by James Ritch | Jun 2, 2020 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Onancock officials voted to extend the town’s state of emergency ordinance through June 10 and to continue suspending collection of the meals tax from restaurants through June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Councilman Bob Bloxom, who made the motion...
by James Ritch | Jun 1, 2020 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Eastern Shore residents this week joined people around the nation in protesting the death of George Floyd, a black man, at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency in Virginia Sunday in the wake of...
by James Ritch | Jun 1, 2020 | Obituaries
Mr. LeeRoy “Butch” Smith Jr., 70, husband of Sharon Adkins Smith and a resident of Melfa, passed away Monday, May 25, 2020, at his residence. A native of Exmore, he was the son of the late Lee Roy Smith Sr. and the late Isabelle Fitchett Smith. He was a U.S. Army...
by James Ritch | Jun 1, 2020 | Obituaries
Mr. James Wilson Bailey, 82, husband of Joan Ann Kelley Bailey and a resident of Exmore, passed away Thursday, May 21, 2020, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock. A native of Saxis, he was the son of the late Herman T. Bailey and the late Ella B. Linton...
by James Ritch | Jun 1, 2020 | Obituaries
Mr. Gregory Dennis “Ducky” Taylor Sr., 69, of Bloxom, passed away on May 25, 2020, at Riverside Regional Hospital in Newport News, Va. Born on June 5, 1950, in Exmore, he was the son of the late Emory James Taylor and Ida Mae Scott Taylor. Ducky was a waterman,...
