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Letter: The joys of spring (4/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On a nice spring day, I enjoy having to go outside to plant a garden and then just sit at the patio table to relax. The gentle breeze…
editorial littering chart redo Where do you see the most litter? (4/24/2024) - In honor of Earth Day this past Monday, we asked our Facebook followers this week which areas in Gloucester and Mathews counties are the most littered. The top responses were…
Editorial: Give us a ‘V’ (4/17/2024) - This is National Volunteer Month in the United States. Volunteers rarely have the time to beat their own drums, as they stay so busy coaching, fundraising, picking up trash, and…
Editorial: A crazy season (4/17/2024) - Dear friends, Yes, Election Day 2024 is still a long time away. But as we gear up for what promises to be a crazy season, it’s as good a time…
Letter: Pay more attention to school safety (4/17/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: After many big events that shock the world—assassinations, rampage school shootings, 9/11, and so on—people say they can recall where they were when they heard the news. I…
Letter: Celebrating our nation’s 250th birthday (4/17/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: As chairman of the Mathews VA250 Committee, I would like to introduce our committee and to advise you of the exciting and developing plans for the 2026 celebration…
Letter: Anti-Zionism is not Anti-Semitism (4/17/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: President Joe Biden’s advisors are underestimating American voters and Democratic voters when it comes to Israel slaughtering Palestinians for 75 years. West Bank illegal settlers are openly killing…
Letter: Executive overreach (4/17/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: What gave President Biden the idea he could cancel the debt of millions of students? The threat to American democracy is not Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump. The…
editorial summer chart Summer fun (4/17/2024) - As the days get warmer and school is drawing to a close, now is the time to start planning for summer. We asked our Facebook followers what they were planning…
Editorial: Neighbors helping neighbors (4/10/2024) - Mutual aid. Those two words convey a sense of comfort and support. They are not theoretical. When it comes to emergencies, mutual aid is real. The volunteers in our fire…
Letter: A kind gesture (4/10/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I want to express a huge Thank You to the kind gentleman driving a large gray pickup truck on Aberdeen Creek Road. I was walking toward Hickory Fork…
Letter: A sincere ‘Thank You’ (4/10/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: As we approach our last concert of the 2023-2024 Concerts By The Bay series, I would like to take this time to send out my sincere “Thank You”…
Letter: Easter blessings (4/10/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: God blessed me at Easter, starting on Wednesday, March 27, with a mystery Easter angel leaving me an Easter basket filled with goodies, and a flyer reading: “You’ve…
Letter: Embracing change (4/10/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This is written in response to a recent Gazette-Journal letter to the editor (“Looking back,” March 7 Readers Write). In 2020, we did not have a secure border.…
Letter: Why I could never vote for a Democrat (4/10/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Can either political party move America forward? Here are some reasons why I could never vote for a Democrat. Immigration—Against immigration, you are labeled a racist by the…
editorial daffodil festival chart Daffodil Festival faves (4/10/2024) - We asked our Facebook fans this past week what people like most about the Gloucester Daffodil Festival. A total of 27.5 percent of our survey takers said they liked the…
Editorial: Festival season (4/3/2024) - This weekend brings the return of the Gloucester Daffodil Festival and with it, the promise of additional great things to come. From now until late fall, our community will host…
Letter: Another red herring (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: At the last Mathews Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Supervisor Mike Walls stated that I failed to acknowledge the 97 White folks who left the Island between 1910 and…
Letter: Rained out; support appreciated (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Gloucester County Public Schools Educational Foundation organizes an annual race to raise funds for two projects: the Teacher of the Year dinner held each May to honor…
Letter: Recognizing excellence (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I have the pleasure and honor to serve on the board for the Gloucester County Public Schools Educational Foundation. I am pleased to work with those whose goal…
Letter: Another successful year of Great Decisions (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On behalf of the Deltaville Great Decisions Board, we would like to thank the Gazette-Journal and editor Charlie Koenig for their support during the recently completed eight-week series…
Letter: What could go wrong? (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: With the world’s debt in excess of $300 trillion, and with a decline in global GDP, the western central banks have lost so much value that they are…
Mathews Market Days - 1 Favorite festivals (4/3/2024) - What’s your favorite local festival? We posed this question to our readers on our Facebook page last week. Mathews Market Days took first place with 33.3 percent of the vote…
Editorial: A tough decision (3/27/2024) - It was not an easy decision to make. But the Mathews County School Board made what it considered to be the best of a difficult situation, making the call to…
Letter: Thoughts on the 8th grade move (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In response to the article (Gazette-Journal, March 21, 2024) on the decision by Mathews County Public Schools to move the eighth grade to the high school: I know…

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