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September 8, 2026

The voice of Accomack and Northampton counties on Virginia’s Eastern Shore

A Dying Wish for Wachapreague

A Dying Wish for Wachapreague

By Linda Cicoira — It started out as a local man’s dying wish to inform people about the USS Wachapreague so the knowledge would somehow revitalize his hometown and make it as prosperous as it was when the late Johnny Tatum was growing up there many decades ago....
POSTed at Sea Level

POSTed at Sea Level

By Linda Cicoira — If you saw last week’s Eastern Shore Post, you might have been as amazed as I was.  Del. Robert Bloxom’s column contained the world’s worse excuses for his stand against the Equal Rights Amendment. Virginia did not become the final state...
Has Northampton Gone Too Far With Unsafe Buildings?

Has Northampton Gone Too Far With Unsafe Buildings?

By Stefanie Jackson – A concerned citizen opened a dialogue with Northampton supervisors March 12 on whether county procedures for addressing unsafe structures are too heavy-handed on historical properties that may be worth saving or at least allowing salvage of...
Carolyn Daffin Hotvedt

Carolyn Daffin Hotvedt

Mrs. Carolyn “Faye” Daffin Hotvedt, 71, beloved wife of the late Karl Stephen “Steve” Hotvedt and a resident of Onley, passed away Saturday, March 16, 2019, at her family home, in Onley. Born Oct. 2, 1947, in Nassawadox, she was a daughter of the late Philip Milton...
Whispering Pines to Whisper Its Last

Whispering Pines to Whisper Its Last

By Linda Cicoira — The former Whispering Pines Motel, in ruins from being neglected and set afire during an infamous arson spree, is going to be demolished at last. Well, at least there is an approved plan for the dangerous, abandoned, and deteriorating...