by James Ritch | Jan 2, 2021 | Opinion
Dear Editor: Kudos to Giovanni Rosanova and Arthur Leonard for stating the obvious to the Accomack School Board, our children need to be playing sports!! Children need physical education as much as academic education. Sports motivates the individual student and team...
by James Ritch | Jan 2, 2021 | Opinion
Dear Editor: This is to add another accolade for Bob Bloxom on the event of his passing. I knew Bob through his work in the General Assembly in my ten years as Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System. I saw Bob in many legislative circumstances. He was...
by James Ritch | Jan 2, 2021 | Headlines
Submitted Article — Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital announced today (Jan. 2) that the Shore’s first baby of 2021 was a girl born Jan. 1, at 3:28 p.m. Camryn Renae Tankard was born to mother, Cora J. Bailey, and father, Charles R. Tankard Jr., of Machipongo....
by James Ritch | Dec 29, 2020 | Headlines
Staff Report – The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a man who entered the water when his tractor-trailer crashed over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel earlier today, according to a Coast Guard bulletin released at 7:17 p.m. Erik Mezick, 47, of...
by James Ritch | Dec 29, 2020 | Obituaries
Mr. William Alfonzo Hughes Jr., 64, passed away at his home in Cape Charles, on Dec. 9, 2020. Mr. Hughes was born in Cape Charles to William A. Hughes Sr. and the late Mary V. Hughes. As a child, William developed a love for the outdoors, becoming an avid hunter and...
