Mathews library to celebrate holidays beginning Dec. 8 (11/26/2024) - Mathews Memorial Library has a full season of holiday fun ahead, beginning with its annual decorating party on Sunday, Dec. 8. Join the library on Dec. 8 for its annual… …
Cappahosic Academy featured in ornament (11/26/2024) - Gloucester County’s 2024 commemorative ornament featuring the Gloucester Agricultural and Industrial Institute is now available. For the past 25 years, the Gloucester County Historical Committee has chosen a historic location,… …‘Allen the Lionhearted’ (11/26/2024) - A special blood drive was held on Nov. 15 at Providence Baptist Church, Hayes, in honor of this young man, Allen Speer, above, with this drive held on the two-year… …
Collards for Christmas (11/26/2024) - Bruce Williams of Hayes, looks over the collards he has ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas meals for his family. …
Christmas comes to G.I. (11/26/2024) - Donna Wyckoff of Gwynn, and her Shih Tzu Ira visited with Santa Claus on Saturday afternoon during Christmas Comes to the Gwynn’s Island Museum. The free family event offered a… …
Thanksgiving table (11/26/2024) - The Tompkins Cottage in Mathews was open to visitors on Saturday during the Thanksgiving Farmers’ Market held on the Court Green. Simply decorated in period-appropriate style, the cottage was ready… …
USCG searches for missing boater (11/26/2024) - The U.S. Coast Guard issued a missing person report Monday on Timothy “Pirate Daddy” Henderson of Orlando, Florida. According to a post shared on the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Virginia… …
GHS junior acts FAST to save life (11/26/2024) - Spotting the first signs of a stroke can be difficult, but not for 16-year-old Hannah Broadwell who acted quickly to save the life of her best friend’s mother earlier this… …BOS supports broadband, Williams Wharf projects (11/26/2024) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors voiced support for two projects in the county after hearing presentations from project representatives during the monthly meeting, held on Thursday, Nov. 21, in… …
Offices, courts remain closed for Thanksgiving holiday (11/26/2024) - All courts and county offices in Gloucester and Mathews closed at noon yesterday, Wednesday, Nov. 27, and will remain closed today and Friday in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Schools… …
Retirement tribute (11/26/2024) - A parade of fire trucks from Gloucester and Abingdon, as well as patrol cars with lights flashing and sirens blaring, made their way around Gloucester’s Emergency Communications Center on Friday… …
Hands Across Mathews gift (11/26/2024) - The Mathews Branch of the NAACP presented a $1,000 donation to Hands Across Mathews at the NAACP monthly meeting, held on Nov. 18 at Antioch Baptist Church, Susan. NAACP president… …Supervisors hold six-hour closed meeting Friday (11/26/2024) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors held a six-hour closed meeting Friday in the historic courthouse on Court Street. The special meeting convened at 10 a.m. and the board remained… …
VIMS announces winners of 25th annual photo contest (11/26/2024) - The College of William & Mary’s Batten School of Coastal and Marine Sciences and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have announced the winners of their 25th annual photo contest.… …
Gloucester BOS receives utilities update; info on possible encroachment (11/20/2024) - Topics of discussion at Tuesday night’s Gloucester Board of Supervisors’ work session, held in the colonial courthouse, included a utilities update and a discussion about homeowners possibly encroaching on Gloucester… …
Booze Fighters (11/20/2024) - The Booze Fighters Motorcycle Club, Chapter 35 held a Poker Run fundraiser back in August to benefit the Samaritan Group of Gloucester. On Nov. 16 at Eggheads Diner, members of… …
Five Rivers Woman’s Club (11/20/2024) - The Five Rivers Woman’s Club met at the Guinea Heritage Museum (formerly Buck Rowe’s Store) in Bena this week and heard a talk by Hamilton Williams, below, of the Guinea… …Abingdon students receive grant for Colonial Williamsburg trip (11/20/2024) - Abingdon Elementary School’s fourth graders will soon head to Colonial Williamsburg on a charter bus, thanks to a grant from the American Battlefield Trust’s History Field Trip Grant Program. This… …
AVFR Santa Runs begin Nov. 30 (11/20/2024) - Abingdon Volunteer Fire and Rescue, Inc., will begin its yearly Santa Runs in lower Gloucester County on the Saturday following Thanksgiving and running each Saturday through Dec. 21. All the… …
Machicomoco great place for day trips in December (11/20/2024) - Don’t let winter trap you inside; Machicomoco State Park in Hayes is a great place for day trips in December. Explore its trails from dawn to dusk or check out… …
Point branch to hold holiday craft program (11/20/2024) - Gloucester County Public Library, Point Branch, will hold a Holiday Craft program on Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. Create a sparkly holiday decoration.Registration is now open. For adults 18 and… …
Rotary project to rehab New Point observation deck proceeding (11/20/2024) - The Mathews Rotary Club is seeing a project it’s been working on for four years finally come to fruition—reconstruction of the over 200-foot-long walkway and observation deck at the New… …
Letters to Santa (11/20/2024) - The Mathews Museum (located at 200 Main Street), acting on behalf of Santa Claus, has installed a special mail box at its front door. Letters deposited from now to Christmas… …Ocean Products topic of upcoming museum talk (11/20/2024) - As Ocean Products Research celebrates its 60th anniversary, Sawyer Hutson—the Mathews County company’s new president and grandson of company founder Robert C. “Bobby” Hutson—will be the guest speaker at a… …
Planners discuss tiny homes (11/20/2024) - The Mathews County Planning Commission held a lengthy discussion about tiny homes at its Nov. 12 meeting in the historic courthouse. Bobby Andrade, the county’s new planning and zoning director,… …