Letter: Police appreciated daily (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Although May 13th is Police Appreciation Day, we appreciate them every day. When they go to a potentially dangerous situation their lives are on the line. Now they… …
Letter: A tale of three customers (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Today I took my masked-and-gloved 88-year-old mother to her bank’s outdoor ATM so she could deposit her COVID-19 stimulus check. While one masked man respectfully waited his turn… …
Letter: A humble civic gesture (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: COVID19 IS a plague, with no known remedy … yet.We still have little testing, and since I can carry the virus without showing symptoms of infection, I may… …
Letter: Unending love, gratitude (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Horror, blessings and love are the stuff of our lives. Our family stands strong because of the infinite compassion and generosity of friends, neighbors and total strangers. Though… …
Letter: School board is tone deaf to community’s situation (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Thousands of Gloucester workers haven’t earned any money for the last eight weeks and are currently unemployed—with many businesses closed or about to be closed forever. My business… …
Letter: A worthy example (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I missed the “Firefighter’s Last Call” for Andy James. Didn’t know about it until it was over. Reading about it in the Gazette-Journal put me at ease. So… …
Letter: He has served the community well (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: My name is William Turner and I am currently incarcerated at Haynesville Correctional Center. I am writing in hopes that you will recognize one of my family members… …
Letter: MVRS rocks (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad rocks. Lolita held me in her virtual arms and kept me calm until the troops arrived. Doug and John (in alphabetical order: equally… …
Letter: A coming attraction (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I have been reading of job losses during the past six weeks of 30 million. Several sources estimate the losses at 50 million. If this lockdown continues, the… …
Letter: One of many great losses (5/13/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Dr. Don Reed Herring of Norman, Oklahoma, was a natural leader. He was born June 11, 1933 to Donald and Pauline Reed Herring. He was a career officer… …
Editorial: An unnatural situation (5/6/2020) - Noted anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student was expecting to hear Mead… …
Letter: Wake up, America! (5/6/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: There is a thickly woven net of safeguards for those in our society who are financially challenged. Recently on national TV I heard a legal immigrant to the… …
Letter: Noteworthy achievement (5/6/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I hope all you readers appreciated the significance of the Virginia School Boards Association awards article (“5 Mathews programs featured in VSBA directory,” April 23 issue). Out of… …
Letter: Keep up the fight (5/6/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: For a number of weeks that have now turned into months, our country, our state and our county have been under attack by an unseen enemy. A virus… …
Letter: Keep the faith (5/6/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Keri A. Paige. I’m currently incarcerated at Middle Peninsula Regional Security Center. I’m a reader of the Gloucester-Mathews… …
Letter: Concerns for farm workers (5/6/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: As we watch the coronavirus pandemic unfold, we’ve come to appreciate the essential roles that all workers involved in our food system play around the country—from farmers growing… …
A nurse’s long journey (5/6/2020) - In 1952, I graduated from Johnston-Willis School of Nursing in Richmond. Previously, I had met a patient from Gloucester. Her daughter, Marguerite Smith, invited me to visit her and her… …
Work brought friends (5/6/2020) - I am retired as a salesman for The American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) and for many years during the 1970s and ’80s my territory included Gloucester and Mathews counties, and… …
How did I get here? (5/6/2020) - Living in south Florida, with my husband and four children in 1994, I was searching for a way to return to Newport News to help my aging parents. By chance,… …
Coming to Gloucester (5/6/2020) - When my husband, Charlie, retired from the U.S. Army in 1986 from Ft. Drum, N.Y. (snow country, east of Lake Ontario and not far from Canada), we decided to move… …
Eastward Ho! Part 1: From California to Gloucester (5/6/2020) - My husband Russ and I purchased our home in Hayes in July 2018 and moved in on Aug. 1, 2018. We had lived in Southern California for 46 years before… …
Eastward Ho! Part 2: From California to Gloucester (5/6/2020) - Yes … I am a “come here”! Although my mom’s side of the family can easily be traced to New Kent County and the Shepherdstown area from the middle 1600s,… …
Editorial: Opening soon? (4/29/2020) - Sometimes it seems that we have lived several lifetimes since this coronavirus pandemic came to our shores and shut everyone indoors. In fact, it’s only been eight weeks since the… …
Letter: We are in a crisis now (4/29/2020) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: For the past several weeks I have carefully watched the electronic meetings of the board of supervisors, discussed with several current and former supervisors, neighbors and friends regarding… …