by James Ritch | Jun 26, 2019 | Features
Story and photo by Stefanie Jackson – Audrey Furness is retiring after 36 years serving on the Accomack County School Board, and very little of that experience has been negative, she says. “Our children, we have to do everything we can for them,” she said in an...
by James Ritch | Jun 20, 2019 | Features
Photos by Stefanie Jackson – Juneteenth was celebrated in Exmore Town Park again this year, June 15-16. The festival commemorates June 19, 1865, when the end of the Civil War and slavery was announced in Texas. (Click on any photo below to view the gallery.) Recording...
by James Ritch | Jun 19, 2019 | Features
With Isabella Bono-Evans, Documented by Krystle Bono — The brightly hued red and white bands stand tall and on guard within the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, its stoic presence on Assateague Island having existed since 1867. The Assateague Light, in all...
by James Ritch | Jun 19, 2019 | Features
By Krystle Bono — The islands are marked with many notable pieces of history, from the famous ponies that graze the shores of Assateague to the towering red and white lighthouse that greets guests entering the National Wildlife refuge. Chincoteague also holds a...
by James Ritch | Jun 19, 2019 | Features
By Krystle Bono — The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company announced Saturday that the final round of swamp cancer vaccines for the north and south herds of the beloved Chincoteague ponies has been administered. The series of three injections began in April as a...
by James Ritch | Jun 19, 2019 | Features
By Krystle Bono — Tide nor time wait for no man, and for Chincoteague resident Laura Davis, that was the quote her dad would always say that would eventually become the inspiration behind the name of her popular food blog, Tide and Thyme. Davis, who began her...
