by Ted Shockley | Jun 21, 2023 | Headlines
Heavy rain and strong wind continued Wednesday on the Eastern Shore, flooding roads, toppling trees, and halting the harvest of crops including wheat and potatoes. Wind gusts reached 60 miles per hour around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel,...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Headlines
An Accomack County man was fatally injured on Saturday, June 17, in a single-vehicle crash. Stevie Justice, 56, of Mappsville, was ejected from the vehicle during the incident, state police said. At 9:06 p.m., state police responded to a motor vehicle crash on...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post —Since Virginia was first colonized in the 1600s, it has lost around 45% to 50% of its wetlands, and nonprofits like The Nature Conservancy are striving to save what remains. Since 1995, the conservancy, a global nonprofit...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Plans to move the recreational beach at Assateague Island National Seashore have been decades in the making. The project is one step closer to construction, thanks to $17.7 million in federal funding announced this week. The money...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 16, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Community organizers will hold a vigil for Erika Bailey on Saturday, June 17, more than two months after she was hit and killed by a vehicle on Nocks Landing Road near Atlantic. Members of the public wishing to attend should meet...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 16, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post When Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, enslaved people there received the news of their freedom. It was more than two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation...
