by James Ritch | Mar 25, 2021 | Features
Story and Photos by Jim Ritch — Eagle 20-3608 returned home Wednesday, taking flight over the 516 acres of Mutton Hunk Fen Natural Area Preserve after a four-month convalescence for a broken wing. “He probably has family. We like to say, ‘he’s going home,’” said...
by James Ritch | Mar 25, 2021 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – Small businesses in Cape Charles and the surrounding areas still may apply for COVID-19 relief funds from an $845,000 Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) grant that has been only about half spent and expires Oct 1....
by James Ritch | Mar 25, 2021 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Holy Week and Easter, the new rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Onancock reflected on the past year, ravaged as it was by the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve experienced Lent for an entire year....
by James Ritch | Mar 19, 2021 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – The Cape Charles Yacht Club started its own charitable outreach program this year and raised $3,000 for the Cape Charles Food Pantry from their very first event Feb. 14. They set out to spread the love on Valentine’s Day by holding a drive-thru...
by James Ritch | Mar 18, 2021 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — A working group was formed recently to promote and support development of a 50-mile hiking and bicycling trail along the Eastern Shore’s railroad line, where the last train ran in 2018. The trail is planned to eventually extend from Cape Charles to...
by James Ritch | Mar 11, 2021 | Features
By Connie Morrison — Michael Teets was destined to have a music-filled life, said his cousin Jody Leonard. As an 8-year-old, he drank in organist Diane Bish’s “The Joy of Music” on PBS at Leonard’s house, a show in which Bish plays and demonstrates features of pipe...
