Sunshine Acres Farm a therapeutic oasis for those with special needs (7/22/2026) - At Sunshine Acres Farm in Hayes, Lori Balch and her husband Tom are building a therapeutic oasis for children and adults with special needs. Rooted in her own family’s journey,… …
Abingdon Ruritans (7/22/2026) - The Abingdon Ruritan Club welcomed a new member at its July membership meeting. In top photo, from left, club vice president David Bowles and president Antonio Donald are shown with… …
Living shoreline company aims to restore shoreline and prevent future erosion (7/22/2026) - Jeff Corbin of Native Shorelines was astonished when he revisited a Gloucester home recently and saw the shoreline project he and co-worker Lucy Deigman installed there almost exactly a year… …Barn quilt workshop Saturday at library (7/22/2026) - Gloucester Library will hold a barn quilt workshop at 1 p.m. Saturday at Main Street Center. The program will focus on the history of barn quilts and participants will paint… …
Comix Con on Aug. 1; theme is Liberty (7/22/2026) - The Gloucester Main Library in Main Street Center will hold its annual Comix Con 2026 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 1. An announcement from the library said this… …
Intersection improvement to begin in Gloucester (7/22/2026) - Work to improve two busy intersections in Gloucester will begin Sunday, Aug. 2, the Virginia Department of Transportation has announced. In this project, existing directional crossovers at Route 17 and… …
‘We can do it’ (7/22/2026) - Tracie West, left, and Bridget Sibley, appropriately dressed, flank the statue of Rosie the Riveter on Main Street in Gloucester. They want to tell the world that they know about… …Woodville School site of historical society meeting Sunday (7/22/2026) - The Gloucester Historical Society will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Woodville Rosenwald School, 4310 S. George Washington Memorial Highway, Hayes. The program will include an update from the… …
College of William & Mary refreshes VIMS brand (7/22/2026) - After more than 85 years of advancing coastal and marine science, William and Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences is launching a… …When word of the Declaration of Independence reached Gloucester (7/22/2026) - To close out a month of celebrations of the nation’s 250th anniversary, Gloucester County on Saturday will commemorate the time in July 1776, when word of the Declaration of Independence… …
Reading the Declaration (7/22/2026) - As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, parishioners at Abingdon Episcopal Church marked the occasion on Sunday with a special reading of America’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence. The… …Treasures from the museum (7/22/2026) - As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary, communities across the country are reflecting on the people, places and stories that shaped American history. Here in Gloucester and Mathews, local museums… …
New book tells stories of local Revolutionary War participants (7/15/2026) - Mathews resident Martha McCartney, a research historian and writer, has compiled a resource book containing biographical information on over 700 local people who participated in the Revolutionary War. She worked… …
Quick thinking saves life of Gloucester woman (7/15/2026) - Mary Williams of Gloucester, has been dealing with asthma since high school, when she had a bout of bronchitis and pneumonia, but the respiratory illness never before impacted her the… …
Sail Beyond Cancer (7/15/2026) - Gloucester Ruritan Club president Meggie Bombard, at left, presented Kim Lawver, Executive Director of the nonprofit Sail Beyond Cancer, a club mug for her presentation at the club’s June meeting… …
Ruritans give $5,000 to GVFRS; $1,000 to GRA, Samaritans (7/15/2026) - The Abingdon Ruritan Club recently presented a $5,000 donation to Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad, continuing a long-standing partnership between the two community organizations. Don Sandridge, past president of… …
Minor coastal flooding (7/15/2026) - A couple of rainy days led to this minor coastal flooding on Butler Creek in lower Gloucester County on Sunday, with the heron fishing where there is usually no water.… …
Apartment fire causes injury, takes life of 2 pets (7/8/2026) - A fire on Sunday afternoon at Colonial Point Apartments in Gloucester Point left a 40-year-old man on life support, took the lives of two pets (a cat and a dog)… …
Celebrating independence (7/8/2026) - The Fairfield Foundation had a day of activities on Friday to commemorate the first known countywide celebration of Independence Day in Gloucester, held on July 6, 1858. That first celebration… …Gloucester supervisors approve two solar farm projects (7/8/2026) - The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors approved the siting agreements and conditional use permit applications for Fox Mill Solar and Daffodil Fields Solar, both located along Fary’s Mill Road, by… …
Gloucester Library to hold quilting programs (7/8/2026) - Gloucester County Public Library has announced three upcoming programs for July. The Point Branch will be holding a coffee, coloring, games and conversation program for adults 18 and older on… …
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.,… …
Nursing facility responds to AC concerns (7/8/2026) - Temperatures soaring over 100 degrees last weekend caused many people to try to find refuge from the unbearable heat, as well as raise concerns about places where they believed not… …
Grace on Main marks July 4 with ceremony Saturday (7/8/2026) - Gloucester’s Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church was once again the site for an annual reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, but the ceremony went well beyond reading the… …
Woodville Park donation (7/8/2026) - Abingdon Ruritan Club supports Woodville Park annually. Here, Matt Barber, Gloucester Director of Parks and Recreation, receives a $1,000 donation for the Hayes park from club member Julianna Woolley. …