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Oyster Shoals Music Hall tickets on sale (2/21/2024) - Oyster Shoals Music Hall in downtown Warsaw announced that tickets are now on sale for a number of spring and summer concerts. The music kicks off on Friday, May 3,…
Mathews board revisits Hole in the Wall issue (2/21/2024) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors, meeting last Thursday, once again visited the issue of the Hole in the Wall Waterfront Grill on Gwynn’s Island. County attorney Andrea Erard announced…
4 p.m. state burn law in effect (2/21/2024) - Beginning last week and continuing through April 30, Virginians are prohibited from outdoor burning before 4 p.m. when the fire is within 300 feet of the woods or dry grass.…
Mathews board revisits Hole in the Wall issue (2/18/2024) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors, meeting last Thursday, once again visited the issue of the Hole in the Wall Waterfront Grill on Gwynn’s Island. County attorney Andrea Erard announced…
Survey underway to assess child care needs in Mathews County (2/14/2024) - Mathews County Against Poverty is an initiative of the Mathews Community Foundation along with the Mathews Resource Council and Mathews County Social Services. MCAP is organized into five committees—Affordable Housing,…
Property owners encouraged to find, remove invasive plant species (2/14/2024) - The week of Feb. 26-March 3 is National Invasive Species Awareness Week and the Northern Neck Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society is encouraging local private land owners to…
MCF welcomes three new board members (2/14/2024) - The Mathews Community Foundation Advisory Board recently welcomed three new board members. Stan Grice, Vivian Keasler and Tim Morgan will each serve three-year terms. “We are pleased to have Stan,…
S.A. Cosby to headline Black History Month event (2/14/2024) - The Mathews Branch of NAACP will hold its Black History Month Celebration at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Cobbs Creek Arts Center, 61 Cobbs Creek Lane. Featured…
Mathews Museum reopens Friday (2/14/2024) - The Mathews Historical Museum, located at 200 Main Street, will reopen Friday after renovations that began at Christmas. The museum will open at 5 p.m. for a reception, and at…
County conducting survey on website (2/14/2024) - Mathews County is currently conducting a brief survey about its website as part of a redesign. A link to the survey can be found on the main page of the…
mathews talk on JWC Fred Lyon to speak on John Warren Cooke (2/14/2024) - Fred Lyon of Port Haywood, will give a public presentation, “John Warren Cooke, A Publisher and Politician Responds to Brown v. Board of Education,” on Thursday, Feb. 22, at 7…
Verizon enters into contract to place equipment on Hudgins tower (2/14/2024) - The Mathews Broadband Advisory Board has secured a contract with Verizon to place cellular equipment on the county-owned tower at the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad building at Hudgins. The contract…
Mathews BOS to consider dissolving property line (2/14/2024) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors will hold its regular meeting at 6 o’clock today, Thursday, Feb. 15, preceded at 5:30 by a special training session on the State and…
Closings Monday for holiday (2/14/2024) - All post offices, courts, county offices, libraries, and DMV customer service centers in Gloucester and Mathews will be closed on Monday, Feb. 19, in honor of George Washington’s Birthday/President’s Day.…
Text-to-911 available locally in emergency situations (2/14/2024) - While calling 911 and speaking directly to a dispatcher is the best way to reach out in an emergency situation, there are times when that just isn’t possible. Both Gloucester…
Mathews BOS to hold special meeting (2/12/2024) - A special meeting of the Mathews County Board of Supervisors will be held at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, at the historic courthouse on Court Street. This will precede…
DMV, VSP remind drivers to make a game night game plan (2/7/2024) - The big game is right around the corner and the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles and Virginia State Police urge drivers to have a game plan to ensure a safe…
mathews market days needs help cut Market Days Committee issues a call for volunteers (2/7/2024) - Even with an early cancellation of events this past fall due to inclement weather, the Mathews Market Days Committee was able to raise almost $5,000 from its 2023 festival, donating…
mathews museum window Black History Month display in Mathews Museum; events planned (2/7/2024) - Photographs of black men and women who made history in Mathews County are hanging in the main window of the Mathews Historical Museum, 200 Main Street, with more photos hanging…
Blood drive (2/7/2024) - The American Red Cross Mathews community blood drive was held on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at the Piankatank Ruritan Club building in Hudgins. Sixty-nine units were collected; 70 potential donors attended,…
mathews piankatank ruritan officers Ruritan officers (2/7/2024) - The Piankatank Ruritan Club recently held its installation of officers’ ceremony. Shown at the ceremony, which was held at the club building in Hudgins, are, from left, Zone Governor Don…
mathews port fun In Mathews: A look at needs from 1978 (2/7/2024) - The 1970s seem to have spurred localities to take stock and to see what would be needed in the future. Much like the 1974 forecast of Gloucester County needs, Mathews…
Population up in Gloucester; Mathews declines (2/7/2024) - The population in Gloucester County continues to grow, while the numbers continue to decline in Mathews County. These statements are based on estimates of the counties’ populations on July 1,…
Baylands FCU takes part in Heart & Sole shoe drive (2/7/2024) - Baylands Family Credit Union has partnered with the Omicron Xi Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., for the second annual Heart & Sole shoe drive. Members of the…
Bay Aging available to present on Medicare fraud (2/7/2024) - Medicare fraud is big business for criminals, causing Medicare to lose billions of dollars each year to fraud, errors and abuse. Your club could play a vital role in fighting…

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