All About Pets (2/21/2024) - We asked our Facebook followers last week what kinds of pets they have at home. The most popular answer by far was dogs (45.5 percent), followed by cats (27.3 percent),… …Letter: Navigating challenges of today’s rental market (2/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In today’s market, locating an affordable rental home is becoming an ordeal for many. The supply and demand imbalance in real estate is disadvantaging renters and landlords alike.… …
Letter: U.S. must support Ukraine (2/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I sent the following email to Representative Wittman this week. If you agree or disagree with my sentiments, I hope you will contact your representative accordingly. Representative Wittman,… …
Letter: Language lessons (2/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: When you go to the polls in November, if you vote GOP, start learning Russian now. As a Navy ROTC college student, I took Russian to fulfill my… …
Letter: Wow, what a night! (2/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Wow! What a night at the 8th Annual Mathews Rotary Club’s Chili Cook-Off. Nearly 500 people, great chili and a true team effort by all five of the… …
Letter: Reading is fun (2/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette Journal I would like to extend my sincere appreciation for the recent support shown to Thomas Hunter Middle School students. As the THMS librarian, it is my passion… …
Happy Valentine’s Day (2/14/2024) - How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? According to our survey takers, 36.4 percent said they are having a romantic outing, staying in and being disgusted by the day each received… …Editorial: The march of time (2/7/2024) - This week’s newspaper contains some articles telling how our residents and officials in the 1970s thought about the future: future needs, future development, future population. We are all taking the… …
Letter: Friends from God (2/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The friends that God places within our lives are very special to us, and they’re by our side always when we need them. I am so very blessed… …
Letter: Not your father’s GOP (2/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Today’s GOP is not the one your father knew. He would not recognize it. Nor would Dwight Eisenhower or Ronald Reagan. It is now controlled by its right… …
Letter: Prepared? (2/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: New York City is handing out $53 million in prepaid credit cards to the illegal migrants. Question: Are Gloucester and Mathews counties prepared to accommodate their allocation of… …
Letter: Weakening the country (2/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Our Secretary of Defense went missing for six days. Even the White House didn’t know he was in the hospital for three days. Secretary Austin admitted that he… …
Letter: Clouding the issue (2/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It is so indicative for the Mathews Sheriff to use national methods of personal tallies. This was illustrated in Sherry Hamilton’s Feb. 1 article (“Gloucester Sheriff questions numbers… …
Super Bowl LVIII (2/7/2024) - The big game is only a few days away and we asked our Facebook followers this week which team they are pulling for in Super Bowl LVIII: Kansas City Chiefs… …Editorial: Know your school boards (1/31/2024) - Public schools arguably produce our single most important resource—educated young men and women. A community’s future is inexorably tied to the success of its educational system. In addition to producing… …
Letter: Al Booker, the mayor of Gloucester C.H. (1/31/2024) - Editor-Gazette-Journal: One thing I could count on when stopping by Tri-County before it closed was my good friend Al Booker. Whether it was local politics, the Red Sox, UVA sports,… …
Letter: I just don’t get it (1/31/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Biden has used Trump since the 2020 election to instill fear into the American people. Trump has served four years and accomplished more than any president in this… …
Favorite streaming platform (1/31/2024) - Which streaming service do you use the most? This question was posed on our Facebook page last week. Our followers were heavily split between Netflix and Hulu, which each receiving… …Editorial: Know your Mathews supervisors (1/24/2024) - It’s a new year, and Mathews County begins 2024 with three new members on its governing board—with two of those three new members serving in leadership roles, elected earlier this… …
Letter: Say ‘No’ to cruiseship plans (1/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Many of the residents in your coverage area are unaware of the issue with a major cruise line planning to anchor in the York River, on the Gloucester… …
Letter: The Ultimate Power (1/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I was motivated by Joel Emerson’s letter to the editor last week, “Resting on His shoulders,” to write this letter. I, too, have been very dismayed by our… …
Letter: Take a deep breath (1/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This letter is written in response to the last meeting of the Mathews County School Board on Jan. 16 and the issue of graffiti on the bathroom wall.… …
Letter: Citizen investigators? (1/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Please watch this 10-minute report from PBS (www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-citizen-investigators-are-helping-the-fbi-track-down-jan-6-rioters). It details how private citizens have taken it upon themselves to hunt down Americans who attended the January 6th riots.… …
Where do you look first? (1/24/2024) - In this week’s Facebook survey, we asked which part of our paper you enjoy the most and the results are in. Most of our Facebook survey takers said they enjoy… …Editorial: Know your county board: Gloucester (1/17/2024) - “I’d like to call the Jan. 2 meeting of the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors to order.” With these words from board chairman Chris Hutson, a new year in Gloucester… …