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mathews southern heritage Southern Heritage Day (10/26/2022) - Rob Hudgins and his daughter Kayleigh look over an exhibit of a model of the H.L. Hunley during Saturday’s Southern Heritage Day. The traveling exhibit of the Confederate attack submarine…
WMCL Fall Festival Saturday in Bohannon (10/26/2022) - The West Mathews Community League will hold its ninth annual Fall Festival from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday at the league building at 4905 East River Road, Bohannon. The festival spot…
Rotary club accepting grant requests, project proposals (10/26/2022) - The Mathews Rotary Club is accepting grant requests and proposals for a community service project. Each year, the club selects one new community service project for the fiscal year with…
Early voting now includes Saturday hours (10/26/2022) - As early in-person voting enters its second month in advance of the Nov. 8 general election, voters in Gloucester and Mathews now have the additional opportunity to cast their ballots…
Halloween fun in Gloucester, Mathews this weekend, Monday (10/26/2022) - Halloween will soon be here, and there’s plenty of fun (and candy) to be had for young boys and girls in the coming days. Two of the area’s biggest events…
Free resources available for mental health, substance abuse recovery (10/26/2022) - The Bay Rivers Telehealth Alliance has been awarded federal grant funds to create an outpatient and telehealth delivery system infrastructure to provide free resources for individuals seeking help and/or treatment…
lighthouse with union jack The Union Jack flying atop New Point Comfort (10/26/2022) - Most schoolchildren are familiar with the story of how the British burned and briefly occupied Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812. But how many knew that British troops conducted…
118 years ago, developers eyed New Point (10/26/2022) - Today a wild and wonderful spot, New Point Lighthouse stands far from terra firma, reinforced by several layers of stone riprap brought in at intervals during the past 50 years…
The sad, mysterious death of Harry Monsell; and other tales of lighthouse keepers (10/26/2022) - Long nights on the job, surviving vicious storms, short stays at home, entertaining the family aboard: except for being fixed in one place, the keeper at a lighthouse was very…
8 lighthouses once guarded our local waters (10/26/2022) - From the head of the York River near West Point, around New Point and up Chesapeake Bay to entrances of the Rappahannock River, at one time eight lighthouses guarded our…
smith, john Legendary moments in local history (10/26/2022) - Saved a life here. Born here. Slept here. Spoke here. Ran away from here. Wouldn’t give up her seat here. Wrote here? Walked the woods here Gloucester and Mathews, nestled…
edit lore and legacy diggs po in 1974 Old House Woods has fascinated ghost watchers for decades (10/26/2022) - What happens in Old House Woods? For decades, people have talked about the remote stand of pine trees near Haven Beach in Mathews. They told of headless specters, ships sailing…
L.B. Taylor: Master ghost storyteller (10/26/2022) - You can’t really talk about Virginia ghosts without mentioning L.B. Taylor Jr. The Williamsburg author penned 50 non-fiction books, including 25 on Virginia ghosts with titles such as “The Ghosts…
lore and legend nannie minter grave Tales from the graveyard (10/26/2022) - The sadness of saying farewell, unrelieved grief at the loss of children, tragedies that tore apart families, traditions that connected a people to their almost-lost identity: all of these can…
legends and lore edith keyes at foster school early 1900s She nearly died! (10/26/2022) - Pulled out of the East River by her father, the toddler Edith Keyes of Foster appeared to be dead. She had fallen into the soft mud and six-inch depth of…
lore and legend spirit branch 2 The ‘spirit’ of Spirit Branch Road (10/26/2022) - Spirit Branch Road on Gwynn’s Island brings spooky visions to mind. The road got the name not from being next to the island cemetery, but from what happened at the…
mathews vehicle donation 2 Lending a helping hand (10/19/2022) - Mathews County donated three vehicles to the Breathitt County Sheriff’s Office in Kentucky last week. Mathews supervisors’ chairman Paul Hudgins, above, said he saw a plea on Breathitt Sheriff John…
New broadband volunteer seeks to increase telehealth opportunities (10/19/2022) - Dr. Marshall Ruffin of Mathews has joined the volunteer efforts of the Mathews Broadband Advisory Board to increase opportunities for telehealth in the county. A board-certified general internist who retired…
mathews sally tompkins radio event On-the-air event (10/19/2022) - Under the leadership of Danny Wright, the Middle Peninsula Amateur Radio Club will again honor Mathews County’s own Capt. Sally Tompkins with the group’s annual on-the-air special event from 10…
mathews naacp forum 2 School board, House candidates take part in forum (10/19/2022) - With the November general election just three weeks away, Mathews County School Board candidates Lorraine Forrest and Mari Gibbs, and two of the three First Congressional District candidates, Democrat Herb…
Mathews deputies to take part in No Shave November (10/19/2022) - It’s that time of year again. The members of the Mathews County Sheriff’s Office will be putting their razors aside in a few weeks for the department’s second annual No…
Candidate forum Monday in Mathews (10/12/2022) - The Mathews Branch NAACP will hold a candidate forum from 7-8:30 p.m. Monday at Emmaus Baptist Church, 13974 John Clayton Memorial Highway, North. School board and Congressional candidates will participate.…
mathews womens monument Capt. Sally Tompkins statue left out of Voices in the Garden (10/12/2022) - In 2017, members of the Virginia Capitol Foundation came to Mathews County to ask local residents to donate funds to create a bronze statue of Captain Sally Tompkins to go…
mathews oyster riot Oyster Roast and BBQ Riot (10/12/2022) - Mathews Rotary Club held its fundraising Oyster Roast and BBQ Riot on Saturday at Williams Wharf. Beautiful weather, fat salty oysters from Mathews waters eaten raw or wood-fire roasted, BBQ…
Mathews joins ‘Operation Green Light for Veterans’ (10/12/2022) - Mathews County is joining the National Association of Counties and the National Association of County Veteran Service Officers this year in launching “Operation Green Light for Veterans,” an initiative designed…

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