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December 2023
1st Annual Grinches Gallop
Join the MHS Athletic Boosters for the 1st annual Grinches Gallop! Bring your unwrapped presents, and enjoy hot chocolate or cider when you finish the race! There are 5K and 1 mile fun run/ walk options. Register before 12/1 for $40 registration fee- guaranteed a hoodie, after 12/1, registration is $50. Proceeds to benefit Mathews High School Athletics! Contact [email protected] for a registration form, or for information on how to become a race sponsor!
Find out more »January 2024
Mathews Gardening Group Monthly Meeting
Join Mathews Gardening Group on Wednesday, January 24th at 10AM for an insightful presentation on the Use of Native Plants in Shoreline Stabilization: Living Shorelines. What is a Living Shoreline? A Living Shoreline is a management practice that provides erosion control and water quality benefits; protects, restores or enhances natural shoreline habitat; and maintains coastal processes through the strategic placement of native plants, stone, sand fill, and other structural and organic materials. The Middle Peninsula Planning District, comprised of six…
Find out more »March 2024
What’s the Dirt on Mushrooms?
Join local grower and horticulturalist, Christian Brown, who will introduce Mathews to mushroom farming! The program will be held at the Mathews Historical Museum. Christian will discuss the diverse varieties of the most popular mushrooms and the numerous ways to cook them. The audience will have the opportunity to see the methods used on the farm to inoculate logs, will be able to touch and smell spawn, and will have their questions answered. Christian operates "Mush Love in Mathews, VA,” a mushroom farm…
Find out more »April 2024
Spring Community Cleanup
Calling all community members! It's almost time for our Spring Community Cleanup! Join us April 13 at 8 am to help beautify Mathews! Meet us at the Mathews County Visitor & Information Center at 239 Main Street to pickup your bags, vests, gloves, grabbers, nets, and snacks! We encourage community organizations and civic groups, as well as individuals, to participate- it's a fulfilling and fun day! If you've adopted a highway, it's the perfect day to clean your stretch of…
Find out more »Historic Garden Week
The Garden Club of Gloucester and Mathews is sponsoring this year's Garden Week tours! Gloucester will have two separate tours this year, each requiring its own ticket: the Saturday tour will feature three homes and the new Fine Arts Museum of Gloucester, and the Sunday tour will feature a multi-acre garden with sculpture throughout. Each tour is an art lover’s delight. Their owners have cultivated beautiful gardens and collected paintings, sculptures, and objets d’art in their travels. Visitors will want…
Find out more »Markets on Main
Join us for an extended market on the third Saturday of each month, April-August! Vendors and artisans, food specials and live music will be on Main Street from 10 am-3 pm!
Find out more »Family Art Festival
Come create with the Bay School! A day of artistic fun in The Bay School Backyard - art activities, live music, food vendors, raku firing, and beer from Gloucester Brewing Company- fun for all ages! Bring your favorite lawn chairs, and be ready to dance and groove to live music on the Bay School's backyard stage while enjoying lunch from Hungry Hungry Arrow. Or take part in the annual Raku Firing Fundraiser while you are there! Proceeds from this event…
Find out more »Gwynn’s Island Race
4m Run, 10m Ride or Run/Ride Duathlon: Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County is the host site of this annual race. Join runners & riders in this unique tour of one of Virginia’s special locations – then hang around to enjoy the music & food. 4 mile road run Starting and ending at the Gwynn’s Island Civic League, the route follows quiet backroads around the island, with a constant view of the water. The race course is 4 miles and the…
Find out more »May 2024
25th Annual Tour de Chesapeake
Located in Mathews, VA, on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay, the Tour de Chesapeake cycling event, now in its 25th year, offers rural, flat roads that all lead to water. There are 4 concise routes, each around 25 miles, which take cyclists from our own Gwynn's Island to Bethel Beach to the New Point Lighthouse. Each route has fully stocked rest stops, SAG support and lovely views galore! You may ride any route as many times as you like to add…
Find out more »June 2024
3rd Annual Party with a Purpose
Join the Mathews Rotary Club for its 3rd annual Party with a Purpose! This year's event benefits The Owens Center at the Mathews Land Conservancy, and features music by the Roadducks, and food by On the Flip Side and Coastal Thirst! Tickets include one drink, and can be purchased at MCVIC, Chesapeake Bay, Haskins Bayside Auto, and from all Mathews Rotarians.
Find out more »Saltwater Learn to Fish Day
Fishing & Learning Stations, children will be required to wear life jackets while fishing. Participants will be asked to sign a waiver. Refreshments provided! Rain or Shine (the fish don’t care)!
Find out more »Family Port Fun Day!
Join Mathews Parks & Facilities for a Family Fun Day at Port Fun Park! There will be activities on the new basketball courts, lessons and play time on the pickleball courts, an adult fitness trail, playground activities and the Mathews Memorial Library's Trail Tales! There will also be vendor giveaways and snow cones from Pelican's Snoballs.
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