by James Ritch | Dec 2, 2021 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — The Gathering of the Island Gnomes has begun at the Museum of Chincoteague Island. It is the second year for the event, which museum volunteers started in 2020 as a way to celebrate the holidays safely, in an outdoor setting, during the COVID-19...
by James Ritch | Nov 23, 2021 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – Dixon Leatherbury, an Eastern Shore native, retired farm equipment dealer, and Northampton County supervisor, has been taking on the challenge of growing and selling hops since 2015. Hops are the green, cone-shaped flowers of the hop plant –...
by James Ritch | Nov 23, 2021 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – The Virginia Eastern Shore Land Trust (VESLT) held its biennial Paint the Shore event this fall, and mixed it up by inviting student artists from Nandua Middle School to participate. “Paint the Shore is an opportunity to foster partnerships and...
by James Ritch | Nov 18, 2021 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – Eastern Shore Healthy Communities held a full coalition online meeting Nov. 10, during which Karen Downing made a presentation on the effort to remove systemic bias in Virginia law. The work began in September 2019 when Gov. Ralph Northam’s...
by James Ritch | Nov 18, 2021 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – Northampton County Public Schools is participating in two programs that seek to reduce absenteeism and bullying by making sure all students have access to clean clothes. The Kids Closet was the “brain child” of Northampton High School Assistant...
by James Ritch | Nov 17, 2021 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — Brianna’s Kindness Park on Chincoteague was dedicated in a ceremony held, fittingly, on World Kindness Day, Saturday, Nov. 13. The park memorializes Brianna Merritt, who died in 2019 at age 11 after a three-year battle with leukemia. Brianna towards...
