Letter: Why not sell the restaurant? (4/5/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Last night (March 28), I attended the Mathews Board of Supervisors’ meeting to hear about the fate of the Hole in the Wall Restaurant located on Gwynn’s Island.… …
Letter: A sense of fatigue (4/5/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Five years ago, Dr. Mary Ellen O’Toole (a former FBI agent, she consulted on the Columbine High School shooting as well as the shooting at Red Lake, Minnesota,… …
Letter: Easter is a blessing to us (4/5/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Easter inspires our lives as it renews life that is seen everywhere we look: blooming flowers, leaves on trees, green grass, warm weather, longer days of sunshine, animals… …
Editorial: In full bloom (3/29/2023) - This weekend, we welcome back an old friend—the Gloucester Daffodil Festival. Many locals regard the first weekend in April, and the return of the Daffodil Festival, as the unofficial start… …
Letter: Class size does matter (3/29/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In the March 16 issue of the Gazette-Journal, Mathews County supervisor Dave Jones was quoted as saying “nobody’s proven to me that small class size makes a difference.”… …
Persistence: land, air, sea (3/22/2023) - The crack of a bat on a ball.The scream of an osprey overhead.The red mist around a budding maple. This is an essay about nothing in particular, but about some… …
Letter: Clarifying discrepancies (3/22/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In response to the article in the March 16 Gazette-Journal regarding the Mathews County budget work session, I would like to take the time to clarify a few… …
Letter: Youthful inspiration (3/22/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: March 12 at Newington Baptist Church was Youth Sunday, and church youth took over the service. The theme for the day was “Apathy.” Victoria King opened with the… …
Letter: Applaud elementary art teachers (3/22/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: As a member of Ware Episcopal Church, I have participated in all of the ArtWalks we have had for the elementary students in our county. The first one… …
Editorial: Three years (3/15/2023) - We all have our own memories of when Covid first took over our lives. For the editor of this newspaper, it was on the afternoon of Thursday, March 12, 2020.… …
Letter: Let him know (3/15/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In a prior letter to the editor, I took to task Gloucester School Board members Carlton Drew and Darren Post for their refusal to sign the School Board… …
Letter: Above and beyond the call of duty (3/15/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On March 25, we celebrate National Medal of Honor Day, which recognizes those who have performed “conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity” above and beyond the call of duty.… …
Letter: Heartwarming letter (3/15/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Thank you, Carol Manglos-Foster, for your heartwarming letter about the wonderful family of Ana and Hector and their successful Mathews Grill and Deli and Mi Casa Azteca restaurants… …
Letter: Where does that authority come from? (3/15/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This is in reference to the default of the Silicon Valley Bank. On Sunday afternoon, the Biden administration announced it would guarantee all deposits, even those exceeding $250,000.… …
Letter: The roots of killing (3/15/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal The roots of all killing of men, women and children is the government of men that are living in all nations under heaven. Ronald Paige knows that King… …
Editorial: Back to darkness (3/8/2023) - The law giveth. The law taketh away. Early risers suffer through dark, dark mornings in the winter. Not until Friday, Feb. 10, did the sun rise before 7 a.m. As… …
Letter: Gloucester deserves better (3/8/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It is up to parents to protect their children. As a parent, I agree completely that protecting our children is one of our top responsibilities. This basic expectation… …
Letter: Disagree without being disagreeable (3/8/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It used to be that anyone born and raised in the South, especially Virginia, was taught from a very young age that impeccable manners and high standards of… …
Letter: Lewis to step down from Virginia Senate (3/8/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: After much thought and consideration, I have decided not to seek reelection in the newly drawn Senate District 20. I did not come to this decision easily, but… …
Letter: Black History Month is over; Black history is never ending (3/8/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This year, 2023, marks the 100th anniversary of two incredibly significant events. One, the destruction of a town for African Americans and the other, the construction of a… …
Letter: A great restaurant and a touching story (3/8/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Sometimes you find a great restaurant, hear a touching story and just feel like telling someone: This is one of those stories. My name is Carol Manglos-Foster, and… …
Letter: What a girl (3/8/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This past week, family and friends from far and wide said goodbye to a true blue, much-loved Southern girl from Mathews. Mary Wade Smith showed all of us… …
Editorial: A year later (3/1/2023) - It’s been over a year now since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Early on the morning of Feb. 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech about the… …
Letter: Decisions not made behind closed doors (3/1/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In Michael Kuhns’ letter (“Let’s think before we act,” Feb. 16 Readers Write) referring to the Hole in the Wall situation, he wrote that “the Mathews Board of… …
Letter: It’s up to parents to protect our children (3/1/2023) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Some members of our Gloucester School Board should be ashamed and replaced for their decision to teach Kindergarten through 12th graders Woke and CRT. Of course, they adamantly… …