Lecture next week on ‘Forgotten Black Patriots’ (9/18/2024) - Mathews County Historical Society, in partnership with Mathews Memorial Library, will host a lecture titled, “Forgotten Black Patriots, Loyalists and Women,” at 7 p.m. next Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, at… …Special closed meeting today on Hole in the Wall (9/18/2024) - Mathews County Board of Supervisors’ chair Janice Phillips has scheduled a special meeting to hold a closed session at 4 o’clock today, Thursday, Sept. 19, in the historic courthouse on… …
River Country Quilters to meet Sept. 27 (9/18/2024) - Quilter Emma Jane Powell, an instructor at the Cary (N.C.) Quilting Company, will be the guest speaker at the Friday, Sept. 27 meeting of the River Country Quilters, speaking about… …
‘Pages of Rosewell’ topic of Monday talk (9/18/2024) - The Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia will meet at 10 a.m. Monday in the Community Room of the Gloucester Library, Main Street Center. The program, “The Pages of Rosewell,” will… …Yard, bake sale Saturday at legion post (9/18/2024) - American Legion Auxiliary Post 75, Gloucester, will hold its indoor yard sale and bake sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the post headquarters at 5849 American Legion… …
Glo-BEE (9/18/2024) - Gloucester County Government announced on Monday that local resident Alissa Tanner won the naming contest for its new Bee Mascot. The name she submitted—Glo-BEE—garnered the most votes, as it reflects… …
Gloucester’s wine festival returns under new name (9/18/2024) - The Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual wine festival from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Brent & Becky’s Bulbs. The one-day event will be operating… …
Hall, Marble honored with memorial garden (9/18/2024) - Sanders, a retirement community in Gloucester Court House, and Gloucester Rotary Club have teamed up to establish a memorial garden for lifelong Gloucester residents Robert “Bob” Marble and James Ellis… …Survey seeks input on Gloucester comp plan update (9/18/2024) - Gloucester County will be gathering public feedback from residents to assist with updating the county’s Comprehensive Plan through a random sample survey administered by Zencity. The survey, which is designed… …
Early voting begins Friday (9/18/2024) - Early voting in the Nov. 5 presidential election begins at 8:30 a.m. this Friday, Sept. 20, and the local voter registrars, Carla Faulkner in Mathews and Bobbi Morgan in Gloucester,… …
Fall begins Sunday (9/18/2024) - Fall begins at 8:44 a.m. Sunday, the moment of the autumnal equinox. From then until the spring equinox, each 24-hour period will have more darkness than daylight. …
Bethel Church donation (9/18/2024) - The Mathews County Sheriff’s Office received a $100 donation recently from the Bethel Church of Mathews to help fund some toys for a family in need this Christmas. Here, Nancy… …Plant Extravaganza to be held Friday, Saturday at Moose Lodge (9/11/2024) - The Gloucester Master Gardeners 22nd annual Plant Extravaganza will be held on Friday and Saturday at the Gloucester Moose Lodge, 6565 Moose Drive. The Master Gardeners will have a variety… …
Legion breakfast on Sunday (9/11/2024) - American Legion Post 75, Gloucester, will hold its monthly community breakfast from 8-11:30 a.m. Sunday at the post home, 5849 American Legion Way. The breakfast is $12 for adults; $6… …
Never forget (9/11/2024) - As in years past, Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad, Inc., flew an American flag atop Station 1 in Gloucester Court House on Wednesday morning in memory of the lives… …
Near-perfect weather prevails at Market Days (9/11/2024) - Two days of near-perfect weather, with temperatures in the 70s and barely a hint of rain, favored the 50th anniversary of Mathews Market Days, held on Friday and Saturday on… …
Shirley West Hogge named Guinea Grand Marshal (9/11/2024) - After 25 years of serving Guinea neighbors as a technology assistant at Achilles Elementary and as a community volunteer, and with a lifetime on the water, Shirley West Hogge was… …
23 years later: Service remembers 9/11 tragedy (9/11/2024) - A 9/11 Remembrance and Patriotic Service held on Sunday at Gwynn’s Island Baptist Church drew more than 120 people to remember the many lives lost and sacrifices made by first… …Mathews planners endorse change to short-term rental rule (9/11/2024) - After four months of wrangling over the issue, Mathews planners on Tuesday night voted to recommend to the board of supervisors that a provision in the zoning ordinance that allows… …
Mathews resident takes temporary custody of Richard III seal (9/11/2024) - Liz Bateman of Mathews has been asked to take temporary custody of the Great Seal of King Richard III after the item came up in auction in Northern Virginia. The… …
Left turns from Route 3 to Route 14 prohibited for now (9/11/2024) - The Virginia Department of Transportation began, as of Monday, to prohibit left turns from Route 3 (Windsor Road) to Route 14 eastbound in Mathews County. Work is underway at that… …One injured in Thursday collision (9/11/2024) - One driver was injured in a two-car accident that occurred at 6:10 a.m. last Thursday, Sept. 5, at the intersection of Routes 3 and 14 at Windsor Road. Sgt. J.… …
Gloucester planners recommend denial of event venue (9/11/2024) - The Gloucester County Planning Commission met last Thursday in the colonial courthouse where members unanimously voted to recommend denial of a proposed conditional use permit to establish an event venue… …
Historical interpreter tells tale of James Armistead Lafayette (9/11/2024) - Gloucester’s colonial courthouse was packed with history buffs on Sunday as actor/interpreter Stephen Seals slipped casually into the persona of James Armistead Lafayette, an enslaved African American who spied for… …
Bear donation (9/11/2024) - The Knights of Columbus Council 9428 of St. Therese Roman Catholic Church, Gloucester, donated 50 teddy bears to the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office last Thursday to be kept in patrol… …