Turkey Trot (12/3/2025) - Petsworth Elementary School held its annual Turkey Trot last week. As part of the event, students bring in food items to donate. This year, 879 items were collected for Salem… …
Food drive (12/3/2025) - Throughout November, the combined FCCLA groups at Thomas Hunter Middle School and Mathews High School held a food drive. Students collected and donated eight large boxes of non-perishable foods for… …
‘Dinner and a Show’ (12/3/2025) - Martha Frame of the Mathews County Woman’s Club presented checks to Mathews High School Music Director Mark Givens at the recent “Dinner and a Show” fundraiser held at Thomas Hunter… …
Oyster project (12/3/2025) - Ware Academy eighth graders are working on an oyster project sponsored by Virginia Farm Bureau and the Tidewater Oyster Gardeners Association. The students have been responsible for helping build the… …School board to hold closed meeting Friday (12/3/2025) - The Mathews County School Board will hold a closed meeting at 8 a.m. Friday in the school board office conference room, 63 Church Street, Mathews. The closed meeting is being… …
AP students from Heritage visit Woodville School (12/3/2025) - The advanced placement African American History class from Heritage High School, Newport News, visited the Woodville School on Route 17, Ordinary, on Oct. 15. Woodville Rosenwald School Foundation representatives gave… …
Gloucester students introduced to mobile dairy classroom (12/3/2025) - Gloucester County’s Community Engagement and Public Information Department brought a unique opportunity to over 1,000 Gloucester students and staff in late November in the form of a mobile dairy classroom.… …
GCPS hosts state legislators (11/25/2025) - Gloucester County Public Schools recently welcomed Del. Keith Hodges (R-Urbanna) and Sen. Ryan T. McDougle (R-MechaniCsville) for school tours as part of the Virginia School Boards Association’s Take Your Legislator… …
Dukes Touchdown donation (11/25/2025) - The Gloucester High School Dukes Touchdown Club donated pet items to the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society on Friday. Shown taking part in the donation were club members, from left, Shannon Roane,… …
School appreciation (11/25/2025) - On Nov. 17, members of the Epsilon Eta Chapter of the Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc., recognized American Education Week by expressing their thanks to the employees of Gloucester County… …RCC holds campus-wide food drive (11/25/2025) - Rappahannock Community College recently held a campus-wide food drive where 1,334 items and more than $700 were collected across both its main campuses at Glenns and Warsaw. Students, faculty, staff… …
Legislative tour (11/25/2025) - Career & Technical Education teacher Alexander Witowski, from left, shows off what his students are learning in his technology and engineering class to Gloucester County Public Schools superintendent Dr. Anthony… …GHS Care Closet in need of donations in the new year (11/25/2025) - The Gloucester High School Care Closet is in need of both clothing and food donations when students return from winter break on Jan. 5. According to GHS special education teacher… …
Mathews hosts legislative tour of school buildings (11/19/2025) - Local and state elected officials joined members of the Mathews School Board on a tour of the county’s three schools last Thursday. Beginning at Thomas Hunter Middle School, the group… …Security issues top agenda at school board meeting (11/19/2025) - Security issues again topped the agenda at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Mathews County School Board in the Brooks Auditorium at Thomas Hunter Middle School, with the superintendent giving a… …
Duolingo learner (11/19/2025) - Waylon Streaker, 7, of Bena, is currently atop the rankings for Duolingo. The son of Cheyenne and Joseph Streaker, and great-grandson of the late Thomas and Florace Arnold of Bena,… …Ware Academy receives Ag in the Classroom grant (11/19/2025) - Ware Academy received one of 70 grants awarded in 45 localities in the Virginia Agriculture in the Classroom program. The Gloucester private school will receive $500 this year from the… …
Gloucester School Board makes personnel appointments (11/19/2025) - The Gloucester County School Board approved several personnel appointments during its Nov. 11 meeting, held in the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium. Shirley Cooke of Gloucester was named to a… …
School zone speed cameras installed in Gloucester (11/19/2025) - Drivers can expect to see new speed enforcement cameras at school zones throughout Gloucester County as an initiative to help create safer roadways and encourage drivers to slow down takes… …
Veterans Day (11/12/2025) - Local students participated in Veterans Day events Saturday and Tuesday. Scout troops from Gloucester and Mathews held their annual regional flag ceremony and planted flags at veteran gravesites on Saturday… …Gloucester school board holds self-evaluation (11/12/2025) - The Gloucester County School Board, meeting Tuesday at the T.C. Walker Education Center, looked inward, examining the results from its self-evaluation, reflecting on the board’s performance over the past year.… …
Harvard Prize Book (11/12/2025) - Mathews High School senior Sterling Ray Hudgins was a recipient of this year’s Harvard Alumni Association Harvard Prize Book. The award is given out annually to the top-performing students in… …MHS students of the month (11/12/2025) - Mathews High School’s students of the month for November/December are eighth grader Sophia Eno, freshman Cole Christensen, sophomore Tre Abram, junior Addison Griffith and senior Morgan Stearns (clockwise from top… …
4 Gloucester schools in Best Schools rankings (11/12/2025) - Gloucester County Public Schools has announced that four of its schools have been named in the U.S. News & World Report’s 2026 Best Schools Rankings. Bethel and Botetourt elementary schools… …
Grant helps THMS students with breakfast bag program (11/5/2025) - Thomas Hunter Middle School has received a $500 grant from the Foundation for Impact on Literacy and Learning and Albertsons Companies Foundation’s Nourishing Neighbors to help combat hunger due to… …