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1a mhs homecoming court with inset MHS homecoming court (10/22/2025) - Mathews High School will hold its homecoming parade at 4 p.m. Friday, beginning at Thomas Hunter Middle School, winding through Mathews Court House, and ending at MHS. This year’s grand…
Mathews School Board to hold Town Hall meeting tonight (10/22/2025) - The Mathews County School Board will hold a town hall tonight, Thursday, Oct. 23, to give residents a chance to address the school board about issues of concern to them.…
schools mathews band Marching Blue Devils (10/22/2025) - The Marching Blue Devils had a great run at the Bands Along the Bay competition at Gloucester High School on Oct. 11. The band beat West Point and King William…
schools PETA scholarship McNulty first recipient of Halo House Veterinary Scholarship (10/22/2025) - Amidst nationwide veterinarian shortages, Gloucester native and longtime PETA fieldworker Thomas McNulty has stepped up to fill the gap and pursue a degree in veterinary medicine. In recognition, PETA and…
schools mes dictionary project 0 Dictionary project (10/22/2025) - Mathews Memorial Library made its annual visit to Mathews Elementary School last Thursday to hand out dictionaries to all third-grade students. The third-grade classes gathered in the school’s cafeteria so…
School board approves personnel appointments (10/22/2025) - The Gloucester County School Board approved several personnel appointments during its Oct. 14 meeting, held in the T.C. Walker Education Center auditorium. Michelle Hughes of Gloucester was appointed to an…
glimpses grea amy stamm Retired educators (10/22/2025) - Twenty-four members of the Gloucester Retired Educators Association welcomed Dr. Amy Stamm of Gloucester County Public Schools to the monthly meeting on Sept. 25 and listened as she shared her…
fall-vims-hab-project-1-scaled VIMS student seeks to raise awareness of harmful algal blooms (10/22/2025) - Bayleigh Albert, a graduate student pursuing a Master of Arts in Marine Science at the College of William & Mary’s Batten School & Virginia Institute of Marine Science, is in…
Gloucester 4-H Club competes in South Carolina State Fair (10/15/2025) - Bradley Murphy (at left) and Ryan Smith and Tristan Buswell (right photo, from left) of the Gloucester 4-H Club showed their hogs at the South Carolina State Fair, winning several…
Gloucester board reviews revised SOL ‘cut scores’ and expectations (10/15/2025) - The Gloucester County School Board considered the changes in “cut scores” in the Virginia Standards of Learning and expectations at its meeting Tuesday night in the T.C. Walker Education Center…
schools historical scholarship Ethan Cabral receives Gloucester Historical Society scholarship (10/15/2025) - The Gloucester Historical Society awarded this year’s $1,500 scholarship to Evan Cabral. The scholarship provides financial assistance to students third year or higher majoring in archaeology, anthropology or history. They…
schools college fair College & Career Fair (10/15/2025) - The Gloucester Branch of the NAACP held its sixth annual College, Career & Resource Fair last Thursday evening in the Gloucester High School gym. Here, father and son John Whitehurst,…
schools homecoming 1 Homecoming parade (10/8/2025) - Gloucester High School held its annual homecoming parade last Thursday along Main Street. Shown, from top down, are this year’s grand marshal GHS custodial foreman Khyre Jones; homecoming court senior…
schools marching dukes Halftime performance (10/8/2025) - Saxophonists Arella Williams, Jakob Johnson and Brody Chittum, from left, of the Gloucester High School Marching Dukes delivered a halftime performance during Friday night’s homecoming game after the Duke and…
schools brew and gold cafe Brew & Gold Café (10/8/2025) - With the closure of The Thrifty Spot at the start of this school year, another transition-to-work, on-site job training program for students with disabilities opened this week at Mathews High…
schools mhs band Future Marching Blue Devils (10/8/2025) - Members of the Mathews High School Marching Blue Devils were joined on the field Friday night by Future Marching Blue Devils from Thomas Hunter Middle School. Here, MHS band members…
MHS students of the month (10/8/2025) - Mathews High School’s students of the month for September are eighth grader Harper Tomcany, freshman Keira Cannon, sophomore Mia Marrero, junior Savannah Bass (not pictured) and senior Emma Skaza (clockwise…
schools 4h animal science Murphy earns first in state fair events (10/8/2025) - Mathews High School senior Bradley Murphy of the Gloucester Animal Science 4-H Club placed in several livestock competitions, including two first-place wins, during this year’s State Fair of Virginia, which…
CCS to hold Admission Open House Nov.10 (10/8/2025) - Christchurch School in Middlesex County will host an Admission Open House from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10 for families and students interested in either day or…
School Briefs (10/8/2025) - Amanda Prochnow and Jessica Carter, both of Gloucester, each graduated with their nursing degrees from James Madison University during commencement exercises held in August. Kyle Gillispie of Hayes, Brittainy Kenner…
point colonial williamsburg trip Gloucester fourth graders to visit Colonial Williamsburg (10/8/2025) - Every fourth grader in Gloucester County Public Schools will soon visit Colonial Williamsburg for a free educational study trip, made possible through a partnership with several local groups. This hands-on…
schools michelle williams Williams is ACTE Region II New Teacher of the Year (10/8/2025) - Michelle Hill Williams, a teacher at Mathews County Public Schools, has been named the Association for Career and Technical Education’s 2026 ACTE Region II New Teacher of the Year and…
ALL EYES OPEN Far left is out of focus - TO G-J 50 years (10/8/2025) - Gloucester High School’s Class of 1975 held a 50-year reunion Friday at the Freight Shed in Yorktown. Class members attending included, first row from left, Mary Ann Huggins Roddin, Sally…
schools mathews board Mathews board looks into changes in SOL ‘cut scores’ (10/1/2025) - Statewide increases in “cut scores,” or minimum scores required for demonstrating proficiency in math and reading Standards of Learning tests, was a topic of discussion during last Thursday night’s meeting…
ghs parade 1 GHS homecoming parade tonight, game tomorrow (10/1/2025) - The Gloucester High School homecoming parade will step off this evening, Thursday, Oct. 2, from Main Street Center at 5:15, traveling along Main Street until it reaches Botetourt Elementary School.…

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