by James Ritch | Jul 17, 2019 | Headlines
Story and Photo by Linda Cicoira — Heavy smoke blew northwest into the sky from tanks where chemical explosions occurred at around 3 p.m., Wednesday, at Perdue Farms, in Accomac, while hundreds of employees were evacuated and others were kept from starting their...
by James Ritch | Jul 12, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — U.S. Marshals were in Painter today to arrest an Eastern Shore man wanted for a double homicide in Puerto Rico. Jonathan Aviles-Alers, 28, was arrested at 6:45 a.m., Friday, July 12, at a residence in the 33000 block of Lankford Highway, in...
by James Ritch | Jul 11, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Northampton school board made a unanimous decision June 27 to research restorative discipline and how it may be implemented in the county’s public schools, after school board member Nancy Proto and community members made the case that...
by James Ritch | Jul 11, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Northampton County Board of Supervisors Chairman Spencer Murray threw one of the rules out the window Tuesday night at a public hearing on the event venue that John and Linda Cleaveland proposed for hosting weddings and other special events at...
by James Ritch | Jul 11, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — A local tattoo artist was indicted Monday in Northampton Circuit Court on two counts of making written death threats to an Eastville area woman last April. Robert “Buddah” George, 44, of Rogers Drive in Nassawadox, is accused of writing in a...
by James Ritch | Jul 11, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — The Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack, also called the Battle of Hampton Roads, occurred on March 9, 1862, during the Civil War, and was history’s first duel between ironclad warships. It was the beginning of a new era of naval warfare....
