Editorial: School days return (8/20/2025) - Temperatures are dropping a little (although we’re not out of the woods yet as far as the oppressive summer heat is concerned), kids are back on the gridiron getting ready… …
Letter: G.I. park neither needed nor wanted (8/20/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal Converting the FEMA property on South Bay Haven Drive on Gwynn’s Island into a county park is neither needed nor wanted. Such a park would be an obtrusive… …
Letter: We the People (8/20/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The following letter I am writing as a private citizen, not as a school board member. Many of our founding fathers sat in the pews beside people like… …
Letter: Remembering Charley Johnson (8/20/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It’s that time of year again. Football is right around the corner. In 1969, a young engineer came to work at NASA Langley. Not too unusual, you say?… …
Letter: Schools like St. Margaret’s are vital (8/20/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I had the privilege of serving as the School Librarian at St. Margaret’s School in Tappahannock around the turn of this century. During my time there, I saw… …
Letter: Thank you for your support (8/20/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Concerts By The Bay would like to thank you for your continued support. Your past support, whether through purchasing an ad for our concert program, donation, or a… …
Letter: Remove Trump from office (8/20/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: We need to concentrate on one or two issues to remove Trump from office. He has committed, and is still committing, so many illegal and unconstitutional actions that… …
Editorial: Summer shorts (8/13/2025) - Summer fun Texans are having a lot of fun with congressional districts, as their legislature redraws the map to produce more Republican seats. Democratic-leaning states, including New York, Illinois and… …
Letter: The truth of the BBB (8/13/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Congressman Wittman is desperately trying to cover his voting record tracks by insisting in his constituent emails that his support for the Big Beautiful Bill was meant to… …
Letter: Are tariffs really good? (8/13/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I’m trying to understand why we are supposed to think that tariffs are a good thing for America. They sound tough till you actually look at what tariffs… …
Letter: Speak out! (8/13/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Trump supporters, are you ok with the deportation of thousands of Hispanic immigrants, many who are legally here and who were born here? Have you asked yourself what… …
Letter: A successful 36th season (8/13/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Arts at Abingdon held its final reception of the season in July to celebrate a successful 36th season of music and to thank our outgoing committee members. We… …
Letter: A bridge too far (8/13/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Several previous articles in this paper talked about working together, getting along, finding common ground. Considering today’s political landscape, this may be a bridge too far. It’s certainly… …
Editorial: At last (8/6/2025) - Commuters who make the daily trip back and forth across the York River will finally get a respite, as the tolls on the George P. Coleman Memorial Bridge will be… …
Letter: The bill is reckless (8/6/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Phillip Bazzani’s recent letter defending the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” (Readers Write, July 17) wasn’t just misleading—it relied on tired stereotypes and political spin to justify ripping healthcare… …
Letter: Avoiding constituents (8/6/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The July 24 issue of the Gazette-Journal reported a meeting with Congressman Rob Wittman and the Gloucester County Emergency Services team. Approximately 30 people saw this as an… …
Letter: Are tariffs a good thing? (8/6/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I’m trying to understand why we are supposed to think that tariffs are a good thing for America. They sound tough till you actually look at what tariffs… …
Letter: Electricity bills rising? Follow the money (8/6/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In April 2024, Donald Trump asked oil, gas and coal executives for a $1 billion campaign “donation.” By year’s end, fossil fuel industry tycoons delivered over $450 million to… …
Letter: Righteousness (8/6/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I stand up for righteousness. That is why I am banned from all government buildings in Gloucester, and Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon, is the head of… …
Editorial: Sic Semper Tyrannis (7/30/2025) - Who is that stern-faced, bare-breasted woman on the Seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia? She is Virtus, the goddess of virtue, and in her role as the principal figure on… …Editorial: Bring on the censors (7/30/2025) - It seems that Virginia’s flag, which features its seal front and center, is too racy for students in Texas. Late last year, according to Axios, the Lamar school district near… …
Letter: Mr. Wittman will not meet constituents (7/30/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: “Representative” Wittman refuses to meet with his constituents, so on Friday about two dozen of us met in a Silent Protest along Justice Drive in Gloucester Court House… …
Letter: Great job, VDOT (7/30/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In spite of my expectations regarding the expectations of big traffic problems with the two simultaneous bridge renovations and repairs at the Route 14 North End Bridge on… …
Letter: A regrettable saga (7/30/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I have been following the extremely regrettable saga of the Mathews Board of Supervisors v. Hole in the Wall Waterfront Grill in the Gazette-Journal for the past several… …
Letter: Thank you, Fairfield Foundation (7/30/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Since the merger of the Rosewell Foundation with the Fairfield Foundation, we have seen a tremendous improvement in the care of our Gloucester heritage. Fairfield has been able… …