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LANCASTER––The Northern Neck Orchestra (NNO) will open its 2025-26 season October 4 with selections honoring the 150th birthday anniversary of British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, an enduring tribute to a visit to America by Antonin Dvorak and the music of Louise Farrenc, a ground-breaking 19th century French woman pianist and...

YORKTOWN—The Yorktown Wine & Oyster Festival will be held from noon-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, October 4–5 at Riverwalk Landing, 425 Water Street, Yorktown. This two-day ticketed event pairs Virginia’s finest wines with fresh oysters, served raw, roasted, or steamed. Guests can sip, sample and stroll along the Yorktown waterfront...

NORTHUMBERLAND—The Heathsville Farmers Market will be held from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, September 20, at Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern, 73 Monument Place, Heathsville. The market will feature over 60 vendors, offering Northern Neck produce, meat, honey, bread, baked goods, gourmet peanuts, roasted coffee and artisan handcrafts, reported RHHT director Corinne Becker. As part...

"Until the Cardinals Carry Me Home", the debut poetry collection by M. P. Slaughter is set to be released September 26 with a book launch and signing scheduled for Thursday, September 25. M.P. Slaughter is a journalist, photographer, and poet residing in eastern Virginia with her fiancé and Mollie, her...

LANCASTER—The Boys & Girls of the Northern Neck (BGCNN), 517 North Main Street, Kilmarnock, recently announced its annual Reach for the Stars dinner and auction will take place September 18. The theme will be “The Future Looks Bright.” The event will begin with a cocktail hour and silent auction at...

by Tom Chillemi MIDDLESEX––The 29th annual Wings, Wheels & Keels (WW&K) is set for 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 27, at Hummel Field airport, 310 Plainview Road (off Greys Point Road), Topping. WW&K will have more than 100 antique, classic and exotic cars and vehicles, numerous aircraft and more than...

LANCASTER—Garfield’s Rescue Inc. (GRI) will hold the fourth annual Wine & Whiskers gala, a benefit evening of wine, music, hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction, from 5-7:30 p.m. September 4 at Trinity Episcopal Church Pavilion, 8484 Mary Ball Road, Lancaster. Guests can support GRI’s lifesaving homeless cat rescue mission while...

YORKTOWN—The Historic Yorktown waterfront will be alive with the sound of music on Saturday, August 30, when the Virginia Symphony Orchestra returns to Riverwalk Landing. The 27th annual outdoor concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. under the direction of conductor Chia-Hsuan Lin. Visitors are urged to pack a cooler, bring...

MATHEWS––The Mathews Museum reopens Friday, Sept. 5 after two months of renovation. The museum’s first major exhibit will feature, “The Art of the Quilt,” sponsored by the Mathews Bay Quilters Guild. The exhibit showcases the talent of fabric artists and ranges from full-sized quilts to small items such as...

by Tina McCloud for Northern Neck Wooden Boat School NORTHUMBERLAND—Cardboard and duct tape: Does that float your boat? Time to find out on September 6, when the inaugural Cardboard Regatta will be held on Cockrell Creek. The regatta is for all ages. The people-powered boats can be built ahead of time...