Harmful Waste Collection Day to be held April 19 (3/26/2025) - Gloucester County’s Household Harmful Waste Collection Day will be held April 19 at Hayes Convenience Center, Guinea Road, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. At this collection, Gloucester residents can… …
Friends of Machicomoco group completes trail project (3/26/2025) - The Friends of Machicomoco State Park announced the completion of an ambitious project to reclaim two miles of the park’s three-mile-long paved loop trail from more than a decade of… …VDOT survey looks at Route 17 south of C.H. (3/26/2025) - The public is invited to share its feedback on existing travel conditions on Route 17 between Short Lane and Featherbed Lane as part of a Virginia Department of Transportation study.… …
GHA program to examine Guinea in the 1960s (3/26/2025) - Guinea Heritage Association’s Fourth Fridays program continues this Friday, March 28, with a “Pictorial View of Guinea in the 1960s.” The program will be held at Buck’s Store Museum, 8850… …Park to host ‘Ghost Forest,’ ‘Pinch Pots’ programs (3/26/2025) - Machicomoco State Park, Hayes, has a couple of events planned for this weekend. From 6-7 p.m. Friday, the park will hold “Ghost Forest” at the interpretative area boardwalk. In this… …
New executive director named for local YMCAs (3/26/2025) - Sarah Rae has been named district executive director of the Mathews and Middlesex YMCAs, replacing Buzz Lambert, who is now vice president of operations for the YMCA of the Virginia… …
G.I. Museum opens April 4 for season (3/26/2025) - The Gwynn’s Island Museum will be opening at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 4, for the 2025 season, featuring family memorabilia and many artifacts representing the long history of the… …
MLC holds lecture on living shorelines (3/26/2025) - The Mathews Land Conservancy recently continued its series of quarterly environmentally focused educational lectures. February’s speaker was Mary-Margaret McKinney, Director of Coastal Restoration for Native Shorelines, a division of Davey… …
Grand re-opening of Thomas James Store to be held April 5 (3/26/2025) - The Thomas James Store, circa 1820, will open to the public on Saturday, April 5, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. It is one of the best-preserved early 19th-century mercantile… …
‘The Pages of Rosewell’ topic of Mathews Museum talk (3/26/2025) - Philip Page of Gloucester will discuss “The Pages of Rosewell” in a talk at 7 p.m. next Friday, April 4, at Mathews Museum. He is a descendant of the Page… …
NAACP holds Freedom Fund Banquet (3/26/2025) - The Gloucester Branch of the NAACP heard from a pair of speakers during its annual Freedom Fund Banquet and Awards, held on Saturday at the Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester.… …
Supporting archaeological work (3/26/2025) - Members of the Tidewater Virginia Historical Society Board recently presented a $1,000 donation to the Fairfield Foundation in support of its archaeological work at Gloucester’s historic Abingdon Church. Fairfield Foundation… …Fire station, schools, more addressed at budget work session (3/26/2025) - “We are not in a good place that I’d like to see us economically growing and thriving. We are worse off than we were three years ago.” Gloucester County Administrator… …
Jackie and Bob Beyea to serve as grand marshals for this year’s Daffodil Festival (3/26/2025) - Jackie and Robert “Bob” Beyea of King and Queen have been selected as this year’s grand marshals for the Gloucester Daffodil Festival Parade, which is scheduled to step off from… …Mathews employees’ salaries lag behind region, report says (3/26/2025) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors, meeting last Thursday, heard a report on an employee compensation and classification study conducted by Management Advisory Group of Woodbridge in late 2024 that… …
School board put on notice budget cuts ahead (3/26/2025) - “I don’t want to cut your budget … but I don’t see how we cannot cut this budget,” Mathews supervisor Janice Phillips said during a joint work session Friday morning… …
Mental Health Matters Awareness Walk to be held May 10 (3/26/2025) - Bacon Street Youth and Family Services has announced the inaugural Mental Health Matters Awareness Walk will be held on Saturday, May 10, at Riverside Walter Reed Hospital, Gloucester. This community… …
GVFRS training (3/26/2025) - Thirty members of Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service, Inc., trained on Monday, March 17 on the department’s new Paratech Rescue Struts. These will increase the department’s capabilities to stabilize… …March 5 storm damages Dutton home (3/19/2025) - The March 5 storm that destroyed the boathouse at Ginney Point Marina in Cobbs Creek and caused extensive damage to a private home off Short Lane and the Moton Center… …
Bena couple recalls a lifetime full of adventures (3/19/2025) - When Graham Blake ran out of his burning house in the middle of the night, he realized he had forgotten one important thing—his wife. It only took Graham a few… …Mathews supervisors to meet tonight (3/19/2025) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors will meet at 6 o’clock tonight, Thursday, March 20, in the historic courthouse on Court Street. According to the agenda, the meeting will kick… …
Weighted Angels benefit dinner to be held March 20 (3/19/2025) - The Thomas Hunter Middle School Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) students are sponsoring a charity dinner today, March 20, at the Howard-Dooley Cafe from 4-6:30 p.m. to… …
‘Guinea Dipping’ raises $10K for GRA (3/19/2025) - About 40 rowers, coaches, rowing alumni and community supporters hopped into the cold waters of the York River Saturday in support of the Gloucester Rowing Association’s “Guinea Dipping” event at… …
Top website (3/19/2025) - The Abingdon Ruritan Club’s website has been selected as the best in the Ruritan organization, which consists of about 900 clubs, club president Dean Marzocca announced at the March meeting.… …
Crab pot season (3/19/2025) - Linda Tjossem of Hayes, was buying seafood at a local marina when she spotted Casey Charnick, above, preparing his crab pots for the 2025 season, which began Monday. He was… …