Mathews News

The Mathews Maritime Foundation Museum received special donations Tuesday to help remember the USS Mathews, an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship named after Mathews County.

Girl Scout Troop #1039 won the prize for best private float in the annual Mathews Lighted Christmas Parade Saturday night.

An artist's rendering of construction proposed for Williams Wharf. MCLC image . With the purchase of the B. Williams and Co.

Judy Ward and Clarence Minters, two Mathews Volunteer Rescue Squad members who have provided over a half century of service to the county, will be the grand marshals at Saturday night's lighted Christmas parade.

The Paul Townsend Memorial Sunday School class from Central United Methodist Church, led the audience in singing Christmas carols around the tree during Friday night's lighting ceremony on Main Street, Mathews.

Holiday tea for 450 people? That's 100 more than the Ware River Circle of the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters usually entertains at its annual holiday fundraiser.

Santa Claus will visit both Gloucester and Mathews this weekend. He will be along Gloucester's Main Street Saturday for the Christmas and Holiday Parade and Sunday during the Main Street Open House.

Col. John R. McKone was the guest speaker at the Veterans Day program at American Legion Post #83, Hudgins.

Casey Charnick uses a boat to traverse the ditch in front of his Maryus Road home.

Due to Tropical Storm Ida the finals of the Region A volleyball tournament will be played at Mathews High School on Saturday, November 14, starting at 1 p.m. when Middlesex plays Northumberland.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida proved to be no Isabel on the lower Middle Peninsula.

Building storm conditions are evident at the public dock on Winter Harbor at Onemo late Wednesday morning.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The colorful swings were a popular attraction at Mathews Market Days on Friday and Saturday.