Letters to Santa (11/20/2024) - Children may send their Letters to Santa Claus to the Gazette-Journal for publication on Dec. 19. We ask that you send us your letters to Santa no later than the… …
Top Cop (11/20/2024) - Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigator Kyrstin Shackelford (center) has been named the Greater Hampton Roads Crime Line Regional Top Cop. She was selected out of 15 local Top Cops… …
Bay Aging initiative allows older adults to maintain independence (11/20/2024) - Bay Aging is unveiling a new community initiative in collaboration with USAging and Ring to help older adults maintain their independence and quality of life. USAging announced the national collaboration… …GUEST to hold annual board meeting Sunday (11/20/2024) - The Board of Directors of the Gloucester United Emergency Shelter Team (GUEST) will hold its annual board meeting at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Ware Episcopal Church Parish Hall, Route… …
Library cookie contest returns (11/20/2024) - “This is our second cookie contest.” Gloucester County Public Library, Main Street Center, is holding its second Yum Yum Cookie Baking Contest, following its success of last year. Nearly 50… …
Christmas parades (11/20/2024) - Gloucester County will hold its Christmas & Holiday Parade on Dec. 7 and Mathews County will hold its Christmas Parade, “Blue Crab Christmas,” on Dec. 14. Both will take place… …
Franktronics light show (11/20/2024) - Franktronics, the computer sales and service company located at 3618 George Washington Memorial Highway, Hayes, renews its annual Christmas Lighthouse in 2024. Frank Farmer said the show will be illuminated… …
Christmas in Guinea (11/20/2024) - Buck’s Store Museum, Bena, will welcome the community once again to its Christmas in Guinea celebration on Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Santa Claus is also scheduled… …
Holiday Open House (11/20/2024) - The Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society will have its annual Holiday Open House & Bake Sale on Dec. 8 from 1-3 p.m. Visit with Santa Claus, make holiday crafts and meet shelter… …Christmas Traditions (11/20/2024) - Goodman’s Antiques & Estate Jewelry, Gloucester Point, will hold its Christmas Traditions event on Dec. 7 from noon until 3 p.m. Donna Strother Deeks will be in attendance to sell… …
‘Make a Difference’ by shopping at RWRH this holiday season (11/20/2024) - The holiday shopping season is here and there is no better place to find meaningful gifts than at The Daffodil, Riverside Walter Reed Hospital’s gift shop. Proceeds from sales at… …
Bay Aging program completes 47 weatherization projects in 2023 (11/13/2024) - Members of Bay Aging’s Weatherization Team are hard at work across the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula, making a difference in the lives of local residents by providing essential repairs… …Gloucester planners recommend approval for Hayes rezoning (11/13/2024) - The Gloucester County Planning Commission met Thursday night in the colonial courthouse to hold public hearings on two separate rezoning cases, one of which the planners voted to recommend approval… …
Gloucester to use speed enforcement cameras at schools (11/13/2024) - A representative of a Maryland-based information technology company and Gloucester Sheriff Darrell Warren discussed options for adding fixed mounted radars in school zones in the county at last week’s meeting… …
187 take part in Catch the King community science event (11/13/2024) - One hundred and eighty-seven volunteers across coastal Virginia, including 18 on the Middle Peninsula, collected more than 22,800 GPS high-water marks with the Sea Level Rise apps to report the… …
Veterans Day program held at First Morning Star (11/13/2024) - A Veterans Day celebration was held on Monday morning at First Morning Star Baptist Church, Bena. The program began with the presentation of the colors by the Gloucester High School… …Public comment meeting next week for Machicomoco State Park (11/13/2024) - A public comment meeting for Machicomoco State Park, Hayes, will be held at 6 p.m. next Wednesday, Nov. 20. The meeting will be hybrid and those attending in person will… …
Puzzle champs (11/13/2024) - Joe Heard, Sophie Hesseling and Stephanie Conley, from left, placed first in the Gloucester County Public Library’s Jigsaw Puzzle Competition held last Thursday at the Main Street Center location. As… …
Ant’s GANG trophy (11/13/2024) - Will Bristow of Middlesex County was the winner of the Ant’s GANG trophy at Saturday’s Middle Peninsula Classic Cruisers’ Shop With A Cop car show, which was held at Main… …
Veterans Day speaker recalls dark day in USMC history (11/13/2024) - Forty-one years ago, Richard French of Gloucester was a young Navy sailor serving aboard the USS Iwo Jima stationed in the Mediterranean off the coast of Lebanon when one of… …
GUEST in need of winter host sites; welcomes new executive director (11/13/2024) - The Gloucester United Emergency Shelter Team (GUEST) is seeking churches or civic organizations with buildings to become overnight host sites for the local homeless population through the winter months. “It’s… …Early deadlines for Thanksgiving (11/13/2024) - The Gazette-Journal will print our Thanksgiving issue (Nov. 28) one day early, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, rather than the traditional Wednesday. This should allow complete distribution of the paper by… …
Early Thanksgiving (11/13/2024) - On Nov. 4, some members of Westville Christian Church (Mary Pope, Sue Henshaw and Charlene Moore) prepared an early Thanksgiving lunch for the members of Coast Guard Station-Milford Haven and… …Gloucester BOS to hold work session Tuesday (11/13/2024) - The Gloucester County Board of Supervisors will hold a work session at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the colonial courthouse. On the session agenda is an update from director of public… …
Treat bags (11/6/2024) - Members of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 75, Gloucester, recently got together to make cards and fill Halloween treat bags for the veterans in care facilities in Gloucester and Mathews. Participants… …