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10/08/2025

Read all about Bragg & Company: Three Generations Rooted in the Northern Neck in our special supplement, Bay Heritage 2025.

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10/01/2025

Read all about Pearls of the Chesapeake: Your Trusted Real Estate Experts in the River Realm, in our special supplement, Bay Heritage 2025.

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10/01/2025

09/30/2025

Read all about Irvington Baptist Church.
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09/25/2025

Bay Heritage, an award-winning, 36-page annual supplement, celebrates the history and traditions of our waterfront communities. It appears in the Sept. 25 print of the Southside Sentinel, available NOW on newsstands throughout Middlesex County!

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09/17/2025

Parts of this 2015 Freightliner Cascadia big rig, driven by Calvin J. Woodward of Brandywine, Md., were sheared off went it struck the side of the U.S. 17 bridge over the Dragon Run in Middlesex County last week, the Virginia State Police (VSP) reported. The impact damaged the bridge, including the concrete support pillars along the side of the bridge, the VSP reported. At least one lane of the bridge remained closed for several days to allow crews to repair the damage, which was described as “significant.”

For the full story and additional photo, be sure to pick up the Sept. 18 print edition of the Southside Sentinel. It’s available Thursday morning on newsstands throughout Middlesex County!

(Photos courtesy of Virginia State Police)

09/03/2025

Del. Keith Hodges, R-Urbanna, left, speaks with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin along the Rappahannock River in White Stone on Thursday, Aug. 28. The governor visited the area to sign the Commonwealth Transportation Special Structures Program Revenue Bond Act, which will provide funds to replace the Robert O. Norris Jr. Bridge, in background, to begin in 2028, eight years ahead of the time originally scheduled.

For the full story and more photos, be sure to pick up a copy of the Sept. 4 print edition of the Southside Sentinel. It’s available Thursday morning on newsstands through Middlesex County!

(Photo by William Pullman.)

08/27/2025

Middlesex County Administrator Matt Walker announced his retirement last week, effective March 31, 2026, after more than 32 years of service in Virginia local government — 17 years here in Middlesex and 14 of those as the county administrator.

His fellow county officials have been stepping up to praise the longtime administrator.

For the full story, be sure to pick up the Aug. 28 print edition of the Southside Sentinel. It’s available Thursday morning on newsstands throughout Middlesex County!

08/27/2025

This ground crew gives an indication of the size of one of the drones being used as crop dusters this summer over Saluda cornfields. CLAS Corporation LLC of Saluda contracted to have some of its cornfields sprayed with fungicide and fertilizer, said Allen Hunt, who with his father, Chuck Hunt, own CLAS. “We utilize technology to maximize efficiency,” said Allen Hunt. “Fungicide helps to mitigate stress in a crop” and sprayed fertilizer is absorbed through the leaves of the corn plant.

For the full story and more photos, be sure to pick up a copy of the Aug. 28 print edition of the Southside Sentinel. It’s available Thursday morning on newsstands throughout Middlesex County!

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(Photo by Tom Chillemi.)

08/25/2025

Middlesex High School’s (MHS) Dereon Cooke, with ball, is caught from behind by a Franklin High School defender in a varsity scrimmage on Friday, Aug. 22. MHS lineman Andrew Harrow (56) can be seen in the background. The 2025-2026 Chargers open regular season play Thursday, Aug. 28, against Surry High School on the Panthers home field in Dendron.

Be sure to pick up a copy of the Aug. 28 print edition of the Southside Sentinel for its big annual Charger football season preview. We’ll have schedules for both the varsity and junior varsity teams, as well as for Christchurch School. It’s chock-full of must-read info for Charger gridiron fans and is available Thursday morning on newsstands throughout Middlesex County!

Also, don’t miss out on your chance to win a $25 gift certificate by showing off your pigskin prognostication prowess in our football contest, which also returns in the Aug. 28 edition! The deadline to enter this week is 5 p.m. Thursday, a day earlier than usual due to the first week of high school games being a day earlier than usual.

(Photo by Larry Chowning.)

08/22/2025

Another Norris Bridge closing announced …