Birdwatching (3/19/2025) - The Middle Peninsula Bird Club visited the Gloucester Country Club Golf Course on Tuesday, March 4, identifying 29 species of birds and counting 177 birds. Sightings included a flock of… …GHA hosts sock burning at Bena on Friday (3/19/2025) - The Guinea Heritage Association will be holding its first-ever Burning of the Socks event on Friday night at Buck’s Store Museum, Bena, and the GHA will also announce a new… …
Fary family is topic of genealogists’ meeting (3/19/2025) - The Gloucester Genealogical Society of Virginia will meet at 10 a.m. Monday at Buck’s Store Museum in Bena. Daniel V. Fary, local historian, will present a program on the Fary… …
Crab pot season (3/19/2025) - Linda Tjossem of Hayes, was buying seafood at a local marina when she spotted Casey Charnick, above, preparing his crab pots for the 2025 season, which began Monday. He was… …
Top website (3/19/2025) - The Abingdon Ruritan Club’s website has been selected as the best in the Ruritan organization, which consists of about 900 clubs, club president Dean Marzocca announced at the March meeting.… …
‘Guinea Dipping’ raises $10K for GRA (3/19/2025) - About 40 rowers, coaches, rowing alumni and community supporters hopped into the cold waters of the York River Saturday in support of the Gloucester Rowing Association’s “Guinea Dipping” event at… …
GVFD battles Meandering Lane house fire; trash truck fire (3/12/2025) - A fire on Meandering Lane in the Burkes Mill Pond subdivision last Thursday caused extensive fire and smoke damage to the kitchen and smoke damage throughout the home. Gloucester Volunteer… …Rape Aggression Defense class offered in Gloucester (3/12/2025) - A free two-day Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) class is being offered by the Mid-Tidewater affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness from 1–5:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, March… …
Storm causes power outages, building damage (3/12/2025) - A storm that raged through Virginia last Wednesday left 60,000 Dominion Virginia Power customers across the state without power—6,800 of those customers on the Middle Peninsula. In Gloucester, one house… …VDOT conducting Rt. 14 online STARS survey (3/12/2025) - The Virginia Department of Transportation is in the midst of an online survey, inviting the public to share their feedback on existing travel conditions along Route 14 between Route 17… …
Gloucester Institute to host Women’s History Month Tea (3/12/2025) - A Women’s History Month Tea will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 23, at the Moton Conference Center, 3201 Leadership Drive, Gloucester. This special event will honor the… …
Legionnaires to hold breakfast Sunday (3/12/2025) - The Friends of Dragon Run will hold a spring nature walk at 1 p.m. on Sunday, March 23. Registration can be conducted online at DragonRun.org. This is a free event… …
Plastic bag recycling (3/12/2025) - Gloucester Ruritan Club members Barbara and Paul Bauer delivered another 218.8 plastic bags recently to Food Lion to be recycled for the purchase of park benches for the county in… …
Abingdon Ruritans (3/12/2025) - Cathy Dale, Gloucester Circuit Court Clerk, who is also a member of the Abingdon Ruritan Club, was guest speaker at the club’s March 10 membership meeting. Dale is shown with… …
Widow group meets (3/12/2025) - The Widows of Gloucester and Mathews met recently at the Tabernacle of Faith Church, 7028 Woodville Road, Hayes, and Barbara Foster, above, spoke on “A Perfect Tool—Prayer,” Bible Bingo was… …
VIMS holds 27th annual Blue Crab Bowl (3/12/2025) - The 27th annual Blue Crab Bowl, Virginia’s regional program of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl, was hosted by the College of William & Mary’s Batten School and Virginia Institute of… …
VIMS study warns of deadly future marine heat waves (3/12/2025) - A study led by William & Mary’s Batten School and Virginia Institute of Marine Science is predicting estuaries along the East Coast of the United States will experience marine heat… …‘From Pearl Harbor to Calvary’ topic of Sunday talk (3/12/2025) - Philip Page will give a talk on “From Pearl Harbor to Calvary” at 5 p.m. Sunday at Petsworth Baptist Church, 2471 Hickory Fork Road, Gloucester. Page will tell the WWII… …
Book Author Luncheon to be held March 21 (3/12/2025) - Patti Procopi, author of “Please … tell me more” and other books will be the guest speaker at this year’s York River Circle of The King’s Daughters and Sons Book… …
B&G Club open house Tuesday (3/12/2025) - The Gloucester Unit of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Virginia Peninsula, Hayes Shopping Center, will hold an open house from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday. The open house is for… …
Events March 13-20 (3/12/2025) - THURSDAY SCHOOL BOARD: The Gloucester County School Board will have a work session without public input at 6 o’clock tonight, Thursday, March 13, in the Thomas Calhoun Walker Education Center… …
Derelict pot removal (3/6/2025) - Local watermen Ralph Bonniville and E.C. Hogge, from left, have been working with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science to remove derelict crab pots from the Chesapeake Bay as part… …Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday (3/6/2025) - Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday and will remain in effect until Nov. 2. Timepieces should be set ahead one hour (“spring forward”) upon retiring Saturday night. Residents… …
Board approves waterfront marina CUP request (3/6/2025) - A plan to convert a vacant seafood processing plant into a working waterfront marina in Gloucester won approval Tuesday night. Following a public hearing on the matter in the colonial… …
Rosewell holds a ‘Blessing of the Ground’ (3/6/2025) - Much has been written about the history of Rosewell Plantation, the 18th century Georgian mansion whose majestic ruins stand today overlooking the York River in Gloucester. But little if anything… …