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This is an election year for several seats in local government. Voter registrars for Lancaster and Northumberland counties confirmed the deadline to file for local office is 7 p.m. on June 17. The ...

IRVINGTON—Lovey Jane Long of Irvington, 89, died on Friday, March 7, 2025. Lovey was born in Lewes, Del., and was raised in Onancock on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She graduated with a degree in ...

REEDVILLE—Rescue III, Smith Point Sea Rescue’s (SPSR) newest vessel, has recently returned from a week of search and rescue exercises and training with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Port of Virginia.

The Lancaster school board on Monday, March 10, unanimously recommended a $20,969,588 budget, a 2.61% increase over the current budget, with no change in local funding of $14,236,492. As proposed, the ...

WEEMS—Daniel James Ludeman Sr. passed away peacefully on March 9 at his home on Carter Creek in Weems, surrounded by family.

Two new exhibits, Whatever the Weather and Step Back in Time, recently opened to the public at the RAL Art Center, 19 North Main Street, Kilmarnock. The Jane Stouffer Exhibit Room show, Whatever the ...

A bluebird nesting box recently was installed adjacent to the playground at the Lancaster Early Childhood Education Center in Kilmarnock just in time for the spring breeding season. The box was made ...

The Lancaster County Lions Club recently announced the winners of the 2025 James Bland Music Competition. Following a recital at Rappahannock Westminster-Canterbury (RWC), president Fred Pevahouse, ...

The Northumberland County Historical Society (NCHS) will present historian Mark Gearhart at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 6, at the Ball Memorial Library and Museum, 86 Back Street, Heathsville. Gearhart ...

A Smith Point Sea Rescue crew receives a risk assessment briefing prior to an on-the-water training exercise.