Moth night combines info with fun (8/7/2019) - More than 30 Gloucester residents took part in an educational night out on Friday, July 26, at Beaverdam Park, learning all about moths with the newly-chartered Middle Peninsula Master Naturalist… …
Bird-watching party Tuesday in Port Haywood (7/31/2019) - The Middle Peninsula Bird Club will hold a bird-watching event at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the home of Louise Witherspoon, 724 Turpin Lane, Port Haywood. The property has waterfront on… …
Handmade with love (7/24/2019) - The River Country Quilt Guild recently donated a wagonful of quilts to the cancer treatment center at Riverside Walter Reed Hospital. From left are guild charity quilts chairman Mickey Sears,… …
Kokedama workshop at Brent and Becky’s (7/17/2019) - A kokedama workshop, explaining the craft of making containers of live moss to hold a plant’s root and soil, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 27 at… …
Deadline approaches for quilt show (7/17/2019) - The Quilts of River Country Show will be held Sept. 20-21 in and around Gloucester’s colonial court circle. Show hours are noon to 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20 and 10… …
Learn about moths in event on July 26 at Beaverdam Park (7/17/2019) - The Middle Peninsula Master Naturalist chapter will hold an evening dedicated to moths beginning at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 26 at the north entrance of Beaverdam Park off Fary’s Mill… …
Bird walk Tuesday at Brent and Becky’s (6/26/2019) - The Middle Peninsula Bird Club will guide participants in a bird walk at 7 a.m. Tuesday at Brent and Becky’s, 7900 Daffodil Lane, Ware Neck area. Participants are invited to… …
‘Food From the Heart’ returns July 24 (6/26/2019) - The “party barn” doors at White Hall Plantation in Zanoni will once again open Wednesday, July 24 to “Food From the Heart,” an event sponsored by Charles and Mari Ann… …
Fashion show (6/19/2019) - Styles for every occasion were displayed June 8 at a fashion show held at the Deltaville Maritime Museum as a benefit for the Mathews Ruritan Club. Four shops provided fashions… …
Master Naturalists to hold public information sessions (6/12/2019) - The newly chartered Middle Peninsula chapter of the Virginia Master Naturalists will hold a series of public information sessions this month in advance of the Master Naturalist Basic Training Class.… …
P.E.O. scholarship (6/12/2019) - P.E.O. Chapter CA recently presented a scholarship to help a student pursue her doctoral degree. Meeting in Mathews at the home of chapter member Jan Delf, local P.E.O. president Jackie… …
Brent and Becky’s offers plant classes (6/5/2019) - Two public classes are planned this month at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, Ware Neck. Okie Sidehamer of Newport News will give instruction in making kokedama—live moss that holds a plant—at… …
Fashion show Saturday at Deltaville Museum (6/5/2019) - Tickets are on sale at the Mathews County Visitor and Information Center for a fashion show to be held Saturday at the Deltaville Maritime Museum, sponsored by the Mathews Ruritan… …
Art raffle (6/5/2019) - A stained-glass heron window hanging by Angel Rowe is being raffled off as a fundraiser for the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters by the York River Circle of The… …
Plant walk Saturday in Williamsburg (6/5/2019) - Helen Hamilton of the John Clayton chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society will lead a plant walk from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday at College Landing Park in Williamsburg.… …
Bird walks to be held in Gloucester (5/29/2019) - Members of the Middle Peninsula Bird Club will visit three areas in lower Gloucester County on Tuesday, beginning at 8 a.m. The public is invited to join the bird walk.… …
Fashion show to benefit Ruritan charities (5/15/2019) - A fashion show to benefit community projects of the Mathews Ruritan Club will be held from 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 8 at the Deltaville Maritime Museum. Fashions will be… …
York River Circle (5/15/2019) - Diane Garrison of Newport News, vice president of the Mattaponi Healing Eagle Clinic, spoke of her Cherokee ancestry when growing up in Kansas and Oklahoma during the May 7 meeting… …
Countywide yard sale to be held June 1 (5/15/2019) - The annual Mathews County Community Yard Sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, at various sites around the county. Residents and visitors are… …
May Faire Arts & Crafts winners announced (5/8/2019) - Winners have been announced in the Arts & Crafts competition held as part of Saturday’s May Faire celebration in Mathews Court House. Cheryl Dale, chair, said the show had a… …
Entries sought for May Faire Arts & Crafts competition (5/1/2019) - Saturday’s Mathews May Faire will include an Arts & Crafts competition at the Mathews Historical Museum, 198 Main Street, Mathews. The competition is open to anyone with a Mathews County… …
Little Free Library (4/24/2019) - The 5 Rivers Woman’s Club recently placed a pair of free lending libraries in the county, part of the Little Free Library project. The lending libraries are boxes where people… …
1,800+ stems entered in Daffodil Show (4/17/2019) - This year’s Gloucester Daffodil Show on April 6-7 had more visitors and exhibitors than ever before, according to a release from the Daffodil Show Committee. Botetourt Elementary School’s gymnasium… …
Smith to speak at NARFE meeting (4/10/2019) - Gloucester Commonwealth’s Attorney Holly Smith will be the guest speaker at Tuesday’s meeting of Chapter 1757 of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees at Olivia’s in the Village, Gloucester.… …
Womanless Beauty Pageant to benefit Giving Garden Foundation (4/10/2019) - The sixth annual Womanless Beauty Pageant will be held from 7-11 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at the Moose Family Center off Route 17, south of Gloucester Court House. WXGM… …