by James Ritch | Oct 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Wachapreague’s future as far as municipal sewer service ultimately will be up to the residents to decide, according to the mayor and town council. Mayor Fred Janci at the council meeting Thursday, Oct. 14, said a decision about whether to bring sewer...
by James Ritch | Oct 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission (A-NPDC) is overseeing the Eastern Shore Housing Needs Assessment, a process that includes engaging the community through public meetings and online surveys to identify barriers to obtaining...
by James Ritch | Oct 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Eastern Shore residents provided input for the composition of the Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Plan at an Oct. 13 meeting in the Cape Charles Civic Center, led by Gov. Ralph Northam’s senior advisor to the Secretary of Natural and Historic...
by James Ritch | Oct 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Northampton schools Associate Superintendent Jaime Cole says teachers are continuing to see the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on education from a year and a half of students not being in classrooms and suffering learning losses. She...
by James Ritch | Oct 19, 2021 | Headlines
Staff Report – A police pursuit that began in Maryland Oct. 19 ended when the vehicle being pursued crashed on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, leaving its two occupants with major non-life-threatening injuries, according to a press release from the Virginia...
by James Ritch | Oct 18, 2021 | Headlines
Staff Report — An arrest has been made in the 2016 murder of forty-one-year old Eric Clifford Rhatigan of Eastville. On June 16, 2016, his body was found in a field on Davis Wharf Road near Craddockville. At 10:57 A.M. on October 15, Joseph Tykot, 58, of...
