Mathews Woman’s Club (4/22/2026) - Members of the Mathews County Woman’s Club, meeting on April 13, spent the day making decoupage oyster shells under the guidance of Virginia Coyle from the Bay School Community Arts… …
Birth announcement (4/22/2026) - Rebecca and James Hudgins of Mathews, announce the birth of a daughter on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, in Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News. She has been named Catrina Grace… …
Bird and wildlife survey (4/22/2026) - Members of the Middle Peninsula Bird Club and the Middle Peninsula Master Naturalist Chapter visited Brent and Becky’s Bulbs in Gloucester on April 16 to conduct a bird and wildlife… …Earth Day 2026 (4/22/2026) - Wednesday, April 22, 2026 was Earth Day. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, an early environmentalist, who with a few others, envisioned an annual “Earth Day” as a nationwide “teach-in” on… …
How does your garden grow? (4/22/2026) - We would like to know the answer. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Six black swallowtail butterflies spent the winter on Terri Malonson’s porch. Here is one. Azaleas, sent by… …
Daffodil Club members win awards (4/15/2026) - Gloucester Daffodil Club members brought home a number of awards from the annual Virginia Daffodil Society Show, held at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond over the weekend of March… …Irrigating during dry periods (4/15/2026) - “Does every plant require one inch of water each week?” asked a visitor to the Gloucester Master Gardeners’ booth at the Daffodil Festival. That is a good question, because care… …
Little Seed Library encourages support of local pollinators (4/15/2026) - Gloucester Bee City Committee and Middle Peninsula Master Naturalists have teamed up to encourage the support of local pollinators with the installation of a Little Seed Library in the Gloucester… …Glorious (4/15/2026) - Everything looks more beautiful in the fresh light of spring. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Linda Tjossem of Hayes photographed this robin with nest building materials. Yellow crowned night… …
Operation Christmas Child (4/8/2026) - Members of the Chesapeake Bay Circle of The King’s Daughters and Sons wrapped 45 boxes for Operation Christmas Child at their meeting on March 26. Boxes were taken to Amy… …Gloucester gets a Southern Living shoutout (4/8/2026) - Gloucester County and its Main Street are featured in an online posting from Southern Living magazine, dated March 26. The post states that “Spring transforms Gloucester, Virginia into a lively,… …
Pound Cake Contest returns to May Faire; new category (4/8/2026) - The annual Pound Cake Contest is part of May Faire again in 2026. The two-day May Faire festival, sponsored by the Mathews Museum, is on Saturday, May 2 and Sunday,… …
Springtime anxiety: What survived the winter? (4/8/2026) - Every year, the first warm days of spring cause me great anxiety. I don’t know what I am going to discover under the piles of leaves and dead foliage, and… …
Life in bloom (4/8/2026) - Pollinators, birds, bunnies, flowers, all popping into view, along with the pollen! Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. A northern gannet on the Piankatank River on April 1, probably on… …
Providence to be open for Historic House Tour on May 17 (4/1/2026) - The Mathews County Historical Society will hold a Historic House Tour and Garden Party from 2-5 p.m. on Sunday, May 17, at Providence, a stately Georgian mansion that overlooks the… …
The days of voles and roses (4/1/2026) - On March 8, a fellow Master Gardener, Beve Hermanson, posted a photo on Facebook of a large rose bush lying on its side in a wheelbarrow with its network of… …
Spring has sprung (4/1/2026) - And it’s in everything we see. Please send your photos to editor@gazettejournal.net. Sunrise in Remlik, submitted by Nina Gresham. One-year-old Emory Smith hands a daffodil to her grandmother, Kim Smith… …Course leads to ecotour guide certification (3/25/2026) - A seven-week course is offered for this region by the Northern Neck Planning District Commission to become a Virginia Certified Ecotour Guide. It was announced by Virginia is for Outdoor… …
Quilts at show (3/25/2026) - Members of Bay Quilters Guild of Mathews exhibited 15 quilts at the recent 2026 Mancuo Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Hampton. Their works mirrored the show’s theme, “Let Freedom Ring,” in… …
Animals, and imagination (3/25/2026) - Steve Angell of Gloucester sent a photo of a yearling fawn by his bird feeder. Could it be a…cat on Bethel Beach in Onemo? David McElroy took the photo. Bob… …
Colorful (3/25/2026) - Ester Hyman poses with the cat Bishop and a basket of daffodils from Richard Hicks’s “Aeolus Farm” on the North River. She is at St. James Anglican Church on Abingdon… …Heavenly scented littleleaf linden (3/25/2026) - On Saturday, I spent time outside in the garden. Birds were singing, daffodils were blooming, and some of the flowering shrubs were showing the tips of baby-green leaves. I watched… …
In bloom (3/25/2026) - Thank you for filling our space with daffodils this week, and for keeping this column alive for six years now; it’s the only good thing we know that came out… …
DAR meeting (3/18/2026) - Members of the Augustine Warner Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution heard a Biblical storytelling program at its March meeting on Saturday. Penelope Ferguson told the group the… …Registration open for Virginia Birding Classic (3/18/2026) - Registration has opened for the third annual Virginia Birding Classic, in which teams search Virginia’s public lands for as many bird species as possible in a 24-hour period. The statewide… …