Letter: The border (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The best estimates are somewhere around 300,000 illegal immigrants crossed our southern border in December 2024 alone. This is over nine times the population of our county of… …
Letter: Women leading the way (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal:“Since my child will be a black child, born in Mississippi, whether I am in jail or not he will be born in prison.”— Diane Nash (One month only… …
Letter: Happy Easter! (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Easter isn’t the celebration of the Easter bunny bringing baskets of goodies to all the good boys and girls along with hunting down colored eggs, even though that’s… …
Favorite flowers (3/27/2024) - We asked our Facebook friends about their favorite flower this past week. We had a plethora of responses, the most popular by far being daffodils, followed by sunflowers, tulips, daisies… …Editorial: Spring cleaning (3/20/2024) - The weather’s getting warmer. Days are longer. Daffodils are blooming. Birds are singing. Spring is in the air. While you’re getting back out in your yard or your garden after… …
Letter: Support superintendent (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It was learned at last week’s school board meeting that the board majority is going to develop standards for the new Superintendent of Gloucester Schools. That has not… …
Letter: Unalienable rights (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Gloucester County School Board chair avoided my Constitutional mandate, informing me I had no Constitutional right to be on the GCSB agenda. The purpose was to teach… …
Letter: Republican no more (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I was raised in Worthington, Ohio … a Lincoln-Republican town. It was part of the underground railway smuggling escaping slaves to Canada. We were shown the houses where… …
Letter: The Last Straw Syndrome (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Remember when we were appalled by innocent sea creatures with protruding straws from their nostrils? Subsequent rules prohibited straw usage for water glasses. In view of the global… …
Favorite spring sports (3/20/2024) - What’s your favorite spring sport? We posed this question last Thursday on our Facebook page. A total of 42.9 percent of our survey-takers said their favorite was softball, followed by… …Letter: Ensuring free and fair elections (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette Journal: I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the volunteers and staff of the Gloucester County Office of Elections and Voter Registration. These dedicated people have… …
Editorial: Grounded (3/13/2024) - The Virginia General Assembly missed an opportunity to help coastal counties such as Gloucester and Mathews. That is unfortunate.Delegate Keith Hodges, our man in Richmond, introduced legislation that grounded on… …
Editorial: New normal (3/13/2024) - Gazette-Journal headline, March 12, 2020: “Concerns grow as virus continues to spread.” Headline, March 19, 2020: “A New Normal,” describing how life would go on under shutdowns and mask orders.… …
Letter: Fully fund the firehouse; cut budget to manage it (3/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The March 7 issue of this paper carried the scathing remarks Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue chief J.D. Clements made to county supervisors during last week’s public hearing… …
Letter: Appreciates superintendent’s efforts (3/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Regarding the recent incidents of racial graffiti, slurs and threats in the Gloucester County Public Schools, the Gloucester County NAACP #7070 completely supports the actions and responses of… …
Letter: Green for a day (3/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I’m part Irish and look forward to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day every year on March 17. There’s an Irish saying that if you are caught not wearing green,… …
Home improvement projects (3/13/2024) - We asked our Facebook followers last week what kinds of home improvement project they will be tackling this spring. A whopping 40 percent told us they would be deep cleaning,… …Editorial: The politics of division (3/6/2024) - America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of… …
Editorial: Kinder and gentler (3/6/2024) - You need look no further than our “Pets on Parade” section in this week’s paper for an illustration of the angels living among us. Individuals and businesses throughout the community… …
Letter: Silence speaks volumes (3/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: There have been several incidents of racial graffiti, racial slurs, threatening messages and other acts of racism in various schools throughout Gloucester County. The efforts of Superintendent Vladu… …
Letter: I saw what you did (3/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I heard the siren—then saw the emergency lights as the ambulance was making its way to the intersection with its air horn blaring—the traffic light turned green and,… …
Letter: Addressing light pollution (3/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: As a child, recall looking up in awe at the star-filled dark sky dotted with the brilliance of twinkling stars and the creaminess of the Milky Way? Have… …
Letter: Beware of icons (3/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It troubles me to read letters that seem bent on duping your readers. Or worse, outsmarting wise passages of Scripture. Recently a letter (“Iconoclasts,” Feb. 22 Readers Write)… …
Letter: The future is bright (3/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On Friday night, I had the honor of attending the Thomas Hunter Middle School Talent Show. I did not attend as an audience member. I volunteered as the… …
Letter: The silent epidemic (3/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In the heart of our community, beneath the surface of everyday life, lies a growing crisis that threatens the very fabric of our families and neighborhoods. The fentanyl… …