🌱 How are Gloucester County schools handling more than 500 new bus riders?

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In today's newsletter:

• How are Gloucester County schools handling more than 500 new bus riders?
• How Gloucester Point businesses showed support after 9/11, 25 years later

Also on today's calendar: RiverJam 2026 by Arts On Main — Visit Gloucester, Virginia.

Today's riddle: What do you get when you cross an angry cow with an angry sheep? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 94 and low of 75 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Friday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, temps: high: 85, low: 71.
• Saturday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, with a high of 83 and low of 72 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Vladu provides back-to-school update (gazettejournal.net) — Gloucester County Public Schools, which serve Gloucester Point families, report strong attendance and growing bus ridership just two weeks into the new school year. Superintendent Dr. Anthony Vladu told the school board buses have already logged over 50,000 miles, handled minor breakdowns, and are transporting more than 500 new student riders, while elementary, middle, and high schools maintain attendance around 97–98 percent.
   

• The mood 25 years ago (gazettejournal.net) — Local businesses, schools, and churches across Gloucester, Gloucester Point, and nearby Mathews are remembered for the flags, signs, and displays they put up in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks. From Carolina BBQ House and Whitley Peanut Factory in Gloucester Point to schools and churches throughout the counties, the piece recalls how the community publicly showed unity and support 25 years ago.
   

📸 Around Gloucester Point

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Gloucester Point

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday September 12
• RiverJam Music Festival 2026 — Gloucester Arts on Main →
  Flat Iron Crossroads, 7709 Flat Iron Rd, Gloucester
  3:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday September 12
• RiverJam 2026 by Arts On Main — Visit Gloucester, Virginia →
  Flat Iron Crossroads, 7709 Flat Iron Rd, Gloucester
  3:00 pm
Saturday September 19
• 2026 Gloucester Wine Festival Attendee & Vendor Tickets →
  Brent & Becky's, 7900 Daffodil Ln, Gloucester
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday September 11
• Deputy Story Time →
  100 Long Green Boulevard, Yorktown
  10:15 am
• The Search for Headwaters: Mapping River Exploration in Early Virginia →
  Watermen's Museum, 309 Water Street, Yorktown
  6:30 pm
Saturday September 12
• 2026 Yorktown Fall Saturday Market →
  331 Water Street, Yorktown
• Foodies + New Friends Yorktown: Small Business Owners Edition →
  Water Street, Yorktown
• Yorktown Market Days - First Responders Market →
  Riverwalk Landing, 331 Water Street, Yorktown
  8:00 am
• Yorktown Market Days →
  331 Water Street, Yorktown
  8:00 am
• Before The Siege
  Colonial National Park P.O. Box 210, Yorktown, VA 23690
  9:00 am
• Founders Car Show →
  York County Finance Parking Lot, 120 Alexander Hamilton Blvd., Yorktown
  9:30 am
• Cherokee Cultural Weekend →
  American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, 200 Water Street, Yorktown
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Disabledperson, Inc posted a job opening for Janitorial Associate at Walmart in Gloucester Point, Virginia in Gloucester Point. Apply here.
• Williamsburg Landing, Inc. posted a job opening for Environmental Services Floor Technician in Williamsburg. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Gloucester Point here.

🗞 Nearby News

Yorktown

• Yorktown's Standout New Restaurant (virginialiving.com)
• What happened when, back then? (johnlocke.org)
• Who killed Star Trek Wars? (medium.com)

Williamsburg

• Williamsburg eatery marks 9/11 – as its done for more than 2 decades – with free dinners for 1st responders (pilotonline.com)
• Williamsburg Regional Library gears up for fourth annual comic convention (pilotonline.com)
• What's on the agenda: Williamsburg council to consider library, tourism funding (wydaily.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: An animal that's in a baaaaad mooood! (Thank you Lisa A. for sending it in!)
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