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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …