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The Essex County Board of Supervisors has agreed to instruct legal counsel to draft an agreement in which financial departments of the county and the Essex School Division will consolidate. The supervisors took the action at their March 11 meeting. The county’s School Board voted the previous night to engage in a cooperative services agreement with the Board of Supervisors. […]

Smoke alarms have been credited with saving the lives of three adults and an infant following an early morning blaze in Essex County on March 13. Tappahannock-Essex Fire Department Chief Paul Richardson said a structure fire at 3851 Mount Landing Road was reported after smoke detectors awoke Keith Washington. Richardson said Washington discovered fire shooting from a receptacle in the […]

Essex County taxpayers should expect to receive amended reassessment notices in the mail soon. The Essex County Board of Supervisors were briefed about the mass appraisal during its March 11 work session. A mass appraisal is a method for valuing a group of properties using standardized procedures and statistical analysis. Reassessment is the process by which the assessed value of […]

The Essex County Board of Supervisors learned the results of the county’s recently completed audit for fiscal year 2024 during its March 11 work session. Taylor Stover, a certified public accountant for the firm Robinson, Farmer, Cox Associates, briefed the supervisors about the report. Stover said the firm expressed an unmodified opinion on each of the following: • Financial statements […]

The Tappahannock Town Council learned last week that an ongoing reassessment is expected to increase real estate values within the town by an average of 41 percent. Essex Commissioner of the Revenue Kristen A. Foster was present at Council’s March 10 meeting to provide an update about the matter. Reassessments are conducted periodically to ensure that all properties within a […]

King and Queen County has awarded Grimm + Parker Architects the contract to develop a master site plan for the construction of a new elementary school and academic campus. The project will proceed with further stakeholder engagement and public input opportunities to ensure that the final plan aligns with the needs and vision of King and Queen County leaders and […]

U.S. House of Representative members representing the Chesapeake Bay Region — Rob Wittman (R-VA-01), Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Jen Kiggans (R-VA-02), and Sarah Elfreth (D-MD-03) – have introduced the Chesapeake Bay Conservation Acceleration Act. The legislation would focus federal resources on the aptaxes proximately 83,000 farms in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to boost voluntary conservation efforts that help achieve water quality […]