Mathews General District Court will soon have offices open full-time in the Liberty Square complex in Mathews. The court shares a clerk with Middlesex County, and the clerk has long been located in Saluda.

Clerk Amy Pierce said that beginning on July 1, the Mathews office will open full-time, with two deputy clerks there from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on a daily basis, while Pierce will continue to divide her time between the Mathews and Middlesex offices.

Equipment in the Mathews office will be upgraded, said Pierce, including the addition of a public access computer, and all of the Mathews files, currently located in Saluda, will be moved to Mathews. There will be a new mailing address, as well.

The clerk has always been in Mathews on court day, which is held every other Monday, but it wasn’t until last year that a deputy clerk began spending a half day in the office every Thursday, as well. Then the pandemic hit and everything was shut down.

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