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Mathews Farmers’ Market opens for season Saturday (4/2/2025) - Fresh vegetables, homemade bread and bakery goods, eggs, meat, and a wealth of plants, flowers, and handmade crafts items will be available for purchase during opening day at the Mathews…
mathews tompkins cottage Tompkins Cottage Museum opens for season (4/2/2025) - The Tompkins Cottage Museum will open for the 2025 season on Saturday. The small c. 1820 building, located on Brickbat Road in downtown Mathews, is named for Christopher Tompkins, a…
mathews boat virginia Flotilla holds Boat Virginia class Saturday (4/2/2025) - Coast Guard Auxiliary Mathews Flotilla 66 held a Boat Virginia class on Saturday at the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad, Hudgins. Eleven students received their lifetime Boating Education Certificate satisfying the…
1a donks 50th 0 Li’l Ole Opry marks half century of top-notch entertainment (4/2/2025) - Virginia’s Li’l Ole Opry, also known as Donk’s Theater, is marking its 50th anniversary this year, looking back on five decades of entertainment by top-notch local country music performers and…
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…
Mathews Maritime Museum opens for season April 4-5 (3/26/2025) - The Mathews Maritime Museum, located at 482 Main Street, Mathews, will open for the season next week, starting on Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, and every Friday and…
mathews y new director Sarah Kirby Rae 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…
mathews gi museum opening for season 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…
mathews MLC 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…
mathews thomas james store 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…
Rosewell Photo (1) ‘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…
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…
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…
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…
Mathews Main Street holds March Madness fundraiser (3/19/2025) - March Madness is coming to Mathews for the remainder of March, sponsored with a touch of humor by the Mathews Main Street Committee. The giving opportunity consists of making contributions…
mathews continentals Continentals meet (3/19/2025) - Members of the Mathews Chapter - Continental Societies, Inc., attended the Continental Societies, Inc., 42nd Mid Atlantic Regional Meeting in Raleigh, N.C., on March 7 and 8. During the meeting,…
mathews lion Lion of the Year (3/19/2025) - Linda Gerhold Hodges was recognized as the Mathews Lions Club Lion of the Year. She was presented with the award on March 11. Hodges is shown here with Lion Travis…
Oyster gardening class set in Mathews (3/19/2025) - A class is planned in Mathews for people wanting to know the basics of oyster gardening. Dr. Richard Siciliano, a master oyster gardening representing Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association, will teach…
Board approves $867,329 in interim financing (3/19/2025) - Following a public hearing last Thursday, the Mathews County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pull funding from its $5 million interim financing VA SNAP account in order to increase…
1a mvfd banquet MVFD holds awards banquet (3/19/2025) - The Mathews Volunteer Fire Department held its annual awards banquet on Saturday at the Piankatank Ruritan Club in Hudgins. President Donnie Lewis kicked off the banquet by thanking all who…
Spring officially arrives today (3/19/2025) - After a long and very cold winter, spring is here at last. The moment of the vernal equinox is 5:01 a.m. today, Thursday, March 20. The sun will rise in…
Events March 13-20 (3/12/2025) - THURSDAY SCHOOL BOARD: The Gloucester County School Board will have a work session without public input at 6 o’clock tonight, Thursday, March 13, in the Thomas Calhoun Walker Education Center…
Animal Jam fundraiser set for April 6 (3/12/2025) - Southwind Pizza, 44 Church Street, Mathews, will hold its Animal Jam fundraiser from 1-5 p.m. Sunday, April 6. Those attending are asked to give $10 and a pet supply donation…

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