by James Ritch | Nov 6, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Harris Phillips was victorious in his quest for reelection to the Accomack Board of Supervisors at the polls Tuesday. The District 5 supervisor received nearly 56% of the votes winning over challenger James Rich. Phillips got 524 votes to...
by James Ritch | Nov 6, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Voters returned Republican Del. Rob Bloxom and Democrat Sen. Lynwood Lewis, both Eastern Shore natives, to their respective offices Tuesday in the general election. The tougher race was for Bloxom, a local businessman whose father served for...
by James Ritch | Nov 6, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Janet Martin-Turner is back. The former school board member, who fought to get an elected school board for Accomack, received the most votes in District 7 and was returned to the post she once held as an appointed member. Martin-Turner...
by James Ritch | Nov 5, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Calling hundreds of absentee ballots cast for today’s election “suspect,” Accomack County’s Republican Party asked the circuit court to put those ballots aside and not count them until an investigation of the allegations can be completed by...
by James Ritch | Nov 3, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira –An Exmore woman was acquitted Monday in Northampton Circuit Court of three felony counts of child abuse/neglect in connection with an incident that occurred April 5. Alexandria Colburn Settle, 35, was found guilty of driving while intoxicated....
by James Ritch | Nov 3, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Eighty-year-old conservation writer George W. Reiger was charged earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Salisbury, Md., with distributing bait and taking or attempting to take migratory birds at his private pond in Locustville in...
