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MIDDLESEX – The annual Arts in the Middle (AIM) Fine Arts Festival on June 3 and 4 at Hewick Plantation near Urbanna will once again offer an extravaganza of fine arts: a weekend full of visual, performing, literary and culinary arts. Middlesex County musician and AIM team member Clayton Neal...

YORK—Yorktown’s Sounds of Summer concert series will begin Thursday, June 1, at Riverwalk Landing, 331 Water Street, Yorktown. The Thursday concerts are from 6:30-9 p.m. through August 10 (no concert July 6). All concerts are free, reported public information officer Gail Whittaker. The Uptown Band will be featured June 1, followed...

by Tom Chillemi - Juneteenth 2023 will “celebrate freedom” on Saturday, June 10, with a parade and festival at Middlesex High School (MHS) in Saluda. The family event is open to the public and will be educating, empowering and entertaining, organizers say. Exhibits and events include food and merchandise vendors,...

LANCASTER—The Friends of Belle Isle State Park recently announced the 2023 Music by the River schedule. The family-friendly outdoor concerts are staged in the waterfront picnic area at Belle Isle State Park, 1632 Belle Isle Road, Lancaster. The series will open at 6 p.m. June 10 with Chris Stanley &...

Historic Yorktown will host back-to-back popular events the weekend of May 6-7 at Riverwalk Landing — Blues, Brews and BBQ and the Art at the River Juried Art Show. Tickets are on sale now at www.villageevents.org for the Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival on Saturday, May 6. From noon...

NORTHUMBERLAND—St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 6801 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, will hold its 2023 Strawberry Festival from 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, May 27. The festival is one of the largest community events in the region and draws thousands of people from the Northern Neck and beyond, reported festival chairman Ellen Kirby. “We’ve won...

Providence, one of Middlesex County’s early architectural treasures, is a fitting location for the Middlesex County Museum and Historical Society’s spring fundraiser, from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, May 21. by Holly Horton Built around 1760 on the Piankatank River, the original aspects of the one-and a half-storied colonial house include hand-hewn beams...

MATHEWS––Looking for a cool experience where science leads to sustainable culinary bliss? Embrace local aquaculture and learn how oysters get their start. Go on a hatchery tour of the Oyster Seed Holdings (OSH) facility, 425 Callis Wharf Road, Hudgins. It is one of Virginia’s largest oyster seed hatcheries. Tours run...

Advance tickets are now on sale Advance tickets and members only ticket packages are now in the mail and on sale for the Deltaville Maritime Museum’s (DMM’s) Groovin’ in the Park 2023, a casual, waterfront, concert series. The warm weather and music will be here before you know it, so...

Allure Art Center’s eighth annual Plein Air Unleashed outdoor painting event will return April 24-29 with new locations, artists and a new venue. Over 30 award-winning fine art painters will come to paint Middlesex County for the week. Watch them work, see demos and buy the original art created, said...