JANUARY: Forty-four birders spot 16,105 birds of 102 different species during the annual Mathews Audubon Christmas Bird Count … Janet Burgess of Mathews returns after traveling to assist disaster victims in Saipan … Five Democratic candidates for the First Congressional District Primary take part in forum sponsored by CircleUp Middle Peninsula … Coastal storm blankets region with 4-8 inches of snow … Charles Ingram elected chairman; G.C. Morrow vice chair as Mathews County Board of Supervisors holds organizational meeting … Mathews Waterways Committee asks county to take over ownership of four aids to navigation … Rev. Marcellus Harris III delivers Mathews NAACP’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. ceremony at Wayland Baptist … Port Haywood resident Donald Hirst reflects on his iconic Vietnam War photo 50 years after Tet Offensive … Mathews supervisors vote to accept ownership of eight of the remaining nine aids to navigati...