Decision 2022: Election Day to be held Tuesday (11/2/2022) - Tuesday brings the 2022 General Election to voters of Gloucester and Mathews counties. The ballot this year in Gloucester County features just one race, that of Virginia’s First Congressional District… …
Offices close for Election Day (11/2/2022) - All courts, county offices, libraries, and DMV Customer Service Centers in Gloucester and Mathews will be closed on Tuesday, Nov. 8, for Election Day. Mathews County Schools will be closed… …
Drummond retires after more than 46 years with G-J (11/2/2022) - Nearly a half century ago, he helped guide this newspaper’s conversion from hot type to offset printing. Last week, after overseeing the printing of some 2,400 issues of the Gloucester-Mathews… …Family Farm Jam Saturday at CA&J Farm (11/2/2022) - CA&J Farm will have a Family Farm Jam from -5 p.m. Saturday at The Hive, its indoor music and education center, at 5629 East River Road, Foster. The farm will… …
MPPDC meeting date changed to Nov. 30 (11/2/2022) - The November meeting of the Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission, usually held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, has been moved to Wednesday, Nov. 30 because of the holidays,… …
Nov. 11 is deadline to apply for heating fuel assistance (11/2/2022) - The Virginia Department of Social Services is accepting applications for fuel assistance online and at all local departments of social services through Friday, Nov. 11. Applications may also be submitted… …
Veterans Day program to be held in Mathews (11/2/2022) - American Legion Post 83, Mathews, will hold its annual Veterans Day Dinner and Awards Program at 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 11, at the post headquarters on Route 198 in… …
Langhorne sworn in as commissioner of accounts (11/2/2022) - Attorney Richard Langhorne was sworn in Tuesday as the new commissioner of accounts for Mathews County. He replaces Dawne Alexander, who recently retired. A Norfolk native, Langhorne has practiced general… …Tempers flare over monument; hearing set for Nov. 15 (10/26/2022) - Tempers flared at Tuesday night’s Mathews County Board of Supervisors meeting, with supervisor Melissa Mason taking exception to her colleague Mike Walls’s request that she end a presentation she was… …
12 graduate from Boat Virginia class (10/26/2022) - Twelve students received their good-for-a-lifetime Boating Education Certificate in a U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Flotilla 66 Boat Virginia class held Saturday at the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad building in Hudgins.… …
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… …