Local News
A 19-year-old Gloucester man drowned last week after he disappeared while swimming near Oregon Inlet campground, on North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
A distraught man took his own life early last Thursday morning, after starting a fire in his wife’s house on New Point Comfort Highway, south of the Port Haywood Post Office
The winning 2010 Mathews Market Days poster will be unveiled during a reception at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Mathews Memorial Library.
UPDATE: This week’s Gazette-Journal originally contained an article about planned closures of the Coleman Bridge next week. The closure has since been canceled and rescheduled for Sept. 20 and 21, according to VDOT public information officer Nora Chivers.
After over two years of diligent work on behalf of county staff and pages of input from Mathews citizens, the county’s updated Comprehensive Plan is ready to go before public hearing and the county’s board of supervisors.
A Gloucester County Board of Supervisors member is in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings, according to documents filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Virginia.
Mosquito counts this year have been so low that county crews only sprayed one night during the entire month of July.
A two-story home on Old Garden Creek Road in Mathews was destroyed in a fire late Monday afternoon.
The Department of Historic Resources held a public information hearing Tuesday to receive comments on the nomination of a portion of Gloucester’s Main Street for inclusion on national and historic registers.
Phragmites is running rampant in Mathews County, and the county’s master gardeners want residents to help put a stop to the invasion.
