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… …
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… …
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. …
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… …
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… …
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… …Public hearing on Mathews 2025-2026 budget to be held Jan. 28 (12/26/2024) - Public hearing on Mathews 2025-2026 budget to be held Jan. 28 The Mathews County School Board kicked off its 2025-2026 budget process with a special work session and the receiving… …
Early deadlines next week (12/26/2024) - With New Year’s Day falling on a Wednesday, the Gazette-Journal will have advanced deadlines once again for its Jan. 2 paper, with newspaper distribution on Thursday rather than Wednesday. Classified… …
Christmas feasting (12/26/2024) - Members and friends of American Legion Post 83 of Mathews carried out their Christmas morning tradition, which stretches back more than 30 years, of delivering home-cooked dinners of turkey, gravy,… …Offices close for New Year’s holiday (12/26/2024) - Many government offices in Gloucester and Mathews remained closed this week for the Christmas holiday, with closings next week for New Year’s, as well. All circuit and district courts in… …
Board tables pump-and-haul proposal (12/26/2024) - Following a public hearing last Thursday, the Mathews County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to table a proposal to establish a permanent pump-and-haul general permit for disposal of sewage “when… …
Santa visits local children (12/18/2024) - CHARLIE KOENIG / GAZETTE-JOURNAL CHARLIE KOENIG / GAZETTE-JOURNAL Following Saturday’s Mathews parade, Santa Claus stopped off at the Mathews Visitor and Information Center. Among those he met with, in photos… …Letters to Santa (12/18/2024) - Dear Santa, How are the reindeer? How are the elves? How are you? I have been very GOOD! this year. This year I would like: an engine that you build;… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …
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… …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… …
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… …