by James Ritch | May 30, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Cell phone calls and text messages and where you are when you make those calls or send those communications are not as private as you may think thanks to what is called cell tower dumps. Five years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union filed...
by James Ritch | May 30, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Northampton County Director of Planning and Zoning Susan McGhee recently pointed out some huge demands in the latest draft of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan that could be...
by James Ritch | May 30, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Northampton County Director of Finance John Chandler presented the proposed county budget for fiscal year 2020 to supervisors Tuesday evening, totaling more than $48.5 million, an increase of more than $2.25 million. The county will get the extra...
by James Ritch | May 28, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – An anonymous writer who claims to be from Wellington Neck recently sent letters to neighbors warning them about John and Linda Cleaveland’s plans for a wedding venue on their property and the potential negative impacts it would bring to the...
by James Ritch | May 28, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – A local nonprofit recently asked Northampton supervisors to waive the fee the county normally charges to review plans for new construction, but it turned into a debate about who gets more breaks in Northampton County, the “haves” or the...
by James Ritch | May 26, 2019 | Headlines
A New Jersey woman was charged with felony eluding after being pursued by multiple police departments along Route 13 Thursday night beginning in the Parksley area and ending with spike strips at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The office of Accomack Sherif Todd...