Letter: Why I could never vote for a Democrat (4/10/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Can either political party move America forward? Here are some reasons why I could never vote for a Democrat. Immigration—Against immigration, you are labeled a racist by the… …
Daffodil Festival faves (4/10/2024) - We asked our Facebook fans this past week what people like most about the Gloucester Daffodil Festival. A total of 27.5 percent of our survey takers said they liked the… …Editorial: Festival season (4/3/2024) - This weekend brings the return of the Gloucester Daffodil Festival and with it, the promise of additional great things to come. From now until late fall, our community will host… …
Letter: Another red herring (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: At the last Mathews Board of Supervisors’ meeting, Supervisor Mike Walls stated that I failed to acknowledge the 97 White folks who left the Island between 1910 and… …
Letter: Rained out; support appreciated (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Gloucester County Public Schools Educational Foundation organizes an annual race to raise funds for two projects: the Teacher of the Year dinner held each May to honor… …
Letter: Recognizing excellence (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I have the pleasure and honor to serve on the board for the Gloucester County Public Schools Educational Foundation. I am pleased to work with those whose goal… …
Letter: Another successful year of Great Decisions (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On behalf of the Deltaville Great Decisions Board, we would like to thank the Gazette-Journal and editor Charlie Koenig for their support during the recently completed eight-week series… …
Letter: What could go wrong? (4/3/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: With the world’s debt in excess of $300 trillion, and with a decline in global GDP, the western central banks have lost so much value that they are… …
Favorite festivals (4/3/2024) - What’s your favorite local festival? We posed this question to our readers on our Facebook page last week. Mathews Market Days took first place with 33.3 percent of the vote… …Editorial: A tough decision (3/27/2024) - It was not an easy decision to make. But the Mathews County School Board made what it considered to be the best of a difficult situation, making the call to… …
Letter: Thoughts on the 8th grade move (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In response to the article (Gazette-Journal, March 21, 2024) on the decision by Mathews County Public Schools to move the eighth grade to the high school: I know… …
Letter: The border (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The best estimates are somewhere around 300,000 illegal immigrants crossed our southern border in December 2024 alone. This is over nine times the population of our county of… …
Letter: Women leading the way (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal:“Since my child will be a black child, born in Mississippi, whether I am in jail or not he will be born in prison.”— Diane Nash (One month only… …
Letter: Happy Easter! (3/27/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Easter isn’t the celebration of the Easter bunny bringing baskets of goodies to all the good boys and girls along with hunting down colored eggs, even though that’s… …
Favorite flowers (3/27/2024) - We asked our Facebook friends about their favorite flower this past week. We had a plethora of responses, the most popular by far being daffodils, followed by sunflowers, tulips, daisies… …Editorial: Spring cleaning (3/20/2024) - The weather’s getting warmer. Days are longer. Daffodils are blooming. Birds are singing. Spring is in the air. While you’re getting back out in your yard or your garden after… …
Letter: Support superintendent (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It was learned at last week’s school board meeting that the board majority is going to develop standards for the new Superintendent of Gloucester Schools. That has not… …
Letter: Unalienable rights (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Gloucester County School Board chair avoided my Constitutional mandate, informing me I had no Constitutional right to be on the GCSB agenda. The purpose was to teach… …
Letter: Republican no more (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I was raised in Worthington, Ohio … a Lincoln-Republican town. It was part of the underground railway smuggling escaping slaves to Canada. We were shown the houses where… …
Letter: The Last Straw Syndrome (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Remember when we were appalled by innocent sea creatures with protruding straws from their nostrils? Subsequent rules prohibited straw usage for water glasses. In view of the global… …
Favorite spring sports (3/20/2024) - What’s your favorite spring sport? We posed this question last Thursday on our Facebook page. A total of 42.9 percent of our survey-takers said their favorite was softball, followed by… …Letter: Ensuring free and fair elections (3/20/2024) - Editor, Gazette Journal: I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the volunteers and staff of the Gloucester County Office of Elections and Voter Registration. These dedicated people have… …
Editorial: Grounded (3/13/2024) - The Virginia General Assembly missed an opportunity to help coastal counties such as Gloucester and Mathews. That is unfortunate.Delegate Keith Hodges, our man in Richmond, introduced legislation that grounded on… …
Editorial: New normal (3/13/2024) - Gazette-Journal headline, March 12, 2020: “Concerns grow as virus continues to spread.” Headline, March 19, 2020: “A New Normal,” describing how life would go on under shutdowns and mask orders.… …
Letter: Fully fund the firehouse; cut budget to manage it (3/13/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The March 7 issue of this paper carried the scathing remarks Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue chief J.D. Clements made to county supervisors during last week’s public hearing… …