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Fairfield Foundation hosts Timberneck Tuesdays (4/2/2025) - Fairfield Foundation, a local nonprofit, opens Timberneck house to free walk-in tours for Timberneck Tuesdays. The historic 1793 farmhouse is in the midst of restoration by volunteers and has been…
York River Garden Club to meet April 10 (4/2/2025) - The York River Garden Club will host a talk on Climate Change and the Garden by Doug Dwoyer, a NASA research and technology scientist, at 10 a.m. next Thursday, April…
gloucester clean day Clean Gloucester Day (4/2/2025) - The Exchange Club of Gloucester-Mathews spruced up the memorial garden at Abingdon Park during Clean Gloucester Day Saturday. This area of Gloucester is the group’s Adopt-A-Spot location. Volunteers also put…
Gloucester Main Street to hold Locals Night on Friday (4/2/2025) - Gloucester Main Street will host its first-ever Locals Night from 4-7 p.m. Friday, prior to the opening Saturday of the Main Street Pavilion and Beer Garden at the annual Gloucester…
Car show to be held April 12 (4/2/2025) - The Middle Peninsula Classic Cruisers, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, will hold its Daffodil Car Show from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 12 (the…
Gloucester approves 14% public utilities increase (4/2/2025) - The Gloucester Board of Supervisors voted 6-1 to approve a monthly 14 percent increase to water and sewer rates during Tuesday night’s public hearing held in the colonial courthouse. The…
1a girl scouts 1 alternative ‘Day by the Pond’ (4/2/2025) - The Girl Scouts of the Colonial Coast and the Blazing Blue Herons canoe team hosted the annual “Day by the Pond” event on Saturday at Camp Burke’s Mill Pond, Gloucester.…
VA250 Mobile Museum visits through Daffodil Festival weekend (4/2/2025) - Beginning today, the VA250 Mobile Museum will be stationed in Gloucester through Sunday, coinciding with the Daffodil Festival weekend. The mobile museum is aimed to enhance the Virginia American Revolution…
To our readers (4/2/2025) - A press breakdown in our production plant last week forced us to have many of the A sections printed elsewhere, and to remain with the remote printing until the problem…
Gloucester Daffodil Club members win awards at state show (4/2/2025) - Gloucester Daffodil Club members attended the Virginia Daffodil Society Show held at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond March 22-23.  Daffodils started blooming a little later this year, said a…
Gloucester Brewing Co. to hold ‘Pints for Parkinson’s’ (4/2/2025) - Gloucester Brewing Company will hold “Pints for Parkinson’s” event on Saturday, April 19—an all-day fundraiser to raise awareness and funds to support finding a cure for Parkinson’s. The brewery will…
woods cross rd Road safety improvement work begins at Woods Cross Roads (3/27/2025) - Work was scheduled to have begun on Monday on safety improvements at the intersection of Route 17 and Route 610 (Woods Cross Road/Davenport Road). The project, which has an expected…
Machicomoco to hold Earth Day celebration (3/26/2025) - April is full of recreational opportunities at Machicomoco State Park, Hayes. If you’re eager to connect with recognized tribal nations in Virginia, learn about local environmental stewardship, or would like…
gloucester social worker appreciation Social workers’ appreciation (3/26/2025) - Several members of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 75, Gloucester, stopped by the Gloucester Social Services office earlier this month to deliver a basket of goodies. March is Social Workers…
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…
point park trail 2 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.…
point fourth friday 1 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…
gloucester naacp freedom fund banquet 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.…
gloucester fairfield foundation 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…
1a daffodil grand marshals 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…
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…
record GVFRS training 1 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…

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