by James Ritch | Apr 3, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – A Northampton school board member and advocate for reform in the county’s public school system, Nancy Proto, of Cape Charles, announced March 28 that she will not run for re-election in November. Until her term expires, the retired school...
by James Ritch | Apr 3, 2019 | Headlines
At its April 2 meeting, the Accomack County School Board voted to add Monday, April 15, and Tuesday, April 16, to the previously scheduled spring vacation. All Accomack County public schools will be closed for spring vacation beginning on Monday, April 15, and ending...
by James Ritch | Apr 2, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — A substitute teacher accused last week of having firearms at Nandua High School, which is a felony, told authorities “he did not realize” that guns could not be kept in his car while on the premises. Phillip Gordon Stewart, 63, was initially...
by James Ritch | Apr 2, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — “I don’t know of white supremacy groups on the Shore,” Accomack Sheriff Todd Godwin said Monday after dozens of bags of Ku Klux Klan literature were apparently thrown from the window or windows of a pickup truck last Saturday, March 30,...
by James Ritch | Apr 1, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Two men were freed from Accomack Jail about three years ago after being charged with murdering a 22-year-old Horntown man because a prosecutor believed there wasn’t enough evidence to convict them. Those same suspects were indicted Monday by...
by James Ritch | Mar 31, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Police were following a tip when they found “both weapons” — firearms — in a substitute teacher’s vehicle that was parked in a Nandua High School parking lot last week, according to Major Shane Childress of the Accomack County Sheriff’s...
