area.

Like ghosts from the past, boats heavy with Potomac River oysters have been pulling up to Rusty Curley's pier in Colonial Beach most mornings for several weeks.

Claiming that B. "Anne" Congdon no longer lives in town, the Colonial Beach School Board has declared her seat on the board vacant and has voted to advertise to find her replacement.

Gateway to Loudoun County is pleased to begin providing a series of occasional "Guest Blogs" written by those very familiar with Loudoun, Dulles and the Northern Virginia region and associated topics consistent with our "business and the community" themes.

The school bell will ring on Tuesday, September 8, for approximately 1,210 students of the Middlesex County Public School System.

All three of Northumberland County Schools are fully accredited according to Virginia standards and Federal guidelines for accreditation.

A discussion between Westmoreland County supervisors and School Board members jumped from an $80,000 replacement of an old concession stand at Washington & Lee High School to fixing the school's leaky roof for perhaps hundreds of thousands of dollars to building a new school for many millions.

Some years ago, the Westmoreland County Sheriff's Department ran an anti-drug campaign that included video tapes of drug sellers who approached the undercover agents to make sales.

Anthony L. Bailey of Callao, 23, was arrested and charged as an accessory to the armed robbery at Callao Stop-In that occurred on March 22, 2009 at about 10:20 p.m. According to Northumberland County Sheriff Chuck Wilkins, Bailey did not go inside the store and commit the armed robbery but assisted the juvenile that was taken into custody on ...