Snowy days (1/22/2020) - Two snowstorms of the past cast their beauty over the area. At left, a long-idle workboat on Timberneck Creek in Gloucester is further iced in by a storm in the… …Literary society is thriving at Cardinal (1/15/2020) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Jan. 20, 1910 from the Mathews Journal The annual election of officers of the Cardinal Athenaeum took place Saturday, Jan. 15. The following officers were elected:… …
News from Susan: marriages and deaths (1/2/2020) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 6, 1910 from the Mathews Journal Susan: Cupid, who it seems has made many captures during the summer, is now turning them over to Hymen,… …
Bay Aging partners with Home Instead make holidays special for area seniors (12/26/2019) - Bay Aging partnered with Home Instead Senior Care as it did last year, to provide 142 seniors across the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula with gifts this holiday season. With… …
Time to register your automobile: new law takes effect in 1920 (12/26/2019) - 100 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 25, 1919 from the Gloucester Gazette To Whom This May Concern: The new Automobile Law of Virginia requires owners of Cars to register their titles… …
A new doctor is practicing medicine at Mobjack (12/18/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 16, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Dr. T.B. Henderson of Wakefield has located at Mobjack and will take up the practice of his profession at… …
Fitness classes for seniors begin in January (12/11/2019) - It’s time to make your New Year’s Resolutions. The next six-week session of Gentle Yoga (designed for those aged 55 and older) will begin on Jan. 2 at Gloucester’s Botetourt… …
Wells are going dry during a very warm fall (12/11/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 9, 1909 from the Mathews Journal We are having the warmest and driest fall that has been known for a long time if ever. Some… …
Senior exercise programs offered by Gloucester PRT (12/4/2019) - Gloucester Parks, Recreation and Tourism has several athletic programs geared toward men and women ages 55 and above. Chair Yoga is currently held at 11 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays… …
A lady’s mare, farm horse for sale, and lots of firewood (12/4/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Dec. 2, 1909 from the Mathews Journal For sale: A lady’s riding and driving mare, also fine road and farm horse, neither afraid of automobiles. —Dr.… …
School parade (11/26/2019) - Gloucester County schools staged a parade down Main Street in November 1934. Shown above are some of the 1,500 marching pupils and teachers of Achilles, Botetourt, Hayes, Martin’s, Naxera, Shelly,… …
Deer me! (11/26/2019) - Vashti Wilcher, owner of Vashti’s Jewelry and Gifts in Edgehill Shopping Center, Gloucester, holds up the only item in her front window left undamaged after a doe crashed into the… …
High school fundraising slackens (11/26/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 25, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Apparently, the committee appointed to solicit funds for the new High School has relaxed efforts to a great extent.… …
Remainder of poll tax may be awarded to schools (11/20/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 18, 1909 from the Mathews Journal At the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors that portion of the poll tax which is returned from… …
Cardinal boasts a new log library (11/13/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 11, 1909 from the Mathews Journal A very interesting musical and literary entertainment will be given at the Cardinal Athenaeum by Mr. C.H. Rowe, of… …
Cobbs Creek high school building plans are underway (11/6/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Nov. 4, 1909 from the Mathews Journal The building committee of the Cobbs Creek high school met at Cobbs Creek and agreed on a plan for… …
Triad Health Fair (10/30/2019) - Walmart pharmacist Oleg Bandurco prepares Janice Higdon for her flu shot. Higdon was one of 25 of the 70 senior men and women attending the Oct. 22 Mathews Triad Fall… …
Classified ads from Gloucester (10/30/2019) - 100 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 30, 1919 from the Gloucester Gazette Lost: Female hound, black with white breast. Finder please notify Floyd Walker, Sassafras. Lost: An old English history, between… …
Please leave your automobiles at home when you come to the fair (10/23/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 21, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Owing to the introduction of automobiles in our county which has taken place so lately as to prevent the… …
New fall goods are in stock in Mathews (10/16/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 14, 1909 from the Mathews Journal News from Marchant’s Dept. Store is that we have received all of our millinery stock and it is really… …
A new owner at Brighton (10/9/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Oct. 7, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Mr. Rosser Diggs has just completed a very nice wharf and boat house at “Brighton” for Mr. H. Hollerith,… …
Report on a prosperous grocer and insurance gent (10/2/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 30, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Mr. S. P. James is writing insurance to beat the band but at the same time is whooping up… …
Parsonage fund to benefit from ladies’ play (9/25/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 23, 1909 from the Mathews Journal North: The play, “Six Cups of Chocolate,” a piece of feminine gossip in one act, will be given for… …
Walker to carry on Mobjack business alone (9/18/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 16, 1909 from the Mathews Journal Notice of Dissolution of Partnership: The business heretofore conducted at Mobjack, under the firm name and style of Walker… …
Women bolster a meeting on local education (9/11/2019) - 110 YEARS AGO Thursday, Sept. 9, 1909 from the Mathews Journal We were sorry to see so few men attend the educational meeting at the Court House on Aug. 31.… …