2025-03-19
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March 19, 2025
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March 19, 2025
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The terminal building at the Tappahannock-Essex County Regional Airport (KXSA) was filled to capacity on the evening of March 13. Family, friends and fellow aviators gathered to witness John E. Lawler receive the prestigious Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award. The honor recognizes pilots who have demonstrated professionalism, skill and aviation expertise by maintaining safe operations for 50 or more years. […]
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March 19, 2025
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Two recent appointees to Essex County’s staff were introduced during last week’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Kathryn “Kitty” Scott is the new Assistant Social Services Director, while Mitchell “Wes” Packett has been appointed Deputy Chief of Emergency Services. Social Services Director Candace Mickelborough, who introduced Scott, told the supervisors that she and Scott previously worked together some 15 years ago […]
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Tappahannock Elementary School’s Michelle Dungee has been named the Essex School Division’s 2024-25 Teacher of the Year. Ms. Dungee teaches fourth grade math, science, and Virginia Studies. In a letter of recommendation for Dungee’s consideration for Virginia Teacher of the Year, Carol Harrison, TES assistant principal, wrote that Dungee “consistently goes above and beyond to ensure that each child in […]
Lowerys & Town
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March 19, 2025
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The Lowery family has agreed to pay a debt related to unpaid meals tax to the Town of Tappahannock. Tyler Lowery, grandson of the founders of the iconic restaurant, informed the Tappahannock Town Council about the payment proposal during the governing body’s March 10 meeting. The debt includes $64,664.25 in unpaid meals and $43,299.58 in fees, penalties and interest. At […]
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March 19, 2025
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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. […]
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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 […]
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March 19, 2025
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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 […]
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March 19, 2025
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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 […]
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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 […]
