Amaco glazes, watercolors among upcoming Bay School classes (12/26/2024) - The Bay School Community Arts Center is offering a number of classes in January to help start off the new year with art. Amaco instructor Zoé Hall will teach a… …
Brass Quintet (12/26/2024) - The Williamsburg Symphony Brass Quintet performed a special holiday concert on Monday, Dec. 16, at Mathews Memorial Library. The well-attended concert was sponsored by the Friends of the Mathews Memorial… …
ROMCA officers (12/26/2024) - The Retired Officers of Mathews County Association (ROMCA) installed its new officers at their annual Christmas Dinner at the White Dog Bistro on Wednesday, Dec. 11. Outgoing president Pat Roane… …
Lions Club donation (12/26/2024) - Marie Walls of the Mathews Lions Club, at right, presents a $700 check to Mathews County Social Services Director Tiffany Gordon for the Mathews Christmas Store. …
Main Street beauty (12/26/2024) - Mathews Main Street glows in the beauty of the Christmas tree illuminated on Friday, Dec. 13, during a night that brought Santa Claus, entertainment, business specials, and late hours to… …
Raffle winner (12/26/2024) - Ray Hunley of Hallieford won the Mathews County Woman’s Club’s Pillsbury “Poppin’ Fresh Doughboy” raffle basket. Proceeds from the basket sales benefit various community projects, including a $1,000 annual scholarship… …Christmas Blessing Fund donations surpass $15,000 (12/26/2024) - After four weeks, the 2024 Mathews Ruritan Club Christmas Blessing Fund is well on the way toward its goal of $20,000, Honorary Chairperson Tom Robinson announced. Donations of $15,505.00 have… …
Bay Aging brings holiday joy to older residents (12/26/2024) - Bay Aging’s annual Santa for Seniors gift program brought holiday joy to over 70 low-income older adults across the Northern Neck and Middle Peninsula. This year’s initiative was made possible… …
Pollock to retire as Bay Transit director (12/26/2024) - Ken Pollock, Director of Bay Transit, the public transportation division of Bay Aging, has announced his retirement scheduled for mid-February 2025, after more than 20 years of service in public… …
Lighted boat parade (12/18/2024) - Hudgins Horn Harbor Marina held its second annual lighted boat parade on Saturday evening, with 13 boats participating. Neighbors of the marina decorated their docks before the parade and all… …
‘Above and beyond’ (12/18/2024) - Gwynn’s Island native Lynne Davenport, holding plaque at center, was recently recognized by the Gwynn’s Island Civic League for her long-standing and ongoing commitment to the Gwynn’s Island community and… …
Celebration of Lights (12/18/2024) - Throughout the year, Amy Ashberry of Mathews uses her two school buses—The Shoebox Mobiles—for collecting and transporting shoeboxes filled with gifts for children around the world through Operation Christmas Child.… …Mathews Rotary Chili Cook-Off to be held on Feb. 8 (12/18/2024) - The Mathews Rotary Club will hold its ninth annual Chili Cook-Off from 4:30-7 p.m. on the day before this year’s Super Bowl, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, at the Piankatank Ruritan… …
USCG Auxiliary Flotilla holds Change of Watch (12/18/2024) - United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla, 66, Mathews, held its 73rd annual Change of Watch ceremony on Dec. 10 at the Cole Building in Deltaville. Leadership was transferred from current… …Mathews board to meet today (12/18/2024) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors has two meetings on its slate for today, Thursday, Dec. 19, a special meeting for a closed session at 4 p.m. and the regular… …
First Christmas (12/18/2024) - Two-month-old Zoey Marie Torres won’t remember this first visit with Santa Claus, and she even slept through the encounter on Saturday afternoon at the Mathews Visitor and Information Center. For… …
71 take part in Mathews Christmas Parade (12/18/2024) - This year’s Mathews Christmas Parade, “Blue Crab Christmas,” received a total of 71 entries. Led by this year’s grand marshals Buz and Tamara Rollins, Saturday’s parade traveled from Thomas Hunter… …YMCA proposal dominates discussion (12/18/2024) - For the second month in a row, a proposal by the Mathews Family YMCA to offer a preschool/day care program for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds on school property dominated public… …
Offices close for Christmas (12/18/2024) - All circuit and district courts in Gloucester and Mathews will be closed Tuesday through Thursday, Dec. 24-26, in observance of the Christmas holiday. Administrative offices and libraries in both counties… …
Early deadlines for next two issues (12/18/2024) - With Christmas Day and New Year’s Day holidays both falling on a Wednesday, the Gazette-Journal will have advanced deadlines for the Dec. 26 and Jan. 2 papers, with newspaper distribution… …
Winter begins Saturday (12/18/2024) - Saturday is the shortest day of the year, the winter solstice, which begins at 4:21 a.m. From now until the summer solstice in June, each 24-hour period will have an… …
Dominion awards $32,500 in grants to local nonprofits (12/18/2024) - The Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation, which supports nonprofit causes that meet basic human needs, protect the environment, promote education and encourage community vitality, recently awarded $32,500 to four local nonprofit… …
Case dismissed against Mathews supervisor (12/18/2024) - A charge of disorderly conduct that was brought against Mathews County supervisor Mike Walls last year by planning commission chairman Billy Cook was dismissed on Monday, Dec. 9 in Mathews… …
MPNN BH offers trainings, parenting classes (12/18/2024) - The Prevention, Health and Wellness Division of Middle Peninsula-Northern Neck Behavioral Health offers a wide selection of trainings free of charge, most of which include free continuing education units or… …
Ringing in the season with poetry (12/18/2024) - Stacie Wiatt challenged her fourth grade students at Mathews Elementary School to create Christmas-themed poems using a variety of poetic techniques. The students wrote cinquain poems (five-line poem with a… …