Letter: Heart to heart (11/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: My heart sees the damage we can inflict on one another through words, actions, and assumptions, but I cannot know the depth of your suffering and whether or… …
Editorial: Please tell us (11/13/2024) - Your requests of the new administration The White House and Congress have familiar faces and new faces coming into office. This nation has been wracked by a divisive election. It’s… …
When do you start decorating? (11/13/2024) - This week on Facebook, we asked our readers when they start decorating for the holiday season. A total of 38.1 percent of our respondents said that they do not decorate… …Letter: The marker (11/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: At the last Mathews Board of Supervisors’ meeting, a resolution was introduced and passed by a 3-2 vote. This resolution requested more information on the authenticity of the… …
Letter: Come grow with us (11/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Thanks, Mathews. Last year I, reluctantly, accepted the presidency of the Mathews Historical Museum, a small, self-described “one-horse” museum on Main Street, largely overlooked and ignored by most… …
Letter: Landslide victory (11/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Yes, America! There is a God! We defeated evil and looked the devil in the eye. Our prayers were answered and the Lord sent us “Trump.” All is… …
Letter: The next four years (11/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Thank you, God, for watching over this great nation and the common-sense American people who voted President Donald J. Trump back into the Oval Office. Like our president,… …
Editorial: Victory (11/6/2024) - The winners laugh, the losers weep, and in time, we hope, the people will unite to move the nation forward. “Out of many, one”: e pluribus unum. Let’s try to… …
Editorial: Tradition (11/6/2024) - After all the months of sound and fury, you know the end of the campaign season is near when you find yourself drawing up the Gazette-Journal’s traditional charts: How Gloucester… …
Editorial: Thankful? (11/6/2024) - By tradition, the Gazette-Journal gives its “Readers Write” space on Thanksgiving Day to our readers who tell us what makes them thankful. We receive interesting, often moving, stories each year.… …
How often do you refer to the paper? (11/6/2024) - We asked our Facebook followers this past week how often they refer to a single issue of the Gazette-Journal. A total of 63.6 percent of survey takers said they refer… …Letter: Election workers great (11/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I am writing to say Thank You to the election officials and poll volunteers in Gloucester and Mathews. My husband and I appreciate the time and talent they… …
Letter: Post-election notes (11/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: By the time you read this, the election will be over. Question is, how did you do? At 84 years, Christian, and observing the decline of our nation… …
Letter: Successful House Party (11/6/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On behalf of the Fairfield Foundation Board of Directors, we thank the sponsors and supporters of our Annual Historic House Party held at Exchange on Gloucester’s scenic North… …
Editorial: Vote for civility (10/30/2024) - For the sake of our nation, can civility triumph at the polls next Tuesday? We have approached the presidential election with less-than-excited vibes, expecting the rivers of mud that were… …
Editorial: Your letters (10/30/2024) - We thank those who have written letters about this election for (more or less) adhering to our guidelines of 300 words, no more than once a month. This made space… …
Additional coverage (10/30/2024) - At the Gazette-Journal, we work hard to deliver accurate and informative news each week. However, we were curious to see what kind of content our readers would like to see… …Letter: Good people (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I know that there are some bad people in Gloucester, but there are far more good people. I was in the Family Dollar store last week. I brought… …
Letter: Blessings (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I would like to thank the Bay Transit/Bay Express staff and express what a blessing they are to folks like me who don’t have a car. It may… …
Letter: Standing against hearsay (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I offer the following comments on the proposed Gwynn’s Island highway marker and your article of Oct. 24 Very simply, the state approved the marker based on hearsay… …
Letter: Election hyperbole may be rooted in founding (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Thomas Jefferson described the Constitution as imperfect and as should be reviewed by each generation. Jefferson’s prognostication may have been because so few were eligible to vote. The… …
Letter: The dishonest Democratic Party (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Democratic Party has implemented numerous bad policies through President Joe Biden. The worst is inviting people from all over the world to cross unimpeded and unvetted into… …
Letter: Critical of Democrats (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I cannot but comment on the advertisement in the Gazette-Journal paid for by the Democratic Party these past few weeks that states, “Choose Freedom! Vote Democrat!” Freedom? Freedom… …
Letter: For whom will you vote? (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Both candidates are known, Trump as president for four years, and Harris as vice president for four years under President Joe Biden. When Kamala Harris was asked what… …
Letter: What’s in it for them? (10/30/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Has anyone stopped to ask themselves why Project 2025 exists? Nine hundred footnoted pages is an immense amount of work, for which people were paid to research and… …