Remembering Captain Sally (11/26/2024) - Members of Captain Sally Tompkins United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter 2626 placed a wreath on her grave in memory of her birthday. Tompkins, a Confederate nurse and the first… …Supervisors hold six-hour closed meeting Friday (11/26/2024) - The Mathews County Board of Supervisors held a six-hour closed meeting Friday in the historic courthouse on Court Street. The special meeting convened at 10 a.m. and the board remained… …
Tillage lights (11/20/2024) - The home of Tim and Alease Tillage on Glebe Road, Mathews, will once again radiate holiday joy year. Their lightshow can be viewed from Thanksgiving through Jan. 1 from 5-10… …
Christmas parades (11/20/2024) - Gloucester County will hold its Christmas & Holiday Parade on Dec. 7 and Mathews County will hold its Christmas Parade, “Blue Crab Christmas,” on Dec. 14. Both will take place… …Community Events (11/20/2024) - Friday, Nov. 22 KID’S MOVIE NIGHT: The Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society will have Kid’s Movie Night on Friday, beginning at 5:30 p.m. “Garfield” will be shown. Reserve a seat by calling… …
Ho Ho Bingo to be held Dec. 10 in Mathews (11/20/2024) - Ho Ho Bingo, a day of fun and games for Mathews seniors, will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the Piankatank Ruritan Club,… …
Bay Aging initiative allows older adults to maintain independence (11/20/2024) - Bay Aging is unveiling a new community initiative in collaboration with USAging and Ring to help older adults maintain their independence and quality of life. USAging announced the national collaboration… …Letters to Santa (11/20/2024) - Children may send their Letters to Santa Claus to the Gazette-Journal for publication on Dec. 19. We ask that you send us your letters to Santa no later than the… …
Early deadlines for Thanksgiving (11/20/2024) - Next week is Thanksgiving, and we at the Gazette-Journal will print our upcoming issue one day early, on Tuesday, rather than the traditional Wednesday afternoon. This should allow for complete… …
Community Thanksgiving meals to be held (11/20/2024) - Community Thanksgiving meals will be held next Thursday in Gloucester and Mathews counties, with another Thanksgiving meal planned for this Sunday. The public is invited to each, free of charge.… …
Providence placed under conservation easement (11/20/2024) - Providence, a ca. 1800-1815 historic home on 125 acres in Cobbs Creek, has been placed under a conservation easement with the Virginia Outdoors Foundation. Owner Jim McKinnon of Cobbs Creek… …Planners discuss tiny homes (11/20/2024) - The Mathews County Planning Commission held a lengthy discussion about tiny homes at its Nov. 12 meeting in the historic courthouse. Bobby Andrade, the county’s new planning and zoning director,… …
Ocean Products topic of upcoming museum talk (11/20/2024) - As Ocean Products Research celebrates its 60th anniversary, Sawyer Hutson—the Mathews County company’s new president and grandson of company founder Robert C. “Bobby” Hutson—will be the guest speaker at a… …
Letters to Santa (11/20/2024) - The Mathews Museum (located at 200 Main Street), acting on behalf of Santa Claus, has installed a special mail box at its front door. Letters deposited from now to Christmas… …
Rotary project to rehab New Point observation deck proceeding (11/20/2024) - The Mathews Rotary Club is seeing a project it’s been working on for four years finally come to fruition—reconstruction of the over 200-foot-long walkway and observation deck at the New… …
96th birthday (11/13/2024) - Last week, the Mathews Active Lifestyle Center honored Adelle Bayton with party as she celebrated her 96th birthday. New participants ages 60 and older are welcome to join. The center… …Early deadlines for Thanksgiving (11/13/2024) - The Gazette-Journal will print our Thanksgiving issue (Nov. 28) one day early, on Tuesday, Nov. 26, rather than the traditional Wednesday. This should allow complete distribution of the paper by… …
Boards go ahead with RFP for school space needs (11/13/2024) - Members of the Mathews County School Board and Board of Supervisors sat down Saturday morning for a joint work session to consider the long-term capital needs for the school division,… …
Gwynn’s Island kicks off holiday season (11/13/2024) - Gwynn’s Island is kicking off the holiday season with two special events, a barbecue dinner at the civic league and a family Christmas event at the museum. The Gwynn’s Island… …
Veterans Day dinner held at Post 83 (11/13/2024) - American Legion Post 83 Mathews held its annual Veterans Day Dinner and Awards Program on Monday, Nov. 11, at the post home on Route 198 in Mathews. After welcoming remarks… …
Christmas Blessing Fund sets $20,000 goal; Tom Robinson named honorary chair (11/13/2024) - Solicitation letters for this year’s Mathews Ruritan Club Christmas Blessing Fund will be mailed out early next month for this year’s fund drive, according to chairman Charles H. “Sonny” Richardson,… …
Museum visit (11/13/2024) - Members of the Central Village Homemakers recently toured the Mathews Museum on Main Street, Mathews. Museum tour guides were Bonnie Betz, Nancy Twigg, Tom Robinson and Ray Hunley. The group… …187 take part in Catch the King community science event (11/13/2024) - One hundred and eighty-seven volunteers across coastal Virginia, including 18 on the Middle Peninsula, collected more than 22,800 GPS high-water marks with the Sea Level Rise apps to report the… …
Ocean Products topic of upcoming museum talk (11/13/2024) - As Ocean Products Research celebrates its 60th anniversary, Sawyer Hutson—the Mathews County company’s new president and grandson of company founder Robert C. “Bobby” Hutson—will be the guest speaker at a… …
Ocean Products celebrates 60th anniversary (11/13/2024) - Robert C. “Bobby” Hutson designed a groundbreaking piece of equipment in 1963 for military helicopters engaged in war zones in Vietnam. The device has been used ever since for quickly… …