Teacher of the Year (3/12/2025) - Gloucester High School social studies teacher Jim Eccleston was surprised with the 2025 Region III Teacher of the Year award Tuesday at the school during a pep rally to celebrate… …Money available for workforce training (3/12/2025) - Financial assistance is available for workforce training for graduating seniors of Gloucester High School or Gloucester County homeschool students. The Abingdon Ruritan Club offers a grant of $1,500 per year… …
5 apply for school board interim position; budget discussed (3/12/2025) - The Gloucester County School Board announced the names of the five candidates who applied to fill its vacant at-large seat on an interim basis during the board’s regular monthly meeting,… …
Scholarships available for youth studying agriculture (3/12/2025) - The Northern Neck Vegetable Growers Association is offering five scholarships totaling $10,000 to deserving area youth studying agriculture. Eligible applicants must live in one of the following counties: Gloucester, Mathews,… …
Applications available for Youth Conservation Camp (3/12/2025) - Youth Conservation Camp applications are now available at the Tidewater Soil and Water Conservation District for Gloucester, Middlesex and Mathews County students that are in the ninth through 12 grades… …
School Briefs (3/12/2025) - Several local students were named to the dean’s list at Radford University for the fall 2024 semester. To receive this honor, students must earn a minimum grade point average of… …
Art contest winner (3/12/2025) - Gloucester High School senior Fatima Mayorga won first place at the high school level in the 2025 Virginia School Boards Association Eastern Regional Art Contest March 4. Her artwork is… …
Kindness Week (3/12/2025) - In honor of Kindness Week, the Peasley Middle School National Junior Honor Society students recently collected donations for the Bellamy United Methodist Church Loaves and Britches Diaper and Food Ministry.… …MHS students of the month (3/12/2025) - Mathews High School’s students of the month for February are eighth grader Leah Hyde, freshman Jamie McDevitt, sophomore Brandon Webb, junior Morgan Stearns and senior Gavin Dustin (clockwise from top… …
Weighted Angels (3/12/2025) - Thomas Hunter Middle School FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) students traveled to Riverside Regional Medical Center, Newport News, on March 1 to participate in the Weighted Angels… …
THMS Seahawk Band (3/12/2025) - The Thomas Hunter Middle School Intermediate Seahawk Band traveled to Lancaster Elementary School last Thursday for the Northern Neck/Middle Peninsula Area Assessment. The band played two selections for a panel… …
MHS String Orchestra (3/12/2025) - The Mathews High School String Orchestra received Straight Superior Ratings for the second year in a row at last weekend’s VBODA State Assessment. The orchestra traveled to Menchville High School… …
VHSL Speech Super Regionals (3/12/2025) - Mathews High School hosted the VHSL 1A/1B Speech Super Regionals on Saturday, welcoming teams from Appomattox Regional Governor’s School, and Brunswick, Cumberland, Buffalo Gap, Galileo Magnet and Northampton high schools.… …Vladu presents recommended $77.5 million budget (3/6/2025) - “These are hard decisions.” The Gloucester County School Board met last Wednesday, Feb. 26, in the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium to hear superintendent of schools Dr. Anthony Vladu’s recommended… …
School board looks at implications of preK-7 merge (3/6/2025) - Members of the Mathews County School Board took an extended look Friday at the implications of merging/consolidating Mathews Elementary and Thomas Hunter Middle School into one preK-7 school, as part… …
Pre-Assessment Concert (3/6/2025) - The Mathews Music Department and Seahawk Band presented its Pre-Assessment Concert on Friday at Mathews High School. The concert was a final opportunity for the MHS and Thomas Hunter Middle… …
Reading challenge (3/6/2025) - Fifth grade students at Achilles Elementary School who completed a 10-book reading challenge enjoyed seeing “Dog Man,” a movie based on a novel series of the same name, at YRC… …School Brief (3/6/2025) - Logan Brown of Richmond, has been named to the president’s list at the University of Alabama for the fall 2024 semester. To receive this honor, students must achieve a grade… …
‘Identity Theft’ topicof upcoming GREA talk (3/6/2025) - “Identity Theft” will be the topic of a talk by Officer Bill Adams of the Gloucester Sheriff’s Office during the Gloucester Retired Educator’s Association Spring Luncheon. The luncheon will be… …
DAR award (3/6/2025) - The Augustine Warner Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution recently presented Gloucester High School senior John Holt with the DAR Good Citizen Award and scholarship. The student selected… …
First place (3/6/2025) - Peasley Middle School’s Science Bowl Team claimed first place in the Cyber Challenge at this year’s Virginia Regional Science Bowl, held Saturday at Jefferson Lab in Newport News. Team members… …
Dr. Seuss Day (3/6/2025) - Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Tuesday to celebrate Read Across America/Dr. Seuss Day. Students in MaryBeth Burroughs’ seventh grade class visited the elementary school wearing Cat in… …
Thomas Hunter students address food insecurity (3/6/2025) - Thomas Hunter Middle School’s Family, Career and Community Leaders of America program embarked on a program to address food insecurity in the community through its “Every 1, Bring 1: Feed… …
Abingdon 4th graders travel to Colonial Williamsburg (2/26/2025) - During the Gloucester County School Board’s February meeting Abingdon Elementary School gave a presentation about its fourth-grade field trip to Colonial Williamsburg in November, organized by Gloucester Museum of History… …Trikeball fundraiser at Peasley on March 7 (2/26/2025) - Trikeball will hold a school fundraiser at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 7 at Peasley Middle School. Trikeball is a baseball game played on a gym floor where all players… …