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September 9, 2026

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

Accomack SOLs Are Mostly Good News

Accomack SOLs Are Mostly Good News

  By Stefanie Jackson — Accomack schools Director of Accountability and Curriculum Sandy Drummond updated the school board on the Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments and the new standards of accreditation from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) on Aug....
Mr. Philip Bernard Tankard

Mr. Philip Bernard Tankard

Mr. Philip Bernard Tankard, affectionately known as “Philip Bernard or Pop Pop,” a resident of Bridgetown. passed away on July 14, 2018, at his home on Grapeland Farm at the age of 89. On Nov. 17, 1928, he was the very first baby born in the Northampton Accomack...
Mr. William Otis Lazenby

Mr. William Otis Lazenby

Mr. William Otis Lazenby, 85, husband of Mary Rose Lazenby and a resident of Atlantic, passed away Wednesday, July 11, 2018, at his home. Born Nov. 16, 1932, in Shady Dale, Ga., and reared in Onancock, he was a son of the late Otis Persley Lazenby and Jessie Mae...
Mr. Philip Bernard Tankard

Mr. Johnnie Henderson

Mr. Johnnie Henderson, 91, of Townsend, passed away Monday, July 16, 2018, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital. He was the son of the late Willie and Cordellia Scott Henderson and the husband of the late Sylvia Robinson Henderson. He was employed in the seafood...