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The Merchant Square’s Food Drive starts on March 12. (WYDaily/Courtesy of Unsplash) MERCHANTS SQUARE — Colonial Williamsburg’s Merchants Square is hosting a food drive to benefit the House of Mercy in Williamsburg starting Friday. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Williamsburg House of Mercy has collected over a million pounds of food for those in need, and is continuing to do so with this year’s Merchants Square Food Drive, according to a Merchants Square Facebook post on Monday.  The donation event begins Friday, March 12 and continues through Saturday, March 21 from 10 ...

In their fathers’ footsteps, 4 will hike from Portland to Boston for cancer research Nearly 50 years ago, four friends walked more than 100 miles to raise money for The Jimmy Fund. Now, three of their sons and one of their daughters want to do it again. Share Above, from left, Denise Payette-Holmes, Peter Wildes, Link Erskine and Joe McHugh have decided to repeat a 100-mile journey their fathers, at top, took in 1973 to raise money for the Jimmy Fund. From left top are Norm Payette, Wilbur Wildes, Ge Erskine, and Dave McHugh. Contributed / Peter Wildes SOUTH PORTLAND — In 1973, four So...