Following guidance from federal, state and local officials, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Virginia Department of Health, the 2020 Gloucester Arts Festival will be cancelled for June 2020 and will return in 2021, steering committee leadership of the annual event announced today.

The Main Street Preservation Trust has opened applications for 2020 for business and property owners along Main Street in Gloucester who wish to improve their facades or interiors of their buildings in the commercial area of Main Street.

The Riverside Walter Reed Hospital team of volunteers are delighted to announce that the community can kick off its holiday shopping Monday, Dec. 2 and Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Daffodil Gift Shop at the hospital just off of Main Street, located at 7519 Hospital Drive, Gloucester, Virginia 23061. …

The 2019 Annual VersAbility Resources Gala, presented by Old Point National Bank, raised $92,800, a record for the organization’s signature fundraiser.

The Gloucester Main Street Association is pleased to announce it will host “Dinner and a Drive-In Holiday Movie” in the Gloucester Village!

Kelsick Specialty Market Awarded 2019 Retailer of the Year and Smith’s Florist and Gift Shoppe Earned Peninsula Top Award GLOUCESTER, Va. – Two staple businesses from Gloucester Main Street took home the Retail Alliance’s top 2019 honor and the Peninsula region’s highest award. The Retail Alliance, a non-profit trade association that represents businesses across Hampton

Connecting community through fitness. That’s the mission of the popular Downtown Fit program, which returns to Gloucester Main Street for the 2019 season on June 10 with the first in a series of group fitness classes, collaborations with a local brewpub and other special events for the community that run through the fall.

Familiar faces, as part of a famous familiar series, are set to return to Main Street in Gloucester this summer, the Gloucester Arts Festival committee announced this week.

Gloucester Main Street. The Downtown. The Gloucester Village. Gloucester Courthouse.

Whatever you call this historic retail corridor in the heart of the Middle Peninsula, one thing is for certain – there is a lot of support for local business here.

It very much is the definition of businesses supporting businesses.

That’s why YOU ARE INVITED to the latest business education session presented by the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust.

The Middle Peninsula Alliance announced today it is accepting nominations from the community for private-sector leaders in business or non-profit organizations to serve on its Advisory Board.

Residents on the Middle Peninsula can now earn rewards for carpooling, vanpooling and telecommuting, as well as build stronger connections with others also looking to ride share to work, thanks to the recent launch of the enhanced MidPenRideShare online platform.

Do you love our Main Street community and craft beer? Live music and food trucks? Good times?

Well, we have good news!

As we gear up for the 2019 Beer Garden, happening Saturday, April 6 at the Daffodil Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., we NEED YOUR HELP!

This past week, while attending the Virginia Economic Developers Association Spring 2019 Conference in Harrisonburg, I was reminded yet again just how powerful LOVING WHERE YOU LIVE can be on cultivating a community and growing the opportunities available here for all.

You’re invited! Please join us on Gloucester Main Street for the Puller Center Open House on April 11, 2019 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

6632 Main Street, Gloucester, Virginia 23061

Following nearly three decades of bringing the Middle Peninsula and Northern Neck community natural, organic and homemade foods, fine wine, and craft beer, Kelsick Specialty Market is pleased to announce Yorktown-native Paige Drewry as its new owner.

The Riverside Sanders Retirement Community, located right here on Main Street, will host a Free Community Easter Egg Hunt for children 12 and under on Saturday, April 13, 2019 from 1 PM – 4 PM.

Heart Felt Touch Massage Therapy and Caregivers of the Commonwealth will host a unique opportunity for family and professional caregivers to learn a new skill called Compassionate Touch®.

Kelsick Specialty Market right here on Gloucester Main Street said it perfectly: “one of the incredible things about living and doing business in Gloucester is the kindness of the people here. So kind, in fact, that our community is filled with countless organizations that’s sole mission is to help others.”

Do you have an employee that is always going above and beyond? Well Split Enz Salon on Gloucester Main Street is hosting an “Employee of the Month” Beauty Giveaway, allowing all business owners and supervisors throughout our community the opportunity to nominate their SUPER STAR for a little EXTRA gratitude for their job well done!

Outdoor enthusiasts who want to explore the Middle Peninsula waterways like Captain John Smith, wade in the waves like a waterman, or paddle the bays, creeks and rivers of the Commonwealth’s premier rural coastal Virginia region can now plan their outing and experience more easily thanks to the newly launched Virginia Water Trails interactive web site.