Do you have the energy, in these dog days of summer, to think about issues of importance to Gloucester, Mathews, and Virginia? If so, please use your voice.

The Gazette-Journal is hoping to compile local and state issues of interest to our readers, in preparation for November’s election of delegates, senators, supervisors, school board members, commissioners of revenue, sheriffs, treasurers and commonwealth’s attorneys.

All are on the ballot. All will have the opportunity to state their platforms. We would like to let them know, as well, what is on residents’ minds, and to find out how they respond to these concerns.

You may e-mail your ideas to editor@gazettejournal.net; send them to Gazette-Journal, P.O. Box 2060, Gloucester, Va. 23061; you may clip the form below and mail it, or write your own letter; or, post them on our Facebook site.

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