Winter camp (1/8/2025) - The Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society held its Humane Heroes Winter Camp last week. Volunteer Christa Brolley sits on the floor with Sawyer Harris, left, and Rebecca Wenner to show them her… …RCC to hold info sessions for foster youth (1/8/2025) - Rappahannock Community College is holding two upcoming information sessions designed to empower foster youth for college success. The first will be held this Saturday at the Warsaw campus student lounge… …
GMHS bandanas (1/8/2025) - Over winter break, sisters Tenley, Delaney and Aubrey Wiggs, from left, made bandanas for the homeless dogs at the Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society. …
Helping the Homeless (1/8/2025) - Page Middle School choir director Karen Scalf organized a food drive for Helping the Homeless and donated 172 pounds of food to the nonprofit organization on Dec. 20 with her… …
Lindsay named head coach at Regent University (1/8/2025) - Brett Lindsay, a 2017 graduate of Gloucester High School, has been named head coach for the Regent University, Virginia Beach, baseball team after a nationwide search. He will lead the… …
Recalling New Point High School from 1924 (1/2/2025) - In the fall of 1924, fresh out of training, Gazelle Clark arrived in Mathews County to teach elementary grades at New Point High School. Gazelle, a native of Lancaster County,… …
Holiday show (12/26/2024) - Ware Academy held its holiday performance Friday night, “Christmas in July.” Lucy Embrose and Edelen GianDonato, from left, dance with candy canes in matching Christmas tree headbands during the show. …School Brief (12/26/2024) - Steven Madsen of Hayes, was named to the Pennsylvania Western University dean’s list for the fall 2024 semester. To receive this honor, students must earn a minimum grade point average… …
College tour (12/26/2024) - The Irene Morgan Scholarship Fund Committee sponsored a field trip on Dec. 5 for 32 Gloucester High School students to tour Rappahannock Community College and Christopher Newport University. Transportation by… …
Toys for Tots (12/26/2024) - Every year, the Peasley Middle School field hockey team hosts an end-of-season party where each team member brings in an item for the school’s Toys for Tots box. The team… …
All Abingdon students receive Christmas gift (12/26/2024) - Abingdon Elementary School Math Interventionist Ami McCullough was able to present all 450 students at the school with a wrapped Christmas gift last Thursday after hosting a fundraiser campaign online… …
Tastes, Sights and Sounds of the Season (12/26/2024) - Thomas Hunter Middle School got in the holiday spirit last Thursday night, as the school hosted its Tastes, Sights and Sounds of the Season assembly. Family and friends filled the… …
Botetourt 3rd graders to carol on Main Street Friday (12/18/2024) - Botetourt Elementary School third grade students will be caroling down Gloucester’s Main Street for the school’s annual “Main Street Caroling” field trip on Friday. Students will depart Botetourt at 10:30… …Ringing in the season with poetry (12/18/2024) - Stacie Wiatt challenged her fourth grade students at Mathews Elementary School to create Christmas-themed poems using a variety of poetic techniques. The students wrote cinquain poems (five-line poem with a… …
‘Tastes, Sights and Sounds of the Season’ tonight at THMS (12/18/2024) - The Thomas Hunter Middle School Band, Art, Family and Consumer Science, and Technology classes will be presenting the “Tastes, Sights and Sounds of the Season” tonight, Thursday, Dec. 19, in… …
Christmas Day for the Dogs collection underway (12/18/2024) - Gloucester County Public Schools is collecting donations for the Gloucester County Animal Control shelter through Friday. Items needed include dog food, dog treats, collars, leashes, toys, flea treatment and blankets,… …
YMCA proposal dominates discussion (12/18/2024) - For the second month in a row, a proposal by the Mathews Family YMCA to offer a preschool/day care program for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds on school property dominated public… …
School board makes personnel appointments (12/18/2024) - The Gloucester County School Board made several personnel appointments at its Dec. 10 meeting held in the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium. Stephanie Reeves of Hayes was appointed to a… …
School Brief (12/18/2024) - Farren Winter of Gloucester, was one of five Shenandoah University field hockey players named to the 2024 National Field Hockey Coaches Association All-Region VI team. …
Fleet nominated for LifeChanger award (12/18/2024) - Ware Academy Head of School Dawn Fleet has been nominated for the National Life Group’s 2024-2025 LifeChanger of the Year award. Sponsored by the National Life Group Foundation, LifeChanger of… …
Christmas cheer (12/18/2024) - Members of the Gloucester High School Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Future Health Professionals club visited Heron Cove, an assisted living facility in Gloucester, last Thursday. During their visit,… …
MHS Holiday Concert (12/11/2024) - The Mathews High School Music Department presented its annual Holiday Concert last Thursday night at the school’s Harry M. Ward Auditorium. The concert of holiday songs, both familiar and unique,… …
MHS Scholastic Bowl (12/11/2024) - The Mathews High School Scholastic Bowl team, coached by MHS teacher John Corrigan, opened its season last Wednesday at home against King William. The two teams played “B” and “A”… …
Toys for Tots (12/11/2024) - Ware Academy families partnered with Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Rory Brill to collect over 500 toys for the Toys for Tots program this year. The Ware student leadership council… …Giving Circle awards grants to preschool, Tiny House projects (12/11/2024) - In its most recent round of grants, the Mathews Women’s Giving Circle is awarding $30,000 to the Mathews Family YMCA for the preschool initiative the organization plans to introduce in… …