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Editorial: A sense of place (5/11/2022) - So, where do you live? Residents living next door to each another may have totally different answers to that question. For instance, one might say, “I live in Perrin.” Another…
Editorial: Post offices past and present, A to Z (5/11/2022) - Many post offices have served the communities through the years. Most have disappeared, while some remain in service. Sometimes we wonder what might have happened if the post offices had…
Letter: For the use of ALL of us (5/11/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The forefathers of this country held to the quote, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men (and women) do nothing.” Therefore they…
Letter: A response to the NAACP (5/11/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The following is in response to the letter in the May 5 Gazette-Journal (“NAACP opposes proposed transfer”). Well, here we go again. I don’t know what it would…
Letter: Thank you, Mathews County (5/11/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On behalf of the Mathews Historical Museum, we thank you Mathews—our citizens, employees, officials, their families and friends—for your support for “Celebrating Mathews Watermen,” at May Faire 2022…
Letter: Grandparents raising kin a growing trend (5/11/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: For many years, the staff at the Mathews Department of Social Services has recognized a growing trend of grandparents raising grandchildren or relatives raising their kin in their…
Letter: Rising to the challenge (5/11/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It is that time of year to recognize our EMS providers everywhere and we especially want to honor the members of the Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad for their…
Letter: Moms deserve recognition (5/11/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Mother’s Day, observed last Sunday, is a special time of the year to give thanks to your mom for everything that she has done for you over the…
Editorial: Opening minds, touching hearts (5/4/2022) - We are currently in the middle of National Teacher Appreciation Week, May 2-6. Everyone remembers at least one teacher whose influence went beyond the transfer of knowledge from a book…
Editorial: Give ’em the business (5/4/2022) - We are also now observing National Small Business Week, a week dedicated to supporting small businesses. We can cite a litany of facts and figures about the importance of small…
Letter: Not listening to the public will (5/4/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I attended the Gloucester Board of Supervisors’ meeting on April 27 at the old courthouse. They were discussing the taxes the board is arguing to levy on property.…
Letter: NAACP opposes proposed transfer (5/4/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Mathews Branch NAACP objects in the strongest possible terms to the proposed transfer of the public land to the Sons of Confederate Veterans and United Daughters of…
Letter: Going above and beyond for her clients (5/4/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Cindy Hogwood, a home health care aide with Bay Aging, is the woman for the moment when caring counts. Right now, Cindy has five clients on her weekly…
Letter: The hidden agenda (5/4/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Who cares about Earth Day? Earth Day can seem like a good idea; being good stewards of our environment is certainly a virtue. However, the hidden agenda as…
Letter: The difference the resurrection made (5/4/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: After Jesus rose from the dead, He appeared to His disciples and spent the next 40 days with them, explaining things they hadn’t fully understood before. It must…
Letter: An act of treason (5/4/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Did you miss it? An act of treason against the United States and her people. Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and four other Democratic members of the House of…
Letter: The Ministry of Truth (5/4/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The left is going nuts over the thought of Elon Musk acquiring Twitter. Twitter was a platform for the free exchange of ideas. It became a group of…
Editorial: Earth Day. Who cares? (4/27/2022) - Friday brought the 52nd iteration of Earth Day, half a century since American people started to worry (officially) about the Earth and what humans are doing to it. Half a…
Letter: Route 602 a hazard for motorists (4/27/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Over the past year or so, I have contacted several county and state offices concerning the condition of Route 602 (Burkes Pond Road) and the numerous trees that…
Letter: Recognizing exceptional teachers (4/27/2022) - Editor, Gazette Journal: During the April Mathews School Board meeting each year, we on the school board have the privilege of recognizing the Teachers of the Year. One of the…
Letter: Politics at their worst (4/27/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This administration is the most arrogant, radical, deceitful, inept un-American ever. All government departments have been weaponized to the point of being dismantled and abandoned. Truth-telling has been…
Letter: Where have all the leaders gone? (4/27/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: While contemplating the deplorable state of affairs posed by the current president and his administration, a quote made by a business leader of years past comes to mind…
Letter: Honoring a dictator (4/27/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Have you heard? Members of the American GOP are traveling to Budapest, Hungary in May for their annual American Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) conference. And guess who…
Letter: A troubling incident (4/20/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I have a lot to be happy about this Easter, because on Sunday, April 10, at 9 a.m. on T.C. Walker Road, my family and I got shot…
Letter: An egg-ceptional job (4/20/2022) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: MCVIC just wants to extend a warm thank you to Michele Baker and her hard-working bunnies for months of preparing for the Mathews Community Easter Egg Hunt last…

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