Birthday at the Birthplace to be held Sept. 14 (8/28/2024) - Happy 173rd birthday, Dr. Walter Reed! The Fairfield Foundation is holding a special event on Saturday, Sept. 14, at Walter Reed Birthplace to celebrate the Gloucester County native best known… …
Applications due by Sept. 6 for free beehive lottery (8/28/2024) - Applications will be accepted through Friday, Sept. 6, for the state program that provides Virginia residents free equipment for assembling new beehives. Recipients are selected by lot at random from… …
Student Art Contest winners (8/28/2024) - On Saturday, Aug. 24, Barbara Priest presented the winners of the Guinea Jubilee Student Art Contest with a certificate of achievement and a gift bag with candy at Buck’s Store… …
Songbird Trail opens to the public (8/28/2024) - Machicomoco State Park, Hayes, opened its new trail to the public on Monday. The Songbird Trail was made in partnership with the Middle Peninsula Master Naturalists and is located at… …
Project 2025 talk (8/28/2024) - An audience of 58 attended the Gloucester County Democratic Committee’s presentation on Project 2025 on Saturday afternoon in the community room of Gloucester Library, Main Street Center. William & Mary… …Gloucester BOS to meet Tuesday (8/28/2024) - The Gloucester Board of Supervisors will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the T.C. Walker Educational Center Auditorium. On the agenda are two public hearings. One is for the revision… …
2 local residents appointed to state boards (8/21/2024) - Two Gloucester County residents were among those appointed to various state boards and administration positions, Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday. Christopher Sopko of Gloucester, operations manager for Sea Farms, Inc.,… …
Community Builders Award (8/21/2024) - On Friday, Aug. 16, Botetourt Masonic Lodge #7 A.F. & A.M. presented Arlene Armentor the Community Builders Award at Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic’s 14th annual Golf Tournament in recognition of… …
GMCC Golf Classic raises $40,000+ (8/21/2024) - The Gloucester Mathews Care Clinic held its 14th annual Golf Classic on Friday to raise funds for the care of uninsured and Medicaid patients in the community. More than 140… …Lunch and Learn webinar scheduled for Sept. 19 (8/21/2024) - Gloucester County Economic Development is co-sponsoring a free Lunch and Learn Series webinar next month to help home-based businesses with their tax prep questions. Cheryl Jackson, senior stakeholder with the… …
Widows group meets Saturday (8/21/2024) - The Widows of Gloucester and Mathews County, Virginia, will hold a “meet, greet and talk session” from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at Tabernacle of Faith Church, 7028 Woodsville Road,… …
Participants sought for upcoming Touch a Truck event (8/21/2024) - Participant registration is now open for Gloucester Parks, Recreation and Tourism’s upcoming Touch a Truck event, which will be held on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.… …
Point library to hold First Friday Fun (8/21/2024) - Gloucester County Public Library will hold First Friday Fun events at the Point Branch on Sept. 6, Oct. 4, Nov. 1 and Dec. 6 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. each session. Enjoy… …
Gloucester Training School, T.C. Walker School reunion to be held Sept. 21 (8/21/2024) - Former students of Gloucester Training School and Thomas C. Walker School through 1969 and their guests are invited to attend a reunion on Saturday, Sept. 21, from 5 to 10… …
GHS care closet (8/21/2024) - The congregation of Severn Church, Naxera, collected a cargo van full of items to help stock the Care Closet at Gloucester High School for the coming school year. This closet… …
B.C. United holds back to school event (8/21/2024) - B.C United Outreach, a local nonprofit organization, held its annual Back to School Community Block Party and Resource Fair on Saturday at the Abingdon Ruritan Club in Guinea. The event… …
GHS renovation ahead of schedule (8/21/2024) - Students starting school Monday at Gloucester High School can expect to enter a newly renovated ‘D’ hall, now called 300 hall, as renovation efforts for the school have now moved… …School Calendars 2024-2025 (8/21/2024) - School officials in Gloucester and Mathews counties have announced the following calendars for the upcoming school year. Gloucester Aug. 26, First day of schoolAug. 30 and Sept. 2, Labor Day… …
Gloucester, Mathews students head back to school Monday (8/21/2024) - Set those alarm clocks, fill up that water bottle and get ready to put your learning caps on, because students start the 2024-2025 academic year on Monday in Gloucester and… …
Gen. Lafayette in Gloucester (8/14/2024) - More than 100 people packed Gloucester’s colonial courthouse Sunday afternoon to hear actor/interpreter Mark Schneider of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as he enthralled the audience portraying Revolutionary War hero the… …
Eagle vs. Tropical Storm Debby (8/14/2024) - An eagle came to an osprey nest near the Timberneck Creek home of Larry and Meg Sherertz of Hayes on Thursday morning with his breakfast fish, soaking wet and looking… …
Cook Foundation celebrates 25th anniversary (8/14/2024) - The Cook Foundation, a Gloucester organization dedicated to supporting the arts, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month with a visual exhibit in the Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester, 6894… …
Gloucester site ‘living lab’ for coastal resilience (8/14/2024) - A bold vision for a thriving industry built around providing solutions for flooding and sea level rise was unveiled Monday during an event at the Captain Sinclair Recreation Center at… …
Bread for Life donation (8/14/2024) - Monique Raposa, executive director of the Bread for Life Community Pantry, at left, accepts a $1,000 donation presented by Abby Bowles, Social Development Committee chair of the Abingdon Ruritan Club.… …
DAR district meeting (8/14/2024) - Members of the Augustine Warner Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution took part in Saturday’s Virginia DAR District II meeting at Manakin Presbyterian Church in Midlothian. DAR state regent Laurie… …