The Virginia Marine Resources Commission will consider amendments to restrictions on shellfish during a public hearing at noon Tuesday at VMRC headquarters in downtown Newport News.

Marvin Crane will be honored as grand marshal of the Guinea Jubilee this weekend.

Art Dubey, chair of the Mathews Market Days Committee, called this year’s festival, held Friday and Saturday on Main Street, the “most successful” yet.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, well-known civil rights advocate and president of the National Action Network, may have a reputation among some circles as a fiery speaker who stirs up trouble, but at Lebanon Baptist Church’s homecoming in Saluda on Sunday, his message was all about peace, loving others and honoring your roots.

Saturday’s Mathews Market Days Pet Parade attracted a number of dogs, as well as some more exotic creatures. Here, Merlin the Bearded Dragon is appropriately attired in a wizard costume for the parade. Holding Merlin is his owner, Reilly Price, 10, of Hartfield. Abigail, 7, and Ethan Hudgins, 5, of the Glebe, came to the parade with their favorite goat, Marshmallow. Photos by Charlie Koenig.

The Mathews County Planning Commission and the Mathews County Board of Supervisors will hold a joint public hearing on the draft Mathews Comprehensive Plan 2030 at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the historic courthouse on Court Street.

The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors and the Gloucester County School Board will discuss lump sum vs. categorical funding of the school system during a joint work session Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Gloucester Main Library Community Room.

The George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge will be closed to traffic two nights next week, unless the contractor can release traffic one or more times each night through the work zone.

Seven candidates, including two former Mathews County School Board members, have filed for the vacancy on the board created when Dr. Michael Richards stepped down at the end of August for health reasons.

The Cook Foundation’s annual street painting festival known as Chalk Fest will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday on Carriage Court in the Gloucester Village across the street from SunTrust Bank.

Two candidates for county supervisors’ seats in November 2011 announced they were going to run during the Gloucester County Republican Committee meeting last Thursday evening in the colonial courthouse.

Dozens of people who attended Mathews Market Days were a bit richer when they left there Saturday.

Gloucester County is establishing an Urban Development Area Steering Committee to work with county staff and consultants to oversee the planning process to designate and plan for an Urban Development Area (UDA) for the Gloucester Point area.

Diane M. Rebertus, Gloucester’s new director of library services, wants the library to become more of a “community place.”