Last Thursday was International Museum Day, and it was a very lucrative occasion for the Kilmarnock Museum, which took in over $4,200.

A 74-year-old man was killed in his home at 78 Lara Ridge Rd. on Saturday, May 13.

Gregory Packett’s development company, Warsaw LLC., is requesting to rezone portions of a 63.5-acre land package and get approval for the conceptual layout of a new housing development to go on it.

Given the abundance of stories that obsess over police having to take a life in the line of duty, last week’s Town Council meeting in Colonial Beach was a pleasant surprise as there was some well-earned recognition for Officer Barrow. CBPD Chief Gregory Deaver addressed the Council speaking at length about the incident that Barrow participated in.

The wheels are in motion to bring a Domino’s to Warsaw.

In February, members of Richmond County Jr. BETA Club went to the state convention, and came home with a top-3 position in eight categories. Those students qualify for the National Beta Convention in Louisville, KY, and 14 students committed to going.  

Given the constant calls from people looking at doing business in King George, the County needs to consider a second industrial park, Nick Miner, the director of economic development and tourism told the Board of Supervisors last fall.

Warsaw Town Council officially opposed VDOT’s Rt. 360 road diet last week and made a list of requests.

To those wishing for water under the bridge near Hurt Field in Montross, the continuing saga of the Chandler’s Mill Pond has been a source of annoyance and frustration.

Pressed by homeowners in subdivisions with R-3, Restricted Residential lots, Northumberland Supervisors approved a Zoning Ordinance change that will require a conditional use permit (CUP) for vacation home rentals, like Airbnb and Vrbo, in those zones.

Virginia State Police are searching for the driver of a light-colored Jeep that reportedly hit a flagger in Westmoreland on May 9 at about 10:35 p.m. and fled the scene.

The Richmond County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on May 25 at 1 p.m. to vote on whether to submit a Community Development Block Grant application to improve housing on Scott Town Road.

Preliminary engineering work for the Norris Bridge replacement is underway, and additional activities are set to begin this summer. But despite hopes and appeals to speed up the flow of money so construction can start sooner, as it stands, the building phase remains in the distant future.

People tracking the progress of the County Bridge Road project may have noticed what appears to be a standstill. Work has been suspended and won’t resume until July due to environmental restrictions that bar VDOT from creating disturbance in Cat Point Creek.

Last week, before the public hearing on the Secondary Six-Year Plan for Westmoreland, Carter White, VDOT assistant residency administrator, gave a recap on the background of the program, as well as the Rural Rustic Roads program, which is designed to get gravel roadways that don’t see a whole lot of use per day paved.

Last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting in Westmoreland, marked one of the rare occasions when there’s a request to change the name of a road. The reasoning behind it was simple enough as there were already multiple roads with similar names that could cause some navigational nightmares.

Seventy-five years is quite a lot of time to spend doing anything.  So, imagine a group of people that have been jumping into the jaws of death at any time of the day to save a life, and who have done so for nothing. Last Saturday, the Westmoreland Volunteer Fire Department celebrated a full 75 years of such service at their firehouse in Montross.

Patrick Banker of St. Stephens Church and Jose Rivas of Tappahannock are believed to be responsible for a string of burglaries across multiple jurisdictions.

The DAW Theatre in Tappahannock served its community from 1939 until its closing in 1997, but a local foundation is raising funds to possibly reopen the theatre by 2025.

Warsaw LLC is proposing another housing development and has submitted a rezoning application that developer Gregory Packett is expected to make a presentation on at the Town Council meeting this week.

Last month, during the public meeting on the Rt. 360 road diet, which proposes to reduce the number of lanes running through Warsaw, VDOT staff explained why residents haven’t seen some of the changes that many have requested.

A $500 cash reward is being offered for information that leads to the arrest of a person who reportedly stole a product from Rhino Tobacco & Vapes in Warsaw.

The start of May has been surprisingly busy for Stratford Hall. What was expected to be a modest fundraiser, instead, shattered expectations.

May 7 – 13 marks the 40th annual National Travel and Tourism Week. For the occasion, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced over $3.2 million in marketing funds for tourism programs across the state.

Last month, King George Supervisors approved the purchase of  a 3.15-acre lot in Dahlgren for a new station for Fire and Rescue Company 2.

Another Northern Neck man has pled guilty to federal dogfighting charges.

“We don’t want it.” That straight-to-the-point comment, which one Warsaw man shouted multiple times, was the key overall takeaway from locals at VDOT’s public hearing for the Rt. 360 road diet.

Celebrating its fifth annual celebration of the river hawk, Colonial Beach had its Osprey Fest.

An early morning fire on April 19, 2022 ravaged an entire block of Irvington Rd. and claimed the life of Stacey Lee Kellum. A year later, his family gathered around the Memorial Garden at the Kilmarnock Museum as Stacey Kellum Jr. placed his father’s plaque in the ground, making him an unforgotten, enduring part of the Town.

The Northumberland County Board of Supervisors voted this month to repeal a county code section that prohibited citizens from carrying loaded shotguns or rifles in vehicles while driving on public roadways. The board voted 4-1 to repeal §72-4, which can be found in Chapter 72 of the County Code.

“Dear Lord… we especially thank you for the continued healing that allows our colleague to join us here this evening,” King George Supervisor Ann Cupka said in a prayer, opening the Board of Supervisors meeting last Tuesday.

Ocean Harvesters, the menhaden fishing operation that supplies Omega Protein’s Reedville factory announced an MOU with the State that imposes guideline restrictions for how the company operates.