Despite all of its quaint charm, historic integrity and friendly atmosphere, the Town of Montross is little more than a 35 mile-per-hour inconvenience for many passersby who opt not to experience one of the Northern Neck's diamonds in the rough.

Out of 15 bridges in the county, almost half are classified by the state as structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation's most recent inspection reports.

After the county opened Westmoreland's doors to the O'Gara Group, the courts will soon decide whether they let them in through the front or the back.

On June 8, the first of two suits related to the county's sale of property to the...

Members of the Colonial Beach Town Council and School Board received a wake-up call last Monday from the Miller Foley Auditor's Group and a key consideration made by auditor Nancy Miller was an "Internal Control System."

The purpose...

The Region "A" Division 1 Champions, the Colonial Beach Drifters advanced to the Division 1 State Chapionship after beating the Alta Vista...

Financially healthy was the report given to the Westmoreland County Board of Supervisors by a representative of the Certified Public Accounting firm of Robinson, Farmer, Cox Associates at the BOS' March meeting held Monday at...

Monday's Westmoreland Board of Supervisors meeting involved more talk from the public that action by the supervisors, early in the meeting about economic development and late about the O'Gara Group. County business was sandwiched in between.

The...

McDermott and Moncure return as chairman and vice-chairman

Robert McDermott and Richard Moncure are back in the 'lead saddles' again for another year as the Westmoreland County Planning Commission voted to return them...

Two Colonial Beach leaders have taken their feud public on issues involving the government of the town.

The incident between Colonial Beach's Mayor Frederick Rummage and Vice-Mayor Trish King surfaced at a June 25 special meeting after Rummage had sought legal counsel.

Delegate Albert Pollard announced this week his re-election effort to represent the 99th House of Delegates district in Richmond. Pollard was elected in a special election to fill the unexpired term of Rob Wittman who was elected to Congress following Congresswoman...

Basketball players from the Northern Neck and Tidewater District managed to get together for one last game to end the winter season. The girls and boys gathered at the 11th Annual Northern Neck Shriner's Club All-Star game in Northumberland to help raise money for...

Dwayne Stewart Jr. sentenced to 31 years

"Everybody is lying." That was the substance of Dwayne Stewart Jr.'s testimony on his own behalf when he was tried in Westmoreland County's circuit court last Tuesday on 10 charges...

The circuit courtroom in Montross was filled beyond capacity during Monday night's Board of Supervisors meeting and the crowd wasn't there to hear about highways and schools.

Judging from the number of anti-O'Gara...

Can you say STATE CHAMPIONS? Hold on now, I'm getting ahead of myself. As a keen observer of Colonial Beach High School basketball for 43 years, I'd like to share some of my thoughts with you over this time frame.

The 1967-68 school...

In his Nashville Skyline album, Bob Dylan sang the following about a relationship:

"All of those awful things that I have heard, I don't want to believe them, all I want is your word. So darlin', you better come through, Tell me that...

The 15th Annual Drifter Baseball Camp was a huge success at Monroe Park last week with 75 campers enjoying the grand ole game. It was a smash hit as the youngsters' enthusiasm rang out each day with a full week of fun on the fields.

The Westmoreland Braves of the Westmoreland County Little League won the Rookie Baseball Tournament, 5-3 this past Saturday at Hurt Field under the lights. Pictured are the Braves and the coaching staff.

Swope and Carey headed to State's All-Star game

Riding through the Town of Colonial Beach, you could not help but find the "Drifter-spirit" since the Colonial Beach Drifters Boys' Basketball team won the Group A State...

VHSL State Tournament Quarter-Finals

The Colonial Beach Drifters varsity boy's basketball team is walking where no basketball team has ever walked!! The Drifters are rewriting the history books at CBHS every day as they...

The Colonial Beach Drifters varsity boy's basketball team won all three games last week and clinched their second Tidewater District regular season championship in a row. The Drifters swept through Middlesex, King William and West Point to push their current winning...