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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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.… …
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… …
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… …