by James Ritch | Jan 2, 2022 | Headlines
Staff Report — The National Weather Service in Wakefield, Va., has issued a briefing as of Jan. 2, 5:15 p.m., in regards to the potential winter weather event this coming Monday. The weather service has issued a winter weather advisory for Accomack County for Monday,...
by James Ritch | Dec 29, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn – Businesses in Accomack County will have to collect a 5% meals tax starting Jan. 1 under a new county law. The Accomack County Board of Supervisors in September approved the tax, which applies to businesses excluding those in incorporated towns that...
by James Ritch | Dec 28, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Build Back Better Act, which the U.S. Senate will revisit in January, contains a provision that could help Virginia address increasingly frequent coastal flooding, stated Jack Alber, an associate of the Washington, D.C., public relations and...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Parksley Mayor Frank Russell said he will contact ANEC about repairing non-functioning streetlights in town, after a resident during the public comment period at the Dec. 6 meeting said a light at the corner of Staunton Avenue and Mary Street has...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Onancock officials held a public hearing on an application to rezone 7 Hartman Avenue for multifamily residential use. The current owners, the Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence, uses the property for multifamily use, but as a group...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Accomack school board at its early December meeting heard a teacher’s firsthand account of the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) and how the program for at-risk 4-year-olds is implemented in Accomack’s pre-K classrooms. “If you come into a...
