Christmas parades (11/20/2024) - Gloucester County will hold its Christmas & Holiday Parade on Dec. 7 and Mathews County will hold its Christmas Parade, “Blue Crab Christmas,” on Dec. 14. Both will take place… …
Franktronics light show (11/20/2024) - Franktronics, the computer sales and service company located at 3618 George Washington Memorial Highway, Hayes, renews its annual Christmas Lighthouse in 2024. Frank Farmer said the show will be illuminated… …
Christmas in Guinea (11/20/2024) - Buck’s Store Museum, Bena, will welcome the community once again to its Christmas in Guinea celebration on Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Santa Claus is also scheduled… …
Holiday Open House (11/20/2024) - The Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society will have its annual Holiday Open House & Bake Sale on Dec. 8 from 1-3 p.m. Visit with Santa Claus, make holiday crafts and meet shelter… …
Tillage lights (11/20/2024) - The home of Tim and Alease Tillage on Glebe Road, Mathews, will once again radiate holiday joy year. Their lightshow can be viewed from Thanksgiving through Jan. 1 from 5-10… …Christmas Traditions (11/20/2024) - Goodman’s Antiques & Estate Jewelry, Gloucester Point, will hold its Christmas Traditions event on Dec. 7 from noon until 3 p.m. Donna Strother Deeks will be in attendance to sell… …
‘Make a Difference’ by shopping at RWRH this holiday season (11/20/2024) - The holiday shopping season is here and there is no better place to find meaningful gifts than at The Daffodil, Riverside Walter Reed Hospital’s gift shop. Proceeds from sales at… …
Bay Aging program completes 47 weatherization projects in 2023 (11/13/2024) - Members of Bay Aging’s Weatherization Team are hard at work across the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, making a difference in the lives of local residents by providing essential repairs… …
Ocean Products celebrates 60th anniversary (11/13/2024) - Robert C. “Bobby” Hutson designed a groundbreaking piece of equipment in 1963 for military helicopters engaged in war zones in Vietnam. The device has been used ever since for quickly… …
Ocean Products topic of upcoming museum talk (11/13/2024) - 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… …Gloucester planners recommend approval for Hayes rezoning (11/13/2024) - The Gloucester County Planning Commission met Thursday night in the colonial courthouse to hold public hearings on two separate rezoning cases, one of which the planners voted to recommend approval… …
Gloucester to use speed enforcement cameras at schools (11/13/2024) - A representative of a Maryland-based information technology company and Gloucester Sheriff Darrell Warren discussed options for adding fixed mounted radars in school zones in the county at last week’s meeting… …
187 take part in Catch the King community science event (11/13/2024) - One hundred and eighty-seven volunteers across coastal Virginia, including 18 on the Middle Peninsula, collected more than 22,800 GPS high-water marks with the Sea Level Rise apps to report the… …
Veterans Day program held at First Morning Star (11/13/2024) - A Veterans Day celebration was held on Monday morning at First Morning Star Baptist Church, Bena. The program began with the presentation of the colors by the Gloucester High School… …Public comment meeting next week for Machicomoco State Park (11/13/2024) - A public comment meeting for Machicomoco State Park, Hayes, will be held at 6 p.m. next Wednesday, Nov. 20. The meeting will be hybrid and those attending in person will… …
Museum visit (11/13/2024) - Members of the Central Village Homemakers recently toured the Mathews Museum on Main Street, Mathews. Museum tour guides were Bonnie Betz, Nancy Twigg, Tom Robinson and Ray Hunley. The group… …
Christmas Blessing Fund sets $20,000 goal; Tom Robinson named honorary chair (11/13/2024) - Solicitation letters for this year’s Mathews Ruritan Club Christmas Blessing Fund will be mailed out early next month for this year’s fund drive, according to chairman Charles H. “Sonny” Richardson,… …
Veterans Day dinner held at Post 83 (11/13/2024) - American Legion Post 83 Mathews held its annual Veterans Day Dinner and Awards Program on Monday, Nov. 11, at the post home on Route 198 in Mathews. After welcoming remarks… …Gwynn’s Island kicks off holiday season (11/13/2024) - Gwynn’s Island is kicking off the holiday season with two special events, a barbecue dinner at the civic league and a family Christmas event at the museum. The Gwynn’s Island… …
Puzzle champs (11/13/2024) - Joe Heard, Sophie Hesseling and Stephanie Conley, from left, placed first in the Gloucester County Public Library’s Jigsaw Puzzle Competition held last Thursday at the Main Street Center location. As… …
Ant’s GANG trophy (11/13/2024) - Will Bristow of Middlesex County was the winner of the Ant’s GANG trophy at Saturday’s Middle Peninsula Classic Cruisers’ Shop With A Cop car show, which was held at Main… …
Veterans Day speaker recalls dark day in USMC history (11/13/2024) - Forty-one years ago, Richard French of Gloucester was a young Navy sailor serving aboard the USS Iwo Jima stationed in the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon when one of… …
GUEST in need of winter host sites; welcomes new executive director (11/13/2024) - The Gloucester United Emergency Shelter Team (GUEST) is seeking churches or civic organizations with buildings to become overnight host sites for the local homeless population through the winter months. “It’s… …Boards go ahead with RFP for school space needs (11/13/2024) - Members of the Mathews County School Board and Board of Supervisors sat down Saturday morning for a joint work session to consider the long-term capital needs for the school division,… …
Early deadlines for Thanksgiving (11/13/2024) - The Gazette-Journal will print our Thanksgiving issue (Nov. 28) one day early, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, rather than the traditional Wednesday. This should allow complete distribution of the paper by… …