Gloucester Point News

There is a vacancy on the Gloucester Library Board due to a recent resignation of a community member living in the Gloucester Point Magisterial District.

Local elections are sparse this year, but several offices feature incumbents facing interesting, if not strong, challengers.

Two-term incumbent Louise Theberge is technically facing no opposition in her Nov.

The Peninsula Fine Arts Center 's Friends support group is hosting 11 "Affairs of the Arts" parties throughout the year to raise funds for the center.

A jury of five women and seven men is expected to begin deliberations this afternoon of whether Ralph E. Frost is guilty of first-degree murder in the 2002 slaying of a Gloucester Point resident.

Gloucester Point Magisterial District Board of Supervisor representative Bobby Crewe will hold a town meeting at 7 p.m. Monday at Abingdon Elementary School, 7087 Powhatan Drive, Hayes.

A crowd gathered at the Gloucester Point beach Thursday afternoon to view flyovers of the "Patrouille de France," the French Air Force acrobatic flight team.

A West Virginia inmate entered an "Alford plea" of guilty this morning to a second-degree murder charge in the 2002 slaying of Lloyd Edward Busch outside his Gloucester Point home.

The decisive victory of the Revolutionary War occurred at Yorktown on Oct. 19, 1781.

Loading... A dead whale was trapped in a marshy area off Mill Creek near the Perrin River, a tributary of York River in southern Gloucester County, according to WVEC.

A beached humpback whale is drawing the curious to the mouth of a Virginia river, where the 25-foot carcass is rapidly ripening.

I saw in my roundup of Virginia news this morning that the commonwealth is trying to figure out what to do with a dead whale that washed up near Gloucester Point and is stinking up the place .

If Jim Zorn thought his seat was hot before Sunday's game, he better hope he's wearing asbestos boxers.

Scientists are investigating the death of a humpback whale found in the York River near Gloucester Point .

History buffs from Gloucester Point take notice: Gloucester County needs you. Specifically, the Gloucester Historical Committee needs you.

Linda Polk doesn't spend as much time in her kitchen as she once did, but she is glad to fill the menu whenever her children or grandchildren make special requests.

Purple petunias in my yard bring butterflies every year. I plant them around and under a bird bath near the back porch where I sit and watch the butterflies come and go.

Gloucester County is in line for almost $900,000 in federal stimulus funds that will be used to alter crossovers -- no u-turns or left-hand turns in some cases, for example -- on Route 17 between Gloucester Point and Gloucester Court House.

At the back end of grassy fields by Bell Isle Marina in Hampton rest about a dozen aged and faded boats, some collapsed around the metal stands that once held them upright.

The toe-tapping sounds of "Jumbo Lump Daddy" will highlight the Deltaville Maritime Museum & Holly Point Nature Park's first Members Oyster Roast on Saturday, September 12, from 5 to 9 p.m. The music and roast will follow the museum's general membership meeting, which will be from 4 to 5 p.m. Clayton Neal, on guitar and harp, and Gary Archer, on ...