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Indians win regional quarterfinal
Northumberland shut out Franklin, 3-0, in a Region A volleyball quarterfinal game Monday night to advance to the tournament semifinals on Thursday, November 12, at King William.
Marion Grey Trusch has been voting for the better part of seven decades, since she was 21 years old.
Gloucester resident Avis Ryals has worked as an election official in the county for 31 years and is currently assistant chief at the Roanes precinct.
Election field for Mathews supervisor gets crowded
Seven candidates are battling for two seats on the Mathews County Board of Supervisors, with five of them jumping in after the recent death of Supervisor Kevin Mitchem.
Will a Hollywood star Cruise into Mathews?
Rumors may or may not prove true, but property deeds don't lie. The hot topic lately around Mathews is that Tom Cruise and his wife, Katie Holmes , have forked out $16 million for "Green Plains," a 643-acre estate on the North River with a seven-bedroom brick mansion.
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Guest speakers joined hands to sing "We Shall Overcome" during the 100th anniversary celebration of the founding of NAACP on Sunday at Thomas Hunter Middle School, Mathews.
Candidates for the Mathews Board of Supervisors, from left, O.J. Cole, Neena Putt, Michael Brown, Jackie Ingram and Patrick Beattie, and for the Mathews School Board, Bill Johnson and Ginger Richards participated in a candidate forum sponsored Tuesday by the Piankatank Ruritan Club.
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The colorful swings were a popular attraction at Mathews Market Days on Friday and Saturday.
Jack Caldwell, right, of the Mathews County Historical Society, gets Tompkins Cottage ready for Masthews Market Days by giving some paint touch-ups on Wednesday morning.
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Lee-Jackson Elementary School teacher assistant Kim West gathers students under her umbrella as they get off the bus Tuesday morning.
Middle Peninsula voters' group remakes itself
A name change hasn't altered the mission of a non-partisan organization that has planned a number of community forums this fall, including candidate forums in Gloucester and Mathews counties.
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Clerk Katie Phillips assists Kathy O'Bryan and her children Charles and Rose at Courthouse Paper, Pens & More in Mathews.
$10 million sewer project will rid longtime eyesore
A $10 million sewer line project scheduled to begin in late September is signaling the close of a treatment plant in Mathews Court House that's long been an eyesore.
Mathews band night set for Sept. 16
VIENNA a ' The 18th annual Mathews High School band night is planned at 7 p.m. Sept.
Port Haywood resident Wayne Ittner said that along with other boaters who keep their boats docked at Queens Creek Marina near Hudgins, he is happy to hear some stimulus dollars are going to be used to dredge Queens Creek.
Lieutenant governor Bill Bolling, at left, made a stop in Gloucester Monday on his "Jobs for Virginians" tour, meeting at WernerAnderson Inc.
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Lisa White, who lives on Woodas Creek in the Glebe area of Mathews, is shown with a second cannonball she discovered while pulling weeds on the creek's banks.
In Gloucester, two schools misses AYP mark; Mathews, one school
All but two schools in Gloucester met federal reading and math achievement targets, with an elementary and a middle school failing to make the grade.
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Tammy and Court Van Clief and thier Great Pyrenees, Skyy, are ready to welcome guests to the White Dog Inn and bistro, recently opened on Church Street in Mathews.
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Tammy and Court Van Clief and thier Great Pyrenees, Skyy, are ready to welcome guests to the White Dog Inn and bistro, recently opened on Church Street in Mathews.