by James Ritch | Jan 29, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Cape Charles won’t receive a grant from the Virginia Department of Transportation to help fund the lower Northampton County bike and hike trail’s safe crossing over Route 13, at least not this year. Clara Vaughn, of the Accomack-Northampton...
by James Ritch | Jan 29, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Billy Joe Tarr, a 64-year-old island native who represents Chincoteague on the Accomack Board of Supervisors, will seek a second four-year term in the November general election. “It has been a learning experience,” Tarr said this week. “It is...
by James Ritch | Jan 28, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Police are looking for a Machipongo man who is wanted in connection with an armed robbery at the Dollar General store in Parksley earlier this month. “Based on an investigation into this incident, arrest warrants have been issued against...
by James Ritch | Jan 28, 2019 | Headlines
Story and Photos by Stefanie Jackson The Northampton County NAACP, Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore, and Northampton County Public Schools organized the 29th annual Community Unity Day breakfast in the Northampton High School cafeteria on Martin Luther King Jr....
by James Ritch | Jan 28, 2019 | Headlines
Story by Stefanie Jackson and Photo by Helene Doughty A house fire Sunday night, Jan. 20, in Birdsnest, claimed the life of one woman who has not yet been positively identified by authorities. The Eastern Shore 9-1-1 Center received the call at 11:25 p.m. Fire...
by James Ritch | Jan 25, 2019 | Headlines
UPDATE UPDATE By Linda Cicoira — After an hour of deliberation Friday, an Accomack jury recommended Evron Terrell Strand, 44, of Nelsonia be sentenced to 50 years for seven felony counts in a murder-for-hire scheme that resulted in the shooting of a police...
