by Ted Shockley | Dec 25, 2022 | Opinion
Columns offering advice to the lovelorn have been appearing in newspapers since the 1890s. Intellectuals turn up their noses at such sentimental drivel, but we have a soft spot for drivel of all types so we’re going to give advice to the lovelorn a shot here in the...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 25, 2022 | Opinion
An advertisement in the Dec. 16, 1922, edition of the Accomac-based Peninsula Enterprise newspaper said Santa Claus did his shopping at the Ward and Kellam store in Belle Haven. Another Christmas advertisement, for Watts Brothers, the men’s clothier in Parksley,...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 25, 2022 | Features
The 63rd Bank of Cheer went smoothly last week as over 150 deliveries of food to needy families were completed despite a steady rain across the Eastern Shore. The monumental effort is carried out by an all-volunteer force that comes together each year to help...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 25, 2022 | Headlines
BY DAVID LOZELL MARTIN, Eastern Shore Post The noise heard in Onancock last Wednesday, Dec. 14, might have been the bombshell that Onancock City Council member Maphis Oswald dropped when she told an audience at the Historic Onancock School that the performance...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 25, 2022 | Headlines
Maryland authorities have arrested a man accused in two Dec. 23 Accomack County armed robberies. Charlie Oliver Ayres, 33, of Snow Hill, Md., is being held at the Worcester County Detention Center pending extradition to Accomack County, said Accomack Sheriff Todd...
