by Ted Shockley | Apr 2, 2024 | Opinion
Here’s a rule of thumb: We all should treat youth sports coaches like we treat our grandmothers. There are many similarities. We should listen to youth coaches like we listen to grandmothers: reverently and attentively. We should talk to youth coaches like we’d talk...
by Ted Shockley | Apr 1, 2024 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Accomack County’s school board chair said new rules governing hiring committees were enacted because the school system “has a long history of cronyism and nepotism” that she wants to prevent from continuing. Chair Janet Martin...
by Ted Shockley | Apr 1, 2024 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — The Northampton Planning Commission on Tuesday, March 19, voted 4-3 to send a rezoning application for property in Cedar Grove to county supervisors for their review and possible approval. A Virginia Beach restaurant owner,...
by Ted Shockley | Apr 1, 2024 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Some members of the Accomack County School Board wanted to ask questions of Brandyn Burkholder, the county’s supervisor of food services, during a meeting on Tuesday, March 19. But Superintendent Rhonda Hall declined to make...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 30, 2024 | Headlines
BY NANCY DRURY DUNCAN, Eastern Shore Post A jury has cleared Jessica Greenley Waterfield, the Oak Hall resident whose vehicle killed a woman on Nocks Landing Road on April 12, 2023, of an involuntary manslaughter charge. The jury in Accomack Circuit Court deliberated...
