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… …
School board to hold work session Friday (2/26/2025) - A work session to discuss construction and renovation priorities in Mathews County Public Schools, originally scheduled for this past Friday morning, will now be held this Friday, Feb. 28, beginning… …
Meals on Wheels (2/26/2025) - Siblings Lyman Hayes and Carter Hayes, from left, helped their grandmother with delivery of Meals on Wheels in Mathews last Wednesday before the snowstorm. Meals on Wheels sent two meals… …GCPS oratorical competition postponed to March 7 (2/26/2025) - The second annual Gloucester County Public Schools Oratorical Competition has been postponed from Feb. 25 to next Friday, March 7. The competition is sponsored by the Gloucester Branch of the… …
Mathews students excel at Area Honor Band auditions (2/26/2025) - The Mathews County Schools Band Programs had a great showing at the Northern Neck/Middle Peninsula Area Honor Band auditions this year, band director Mark Givens reported. Between the Mathews High… …
Snowman math (2/26/2025) - Just because students were out of school last week following the snowstorm doesn’t mean they weren’t still learning. Jack and Abigail Ramsey and Nathan Powell of Mathews, from left, built… …Wide range of topics covered at school board town hall (2/26/2025) - A wide range of topics—including everything from retention and promotion of students in grade levels and concerns about lowering standards for student achievement to how eighth graders are adjusting to… …
Tidewater SWCD offers scholarships to area students (2/19/2025) - The Tidewater Soil and Water Conservation District, through the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts, has two scholarship opportunities available. These scholarships are intended to promote the education… …