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Bay Aging offers activities for seniors, caregivers (7/8/2026) - Bay Aging has a number of activities for seniors and their caregivers in July. Virtual Support Groups Meeting on the first Monday of each month from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.,…
Fun in the Sun Market on Saturday in Yorktown (7/8/2026) - Yorktown Market Days’ annual Fun in the Sun Market will be held from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday. This special-themed market at Riverwalk Landing includes a variety of children’s…
point guinea program Guinea Heritage Association to hold program on history of buyboat Chesapeake (7/8/2026) - The Guinea Heritage Association will hold its next program beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 17, at Buck’s Store Museum, Bena. The public is invited; refreshments will be served.…
other news reedville museum July 18 event at Reedville Museum for waterman photographer (7/8/2026) - Nothing stops Mike Fontaine from getting the photograph he wants. Even if it involves hanging onto a rope secured in a workboat, then dangling precariously over the gunwale with arm…
Revolutionary Reads to be heldat Yorktown Library (7/8/2026) - Revolutionary Reads, a literary event held by Chesapeake Bay Writers featuring local authors Patti Procopi and Ruthann E. Gray Grabowski, will be held from 2-3 p.m. Saturday at the Yorktown…
WXGM hosts local author Patti Procopi on Monday (7/8/2026) - Local author Patti Procopi will discuss “Letters from Yorktown,” her children’s historical book set in 1781 as the American Revolution reaches its decisive moment, with Jay Hutchins at 8 a.m.…
arts flat iron chris jacobs At Flat Iron (7/8/2026) - Chris Jacobs will perform American roots music beginning at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Flat Iron Crossroads, 7709 Flat Iron Road, Gloucester. He is known for a soulful, elastic voice that…
Faerie Tea to be held Sunday (7/8/2026) - The Bay School Community Arts Center still has spaces available at the upcoming Faerie Tea, to be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday in the Art Speaks Gallery, 279 Main Street,…
mathews bracken ‘Death on G.I.’ author to speak next week (7/8/2026) - Bruce Bracken, author of a new mystery “Death on Gwynn’s Island,” will speak at the Mathews Museum, 200 Main Street, at 7 p.m. next Thursday, July 16. His talk will…
Confidential support group formed by NAMI (7/8/2026) - A confidential Family Support Group is being formed by the Mid-Tidewater Affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. A news release about the group said it will meet on…
events genealogy Karen Skelton Virtual genealogy program to be held Saturday (7/8/2026) - Genealogist Karen M. Skelton will speak at a virtual meeting of the Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical Society at 11 a.m. Saturday. Skelton will offer a presentation on how…
Events July 9-16 (7/8/2026) - THURSDAY BATTLE COMMEMORATION: A ceremony commemorating the Battle of Cricket Hill will be held at 10 o’clock today, Thursday, July 9, at Morningstar Marinas, 249 Mill Point Road, Hudgins. Presented…
Mythic Mathews event at library July 18 (7/8/2026) - Mythic Mathews, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 18, at Mathews Memorial Library, is the library’s inaugural Comic-Con event for the whole family.…
Travel softball tryouts to be held Saturday; July 26 (7/8/2026) - Tryouts will be held on Saturday in Saluda for the 10U and 12U teams for Peninsula Riptides Travel Softball for the upcoming fall season. They will be held from 10…
Live readings planned here (7/1/2026) - At least two live readings of the Declaration of Independence are planned this month in Gloucester County churches. Grace on Main, 6470 Main Street, continues a long July 4 tradition,…
Jam, jelly demonstration at Brent and Becky’s on July 8 (7/1/2026) - Milby Farms will demonstrate “Harvest and Preserve, from Bloom to Spoon” at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, at Brent and Becky’s Bulbs, Gloucester Making jams and jellies from fruits and…
Reading of Declaration to be held at Historic Christ Church in Weems (7/1/2026) - The Foundation for Historic Christ Church with the Cobbs Hall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Richard Henry Lee Chapter of the Sons of the American…
va250 crickets 1 cindy bocrie and sandy warhol ‘Crickets on a Hill’ to be presented for fourth time (7/1/2026) - Beginning tonight, the Mathews VA250 Committee and The Court House Players will present six performances of the beloved Judy Ward musical, “Crickets on a Hill.” Shows will be tonight and…
Fireworks displays Saturday, Sunday (7/1/2026) - To celebrate the United States’ 250th birthday, Yorktown and Mathews will be hosting firework shows. Yorktown will kick off the festivities on Saturday, July 4, while Mathews will keep the…
250th anniversary activities continue with July 4 weekend here (7/1/2026) - The much-anticipated July 4 weekend is here. Events across Gloucester and Mathews will join the nation in celebrating its 250th birthday. Here is a lineup of what has been planned.…
arts archival exhibit at library ‘Out of the Archives’ exhibit opens Monday at library (7/1/2026) - Works of art from the Mathews Archives will be on display at Mathews Memorial Library from July 6 through Aug. 31 in an exhibit titled “Out of the Archives: Art…
default Patriotic light show (7/1/2026) - Franktronics Inc. at 3618 George Washington Memorial Highway, Hayes, currently has a light show to celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday. The show includes “a short version of lights synchronized to…
Woodville School open this Saturday (7/1/2026) - The Woodville Rosenwald School is open to the public on the first Saturday of each month from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., including this Saturday, July 4. All visitors are…
Supervisors to hold 7-Eleven hearing Tuesday (7/1/2026) - The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a rezoning application that would allow the creation of a new 7-Eleven convenience store in Gloucester…
Mathews Red Cross blood drive to be held July 14 (7/1/2026) - The American Red Cross bloodmobile will return to Mathews County on Tuesday, July 14, with the blood drive to be held from 12:30-6 p.m. at the Piankatank Ruritan Club, Hudgins.…

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