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Football season is almost here

Gloucester and Mathews teams preparing.

Mathews property values running about 30 percent higher

Mathews County Commissioner of the Revenue Ray Hunley, seated, and Mike Colavecchio, assessor with Wampler and Eanes Appraisal Group, said last week that Mathews County’s reassessment will be completed in time for letters to go out to residents in November. Photo by Sherry Hamilton. Notification letters slated for November.

Farmers’ Market Week

Morgan Johnson, left, of Zephyr Farms and April Crutchfield of Portsmouth encourage Alyssa Crutchfield to pet a bunny that was for sale at Saturday’s Farmers’ Market in Mathews. Last week was Farmers’ Market Appreciation Week and Mathews celebrated with special activities, including a screening of the movie Mathews had special activities for Farmers’ Market Appreciation Week.

High-speed internet needed for business growth

The Mathews County Chamber of Commerce sponsored a business development forum Monday night at the historic courthouse. Among those taking part in the roundtable discussion were, from left, Supervisor O.J. Cole; Ibbie Hedrick, business liaison for Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling; Mathews County Administrator Steve Whiteway; David Hudgins, an executive from the Virginia Chamber of Commerce, and Dick Couch, vice chairman of the Mathews Industrial Development Authority. Photo by Bill Nachman. Mathews is at a disadvantage in recruiting new businesses.

Mathews Historical Society gets treasure trove of documents from J. Martin Diggs estate

Mathews County Historical Society archivist Reed Lawson, left, goes over some of the items in the J. Martin Diggs collection with Diggs’s daughter, Carole Anne Hindman. Photo by Sherry Hamilton. A community leader, Diggs had a lifelong passion for history.

Market Days to be held Sept. 10-11

It’s the 36th anniversary for the festival.

Mathews to take part in national health survey

The information gathered is used to help government officials make policy decisions.

Morgan disappointed Mathews not pursuing Put-In Creek project

The Virginia delegate has an idea for an alternative plan.

Waiting for breakfast

As the world sweltered on Saturday, a great blue heron on Put-In Creek in Mathews coolly surveyed the rising tide from its vantage point on a floating dock, waiting for a convenient breakfast to swim alongside. Photo by Elsa Cooke Verbyla. A great blue heron on Put-In Creek in Mathews waits for breakfast.

Civil War day camp

A Civil War-themed day camp was held Saturday at the Tompkins Cottage in Mathews Court House. Sponsored by the Mathews County Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee and the Mathews Historical Society, the four hour program included a scavenger hunt, hands-on activities, a horse and wagon ride around historic court green with Vernon Ashberry, and talks by Walter Scott Hunley and Bill Brockner. About a dozen children took part in the fun, including, from left, Jasmine Marcellus, Henry Barnett and Spencer Baird, led here by a period-clothed Marilyn Iglesisas, vice president of the Capt. Sally Tompkins Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Photo by Bill Nachman. A Civil War-themed day camp was held Saturday at the Tompkins Cottage in Mathews Court House.

Internet data pole goes up in Hallieford

The equipment will eventually enable Hallieford residents to have internet speeds of up to 40 megabytes per second.

Mathews planner maps out suggested priorities

The Mathews Planning Commission was presented with a list of suggested items for future consideration.

Tip of the iceberg? Mathews firefighters wonder if more was taken

Mathews Volunteer Fire Department members, from left, Malcomb Conway, Daniel Walker, Robert Calvin Hudgins, Robbie Hudgins, Fire Chief Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Lakin, Roland Wilson, Dave Skirvin, Jimmy Stewart, and Calvin Morgan, were satisfied with the verdict handed down against former treasurer Paul Reardon by Judge R. Bruce Long in Circuit Court Monday. Tomlinson said he hoped the conviction would erase any doubt Mathews residents might have over Reardon’s guilt. Photo by Sherry Hamilton. Mathews Fire Department volunteers were glad to see justice done Monday, when Judge R. Bruce Long found former treasurer Paul Reardon guilty of embezzling the department’s funds and ordered him sent to jail, but they wonder if $200,000 is just the tip of the iceberg.

Reardon pleads guilty to embezzlement

Defendant Paul Reardon, second from left, talks with his attorney, Bill Johnson, in Mathews Circuit Court Monday under the watchful eye of a Mathews County deputy. Photo by Sherry Hamilton. Paul Joseph Reardon, former treasurer of the Mathews Volunteer Fire Department, appeared before a packed courtroom in Mathews County on Monday and pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $200,000 over a two-year period from the organization he had served for 30 years.

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