The Mathews County Public School System is alive with celebration as the school division celebrates the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Mathews Elementary Mathews Elementary School will hold an America250-themed fine arts showcase today, Thursday, April 16, for third and fourth grade students and their families. Students are creating SAIL250-themed artwork that will be displayed in the hallways, and members of the Mathews VA250 committee will serve as judges. The event will also feature patriotic songs that the students will perform with music teacher Eileen Edmonds. Additionally, the fifth-grade students are putting together a SAIL250-themed digital art showcase which will be available May 22. This will be an online exhibition of SAIL250 artwork created by fifth-grade students with a soundtrack of fifth graders singing a maritime chanty, available for the public to view. In the school library with library media specialist Jenny Ewell, kindergarten and first-grade student...