Hayes News

Woodville Plantation Park may well be headed for a name change, as we reported in a Team Gloucester blog post on Oct.

Loading... A 2005 aerial view of Fort Monroe in Hampton. The Civil War Preservation Trust puts the fort on its lists of endangered and at-risk battlefields.

A Newport News woman has been charged with a Halloween night assault that sent a 27-year-old man to the hospital.

Gloucester County Sheriff's deputies responded to reports of an armed robbery in the 6800 blk.

The Gloucester County Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery that occurred at a Dollar General Store in the 2300 block of George Washington Memorial Highway.

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.

Today, I wanted to fill you in on a couple of interesting shows that might easily be missed among this week's entertainment overload.

York District Supervisor Teresa Altemus held what she called a town hall forum Thursday night at the Abingdon Ruritan Club, Bena, to "clear the air" and "set the record straight." During Thursday's meeting, Altemus used much of the same tone as she did in her interview with the Gazette-Journal that was published June 25.

Sunny Lynn of Hayes and Spotsylvania County, who was a child of the Great Depression and a teenager during the rationing of World War II , passes on some cryptic economic advice she received almost 60 years ago as a young bride: "The most expensive thing you can do is to be poor," an elderly co-worker told her.

Lionel Jenkins, a lifelong Guinea waterman and farmer, was chosen to be the grand marshall of this year's Guinea Jubilee Parade.

An 88-year-old Gloucester man whose body was recovered last week from the Perrin River died of an accidental drowning.

Marilyn Blake found her favorite red velvety seats in the center aisle of row O of the refurbished Carpenter Theatre.

Teresa Altemus, Gloucester Board of Supervisor's York District representative, will conduct a town meeting at 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Achilles Elementary School, 9306 Guinea Road, Hayes, to provide information on the county's current reassessment process.

Seamus Sensabaugh of Port Haywood, gets a chance behind the wheel of a John Deere tractor during the Gloucester County Fair on Saturday afternoon, in a Farm Bureau exhibit.

Donald Green said he and his wife, Carolyn, were sitting in the living room of their home on Paige Road in Gloucester during the storm Sunday night when they heard a big thump and suddenly "there was a tree limb through the ceiling and rain was coming in." As of Monday there were no damage estimates, he said.

The problem is homelessness. The problem is education. The problem is too few programs for ex-offenders. The problem is there are no community-based lending institutions.

Bob Zentz is a Norfolk-based folk musician who specializes in age-old nautical tunes and sea chanteys.

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.

A man died in a single-vehicle accident last night when his pickup truck flipped over in Gloucester .

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