VA250 Mobile Museum visits through Daffodil Festival weekend (4/2/2025) - Beginning today, the VA250 Mobile Museum will be stationed in Gloucester through Sunday, coinciding with the Daffodil Festival weekend. The mobile museum is aimed to enhance the Virginia American Revolution… …
Clean Gloucester Day (4/2/2025) - The Exchange Club of Gloucester-Mathews spruced up the memorial garden at Abingdon Park during Clean Gloucester Day Saturday. This area of Gloucester is the group’s Adopt-A-Spot location. Volunteers also put… …
Flotilla holds Boat Virginia class Saturday (4/2/2025) - Coast Guard Auxiliary Mathews Flotilla 66 held a Boat Virginia class on Saturday at the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad, Hudgins. Eleven students received their lifetime Boating Education Certificate satisfying the… …
Tompkins Cottage Museum opens for season (4/2/2025) - The Tompkins Cottage Museum will open for the 2025 season on Saturday. The small c. 1820 building, located on Brickbat Road in downtown Mathews, is named for Christopher Tompkins, a… …Mathews Farmers’ Market opens for season Saturday (4/2/2025) - Fresh vegetables, homemade bread and bakery goods, eggs, meat, and a wealth of plants, flowers, and handmade crafts items will be available for purchase during opening day at the Mathews… …
York River Garden Club to meet April 10 (4/2/2025) - The York River Garden Club will host a talk on Climate Change and the Garden by Doug Dwoyer, a NASA research and technology scientist, at 10 a.m. next Thursday, April… …
Fairfield Foundation hosts Timberneck Tuesdays (4/2/2025) - Fairfield Foundation, a local nonprofit, opens Timberneck house to free walk-in tours for Timberneck Tuesdays. The historic 1793 farmhouse is in the midst of restoration by volunteers and has been… …
VIMS announces April Discovery Lab, After Hours lectures (4/2/2025) - The Virginia Institute of Marine Science has announced its Discovery Lab and After Hours lecture topics and dates for April. The next Discovery Lab, “Plastic Oceans” will be held on… …
Clean Gloucester Day (4/2/2025) - This past weekend was Clean Gloucester Day and the Abingdon Ruritans were out in full force. The 200 pounds of trash was picked up on Guinea Road by the club’s… …
Pinewood Derby (4/2/2025) - The Historic Triangle District Cub Scouts held their annual Pinewood Derby races Saturday at the Abingdon Ruritan Club. Pinewood Derbies have been held by the Cub Scouts since 1953. Sixty… …
Hendrix completes Daffodil Festival poster collection (4/2/2025) - Every single Gloucester Daffodil Festival poster to ever exist is hanging in the home of Gloucester resident and D L Hendrix & Associates owner Doug Hendrix, a feat Hendrix recently… …Social Security program at library (4/2/2025) - Gloucester County Public Library, Main Street Center, will have a Social Security program on Thursday, April 17 at 6 p.m. Carlos Britos, financial advisor at Edward Jones, will present on… …
Gloucester Brewing Co. to hold ‘Pints for Parkinson’s’ (4/2/2025) - Gloucester Brewing Company will hold “Pints for Parkinson’s” event on Saturday, April 19—an all-day fundraiser to raise awareness and funds to support finding a cure for Parkinson’s. The brewery will… …
Gloucester residents sound off on budget, fire station, more (4/2/2025) - At the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors’ town hall meeting last Wednesday, March 26, residents spoke on their concerns about the proposed budget, the management of county growth, the cost… …
Mathews BOS votes to advertise 10¢ tax increase (4/2/2025) - Mathews supervisors, meeting last Wednesday in the historic courthouse, voted to advertise a real estate tax rate increase of 10 cents per $100 of assessed value, but emphasized their intent… …
Li’l Ole Opry opens anniversary season Saturday (4/2/2025) - Virginia’s “Lil Ole Opry” is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year with a lineup of shows featuring former Opry favorites. The first show, “All Star Opry,” will be held at… …
Events April 3-9 (4/2/2025) - THURSDAY BEE CITY COMMITTEE: The Gloucester County Bee City Committee will meet at 5 o’clock this evening, Thursday, April 3, in the Stewart Building program room, 6382 Main Street, Gloucester.… …
Road safety improvement work begins at Woods Cross Roads (3/27/2025) - Work was scheduled to have begun on Monday on safety improvements at the intersection of Route 17 and Route 610 (Woods Cross Road/Davenport Road). The project, which has an expected… …
GVFRS training (3/26/2025) - Thirty members of Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service, Inc., trained on Monday, March 17 on the department’s new Paratech Rescue Struts. These will increase the department’s capabilities to stabilize… …Mental Health Matters Awareness Walk to be held May 10 (3/26/2025) - Bacon Street Youth and Family Services has announced the inaugural Mental Health Matters Awareness Walk will be held on Saturday, May 10, at Riverside Walter Reed Hospital, Gloucester. This community… …
School board put on notice budget cuts ahead (3/26/2025) - “I don’t want to cut your budget … but I don’t see how we cannot cut this budget,” Mathews supervisor Janice Phillips said during a joint work session Friday morning… …
Mathews employees’ salaries lag behind region, report says (3/26/2025) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors, meeting last Thursday, heard a report on an employee compensation and classification study conducted by Management Advisory Group of Woodbridge in late 2024 that… …
Fire station, schools, more addressed at budget work session (3/26/2025) - “We are not in a good place that I’d like to see us economically growing and thriving. We are worse off than we were three years ago.” Gloucester County Administrator… …
Jackie and Bob Beyea to serve as grand marshals for this year’s Daffodil Festival (3/26/2025) - Jackie and Robert “Bob” Beyea of King and Queen have been selected as this year’s grand marshals for the Gloucester Daffodil Festival Parade, which is scheduled to step off from… …
Supporting archaeological work (3/26/2025) - Members of the Tidewater Virginia Historical Society Board recently presented a $1,000 donation to the Fairfield Foundation in support of its archaeological work at Gloucester’s historic Abingdon Church. Fairfield Foundation… …