GHS graduation at CNU (6/4/2025) - Two decades ago, Gloucester High School held its first-ever graduation at the Freeman Center at Christopher Newport University in Newport News. At the 2005 ceremony, above, GHS counselor Robert Mompoint… …Shoes for sale, as low as 19 cents a pair (6/4/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, June 2, 1910from the Mathews Journal Never was such a sale in force in this County. 5,000 pairs shoes must go at a price. Some as low… …
Honor guard (5/28/2025) - Members of the American Legion Post 83 Honor Guard and Rifle Squad the 2010 Memorial Day service in Mathews with a gun salute and the playing of “Taps.” Squad members… …
Faces on the walls: Portraits honor community leaders (5/28/2025) - If you attend regular meetings held in the historic Mathews courthouse on Court Street, you may have wondered: who are all these faces staring down at me? The walls are… …Safe driving campaign underway in Gloucester (5/28/2025) - 100 YEARS AGOThursday, May 28, 1925from the Gloucester Gazette With a view to doing its part to decrease the growing number of automobile fatalities and accidents, The Gazette is launching… …
PTA officers (5/21/2025) - In May 1965, as the school year drew to a close, the Abingdon Elementary School PTA elected its officers for the next school year. From left are Mrs. Harry Lewis,… …Phone man buys a Ford (5/21/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 19, 1910from the Mathews Journal Mr. L.A. Drake, the Tidewater Telephone Company’s manager at Mathews, has recently purchased a fine Ford automobile. Miss Delle Powell returned… …
For the firehouse (5/14/2025) - The Northwest Mathews Community League, which was active in Cobbs Creek and Dutton areas in the late 1980s, presented the Cobbs Creek Fire Station an American flag at its February… …Community news, illness abates (5/14/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 12, 1910from the Mathews Journal Laban correspondent reports that we are very glad to hear of the probability of the public schools of this district being… …
House of Flowers (5/7/2025) - Ruthie Richardson, above, opened Ruthie’s House of Flowers in 1987 in Gloucester Court House in a shop that formerly housed Watkins Florist, located off the Court Circle and operated by… …Gloucester court day draws a Mathews crowd (5/7/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, May 5, 1910from the Mathews Journal Messrs. L.C. Garnett, J. Boyd Sears, J.M, Pugh, J.T. Christian and many other good Mathews people attended Gloucester court on Monday.… …
State champions (4/30/2025) - Mathews High School’s track team won the state championship in 1970. Members who took first-place awards included, seated from left, Linwood Blake and Charles Clark of the 880 relay and… …
Familiar scene in decades past (4/30/2025) - May Day was a popular and much-aniticpated event in local schools for most of the 20th century, dying around in the last few decades. The big day brought races, baseball… …News from Redart (4/30/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 28, 1910from the Mathews Journal There was no meeting at Asbury Chapel, Redart, Sunday afternoon on account of heavy rain. Mr. U.G. Dillehay, who spent the… …
Originals (4/23/2025) - Two out of three fire companies in our counties are planning to build new main stations. From top down are the originals of all three volunteer companies, Abingdon, Gloucester and… …Much for sale, retail, shells (4/23/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 21, 1910from the Mathews Journal For sale: Will sell Mercantile business, rent store house or sell place of 40 acres near North. Address XYZ, Journal Office,… …
Spring scene (4/16/2025) - Ellsworth German of James Store plowed a field at North End owned by Upshur Rainier in March 1981, followed by gulls looking for an easy meal of worms or grubs.… …
Solved! (4/16/2025) - Three informants had figured out this photo by the end of Thursday, when the paper came out asking for information. We thank Herbert Hudgins, Sue Greene and Nancy Layng for… …County board sets its levies (4/16/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 14, 1910from the Mathews Journal At their last meeting on April 8, the Mathews Board of Supervisors laid the levies for the year as follows: County… …
Model homes; then and now (4/16/2025) - Building a home from the ground up offers more agency at the cost of time and often a higher price tag than their catalogue counterparts. While everyone needs a home,… …
Daffodils in 1965 (4/9/2025) - The Gloucester Daffodil Show was held in early April 1965 at Gloucester High School. In the above photo, recognized by show chairman Elizabeth C. Brown of Zanoni, at left, are… …
Who knows? (4/9/2025) - We found a box of undated color slides showing a number of local commercial fishing scenes. Who can tell us what is happening in this photo, and who may know… …Keeping it lively at Blakes (4/9/2025) - 115 YEARS AGOThursday, April 7, 1910from the Mathews Journal Around Blakes, the young people of this place gave a very delightful entertainment at the Chapel Lodge, I.O.O.F., on last Tuesday… …
Scan-a-Graver (4/2/2025) - The Scan-a-Graver purchased in 1955 enabled the Gazette-Journal to prepare its own photographs for printing, rather than send them away. In those days long before computers and offset printing, the… …
The fleet is in (4/2/2025) - Fishing boats of all sizes congregate at Sandbank Wharf, New Point, in this aerial photograph taken in the early 1960s by Walter Becknell. Long a hub of commercial fishing, Sandbank… …