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  • A dozen gather for MRA Christmas Eve Row

    Twelve rowers, alumni and parents gathered at Williams Wharf at 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24, to participate in the 31st annual Mobjack Rowing Association…

    Melany Slaughter December 30, 2025
  • Operation Christmas Child

    Volunteers in Mathews packed 7,152 shoebox gifts this year to be sent to children around the world through Operation Christmas Child, a project of Samaritan’s…

    Melany Slaughter December 30, 2025
  • Tradition

    Members of American Legion Post 83 at Hudgins followed the tradition of decades on Christmas Day, purchasing festive meals of turkey and all the trimmings…

    Melany Slaughter December 30, 2025

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1a bird count Christmas Bird Counts underway (12/30/2025) - The Middle Peninsula Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday at locations in Gloucester, Middlesex and King and Queen counties. The species count for Sector 7 (from Ark Park to Woods Cross Roads, west of Route 17) was 40 species and 573 individual birds counted; 8.5 hours of counting, complier Susan Crockett said on Monday. She added that she won’t have a species and number count for the entire 15-mile diameter circle until… …
mathews floor guy dave arthur paralyzed 1 Stewart’s ‘Floor Guy’ disabled after major cardiac event
point fire on christmas day 1 Christmas morning fire destroys Jenkins neck home
both Remembering Wyatt Wolffe’s sister, Bertha
Main Street (c. 1910) Wyatt Wolffe: remembering an early Mathews entrepreneur

School News

schools peasley trip State Capitol trip
schools racquets for reading Racquets for Reading
H.S. seniors invited to enter STEAM-H essay contest
schools thms band 1 THMS Seahawk Band

Business News

business wild daisy books 1 Wild Daisy Books to open Jan. 10 in West Point
business sunset nail bar Sunset Nail Bar
Mathews Women’s Giving Circle awards $55,000 in 2025
neighbors corbin hall farm Corbin Hall Farm receives Clean Water Farm Award

Sports News

GHS, MHS compete for National Guard Cup
sports christmas eve row 2 A dozen gather for MRA Christmas Eve Row
MHS wrestlers to host invitational
Cerny reels inanother citation fish

Food

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rgb cookie contest winners (2) History in the Baking: Gloucester Museum of History holds its first cookie contest
rgb food cut chocolate adult Learning to make candies from a pro
food kayla rgb Come visit Quiet Pine Farm in Peary

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