Treasures from the museums (7/29/2026) - The Gazette-Journal continues its series this week focusing on local museums, as it highlights the preservation and education efforts of many Gloucester and Mathews organizations. The newspaper dropped in on… …
Moose Family Players to present ‘Best School Year Ever’ (7/29/2026) - “The Best School Year Ever,” a comedy by Barbara Robinson, will be presented at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, by the Moose Family Players at the… …Gloucester to celebrate 375th birthday on Sept. 5 (7/29/2026) - Planning is underway for Gloucester Day, Saturday, Sept. 5, a day celebrated by places around the world named Gloucester. Gloucester, Virginia will be the special honoree this year as the… …
GVFRS appreciation dinner Monday (7/29/2026) - The Piankatank Community League will host the semiannual meeting of the Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue Squad, Inc., and appreciation dinner on Monday evening. These dinners and meetings have been… …
Abingdon Ruritan Fall Seafood Festival to be held Oct. 21 (7/29/2026) - Preparations are underway for this year’s Abingdon Ruritan Club Fall Seafood Festival, which will be held from 3-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, on the festival grounds, located at 8784… …
Giving Garden (7/29/2026) - The Giving Garden Foundation is a nonprofit whose mission is to provide financial assistance to cancer patients living in Gloucester and Mathews. The Abingdon Ruritan Club supports this foundation in… …
Wonders of the Water (7/29/2026) - The Guinea Heritage Association held a special program on Saturday morning at Buck’s Store Museum in Bena, inviting children to learn about the local waterways and the area’s rich maritime… …
Union Food Pantry (7/29/2026) - The Abingdon Ruritan Club supports the Union Baptist Food Pantry in two ways: Each year, the club gives a monetary donation. And twice each year, club members donate food to… …Events July 30-Aug. 5 (7/29/2026) - THURSDAY DINE TO DONATE: The Gwynn’s Island Civic League Foundation will hold a Dine to Donate event from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. today, Thursday, July 30, at Mathews Grill… …
Gloucester PRT activities announced (7/29/2026) - Gloucester Parks, Recreation & Tourism is sponsoring a Glow Paint Class from 3-5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, at the Stewart Building, Youth ages 11-17 are invited to create a… …
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… …
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… …
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… …