Feature Articles

Ten bluebird nest boxes were installed during February at Holly Point Nature Park on the grounds of the Deltaville Maritime Museum (DMM). On Feb. 12, volunteers with Virginia Master Naturalists-Middle Peninsula Chapter placed poles in the ground and mounted baffles and nest boxes to each. The population of bluebirds...

The 28th Gardening in the Northern Neck, hosted by the Northern Neck Master Gardeners, will be held March 26 at the White Stone Church of the Nazarene, 57 Whisk Drive, White Stone. The theme will be "Landscape, Viewscape, Escape!" Featured speakers will include Joseph Tychonievich, C. Colston "Cole"...

KILMARNOCK—The Liz Moore & Associates team in Kilmarnock will offer a tasty selection of four cupcakes in exchange for a donation to a worthy organization, Smith Point Sea Rescue (SPSR), based in Burgess. The Liz Moore & Associates “Cupcake Wars” is an annual company event where each real estate...

The Northern Neck Orchestra (NNO) will present “Warmth in Winter” at 2:30 p.m. February 6 at Good Luck Cellars, 1025 Goodluck Road, Kilmarnock. The concert will feature chamber music performed by the Atlantic Chamber Ensemble (ACE), a dynamic group of young professional musicians based in Richmond. Ace is comprised...

Community invited to try out resurfaced courts weekends, after 5 p.m. on weekdays by Don Richeson -  Middlesex County Public Schools recently had Middlesex High School’s (MHS) tennis courts resurfaced and new nets added. Additionally, pickleball lines were added to two courts in hopes the community could get some more use...

Deltaville’s “Great Decisions” presentations and discussions begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, and will continue the same times each Friday through April 8. Presentations include:    • Feb. 11, Climate Change — Pep Fuller has given presentations on global climate change to the William and Mary Law School as...

A new year, a new start. While some began the first day of the new year purging their homes of holiday decorations, or mapping out plans to achieve new goals and resolutions, or even recovering from antics of the night before, others stepped into the new year by walking...

by Tom Chillemi -  There is plenty of help available for Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck residents looking to improve their land with trees. For planting open land in the Rappahannock River watershed, it is probably best to check with the Friends of the Rappahannock (FOR) about funding opportunities, advises Forester...

by Jackie Nunnery -  When guests enter Lottsburg’s Cygnets restaurant, 2816 Northumberland Highway, they immediately see the bones and character of Watkins General Store, circa 1921. The original wood floors, tin ceilings and shelving-lined walls provide a charming backdrop a century later; and like its retail predecessor, offers a welcoming...

This article was originally appeared in the May 2014 issue of The Rivah Visitor's Guide. by Tom Chillemi -  There is so much to see at the Gwynn’s Island Museum you will probably want to come back again and again. While walking on a Gwynn’s Island beach in the late 1970s, Jean...