Gloucester Point News

A boy who drowned on Saturday in the York River at Gloucester Point Beach has been identified as Brian Flores, of Jarratt, Va., a small town near Emporia in the southeast part of the state.

This map shows the location where Gen. Wistar's troops camped during the October 1863 raid in Mathews County.

The Catlett Islands have existed for some 65,000 years, peeking from the York River like gnarled green fingers reaching for the shore.

Ann Quinn has been a woman of many hats at the Gloucester -Mathews Free Clinic. From executive director to volunteer coordinator, from front desk clerk to even a taxi driver, Quinn has always played a role in the clinic's success, no matter its size and scope.

A two-year-boy drowned early Saturday morning in the York River at Gloucester Point.

Where's a good safecracker when you need one? A Williamsburg resident by the name of William Ikner might like to know.

Dan Summers, school education curator for the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News , was the featured guest speaker at a Chesapeake National Estuarine Research Reserve organization Discovery Lab held on the Virginia Institute of Marine Science campus at Gloucester Point on June 16.

Owners of five Route 17 properties in Gloucester Point are fighting the Virginia Department of Transportation in court over the values of their land and buildings even as construction on the $16.1 million highway-widening project proceeds.

Looking for nearby things to do with the youngsters in your life? Here are some ways parents and grandparents can keep kids active, entertained and happy during summer vacation.

The Rowe sisters, from left, Frances Brown, Judy Mays and Nan Evans, look over their publication "Riley Remembrances," a family history/cookbook compiling nearly 50 years of family reunions.

Ever wonder why animals don't wear clothes? If so, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science aims to tell you from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Discovery Lab at its Gloucester Point campus.

Weeds spring from a concrete median into traffic on Route 17 in Gloucester Point .

Members of the Rotary clubs of Gloucester , Gloucester Point , Mathews and West Point joined other Rotarians from Rotary District 7610 in Stafford County on May 9 at the annual club leadership training seminar.

Long before Hans Schadler became a world-renowned chef, he was a little boy who trekked home from school every day to help clean up in his mom's busy professional kitchen.

Dominion Virginia Power held a community meeting Tuesday night at Achilles Elementary School to discuss its proposed 230,000-volt transmission line that will extend from the company's substation in Yorktown to the Hayes substation on this side of the river.

Having choked a methamphetamine problem threatening the Middle Peninsula earlier this decade, public safety officials have a new target: street gangs.

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science dedicated two new buildings -- Andrews Hall and the Seawater Research Laboratory -- on Thursday in Gloucester Point .

In an effort to keep you informed, VDOT publishes the following scheduled highway lane closures that may affect traffic in Hampton Roads.

Volunteers working with the AARP Tax-Aide program will be at the Deltaville Library on Thursday, April 2, to assist people with their income tax.

Richard Green spent the winter on the Chesapeake Bay searching for what scientists say could be among the most prolific killers of blue crab.