by James Ritch | Aug 17, 2020 | Obituaries
Mr. Prentiss James Ayres Jr., Eastern Shore stock car driver, avid Dallas Cowboys and NASCAR fan, and resident of Bloxom, passed away Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020, at the age of 79. His loving wife and son were at his side. Junior drove the #44 Pontiac stock car in his...
by James Ritch | Aug 17, 2020 | Obituaries
On Aug. 11, 2020, Mr. Donald Gene Childress, 73, loving husband and father of three children, passed away surrounded by his loving family at his home in Melfa. Gene was born Aug. 20, 1946, in Kingsport, Tenn., to Hubert Childress and Emily (Netherland) Childress. He...
by James Ritch | Aug 17, 2020 | Obituaries
Mrs. Mary Lou Melvin Taylor, 59, of Chincoteague Island, went to be with the Lord after a courageous battle with cancer, on Aug. 12, 2020, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock, surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Nassawadox on March 28, 1961,...
by James Ritch | Aug 13, 2020 | Features
By Jim Ritch — Jamie and Kristin Willis, serial entrepreneurs who created the Machipongo Trading Company and Eastern Shore Coffee Roasters, will restart their peanut roasting operation Saturday at Pearl Market. From 9 a.m. to noon, they will roast 15-pound batches of...
by James Ritch | Aug 13, 2020 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – What should happen to Northampton’s Confederate monument that stands on the historic courthouse green in Eastville, the county seat? The Confederate monument faces Eastville’s main street, Courthouse Road, as “a day-to-day reminder of some of the...
