by James Ritch | Sep 30, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — A group of around two dozen NASA Wallops Flight Facility employees and their supporters demonstrated outside the facility’s main gate Wednesday morning to protest a mandate saying federal employees and contractors must be vaccinated against COVID-19....
by James Ritch | Sep 24, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — The email addresses of around 1,800 people or businesses who had applied for a building permit in the past in Accomack County were improperly disseminated after a routine upgrade to the computer application the county uses to handle permitting. The...
by James Ritch | Sep 23, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Accomack school board failed to adopt a controversial policy concerning transgender students when a Sept. 21 vote on the matter ended in a 4-4 tie, with one abstention. Chair Paul Bull said the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that “policy...
by James Ritch | Sep 23, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Accomack County School Board member Janet Martin-Turner was censured by her fellow school board members Tuesday night for contacting the Virginia Department of Education, without permission, to discuss changing the school division’s application...
by James Ritch | Sep 23, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Accomack County officials at a Sept. 15 meeting continued discussion of how to use nearly $6.3 million in federal funds coming to the county as result of the American Rescue Plan Act. The Board of Supervisors previously identified three priorities...
by James Ritch | Sep 23, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Parksley officials approved a letter of support for NYP&N RR, Ltd., whose principals want to organize a rail bike excursion from Parksley to Bloxom. Rail biking is riding pedal-powered machines on railroad tracks that have no train traffic. It is...
