Gloucester News

Dr. Gaylord Ray loves cooking and now creates his dishes in his new kitchen at Reedville on the Wicomico River.

Mahmood Kalantar, second from right, is glad to be back home in Gloucester after a three-week visit to his native Iran.

A recommendation on a development that would mix town houses and businesses on 18 acres in Hayes was tabled Thursday night by the Gloucester County Planning Commission.

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.

William E. Belvin was a Gloucester County supervisor for 30 years before citizens tried to oust him from office.

The Gloucester Post Office building has been renamed the Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis Post Office, recognizing the late Gloucester resident's service to the county and the region.

3, 2008. Critics say this was an attempt to publicly humiliate the two, who were dismissed from their jobs as Gloucester's administrator and attorney, respectively, only hours before by the county Board of Supervisors.

Public safety programs on the Peninsula are receiving thousdands of dollars of support through a package announced Thursday by Virginia governor Tim Kaine .

Three stores in Gloucester and Mathews formerly affiliated with Radio Shack are now independent and operating under the name of Tech-Zone. The change has been occurring over about the last year, said one of the owners, James "Danny" Bragg.

Construction of the new Gloucester-Mathews Humane Society shelter is nearly finished.

When Sandy Armstrong of York County wanted to know the botanical name of a plant called widow's teardrops, many of you responded with e-mails about its true identity.

Forty Gloucester County residents have been ordered to pay the county $2,000 each for a failed effort to remove four elected officials.

A deputy emergency management coordinator in Poquoson has been named to run emergency management operations in Gloucester County .

Crazy X plays country hits juiced with a splash of undiluted rock 'n' roll. When the group takes the stage, you're not likely to hear a slow-waltz, tear-in-your-beer country lament.

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.

The plaza, already home to Wal-Mart, Home Depot and numerous other retailers and restaurants, is one of Gloucester's busiest.

Her decision averts a potential rematch with Louise Theberge, who could run unopposed to retain her at-large seat on the board.

A man wearing a dark ski mask grabbed a girl and sexually assaulted her behind a woodline on Tuesday evening, the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office said.

After a month or so of haggling over language, attorneys last week signed the document and sent it to Parker on May 29.

Mathews County authorities are investigating their first homicide in seven years.