Editor, Gazette-Journal:

Election Day is fast upon us. Watch your wallets, citizens of Mathews. Watch out for your children in our schools, citizens of Mathews.

Mike Rowe wants to put all of us drunken sailors to shame where spending money is concerned (at least when I was a drunken sailor I did not spend your money). He and Dee Russell want to build a $20-$30 million sewer pipeline to Gwynn’s Island to serve the Hole in the Wall Restaurant. Is this pipeline so that this corridor can become a new housing development?

Russell and Cook are all in for a new development at Routes 3 and 198. Your tax dollars at work to underwrite a multi-million dollar company in North Carolina.

Our school buildings are in disrepair and COVID has devastated our student population and left our teachers working in uncharted territory, and in such a climate Turner and Hodges thought it vitally important to remove a venerated name from one of our schools without a suitable replacement immediately a...