by Ted Shockley | Mar 20, 2023 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Shore First — When the COVID-19 pandemic ended the Eastville Volunteer Fire Company’s fundraising projects, prospects looked dire for the organization, which was incorporated in 1931. Prohibitions on gathering meant the fire company’s bingo nights and...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 17, 2023 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Northampton supervisors voted Tuesday night to prevent future wetland mitigation projects that only would benefit other localities. Such projects “cannot be allowed in Northampton County; 73% of our land is water; only 200...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 17, 2023 | Headlines
BY CAROL VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Eastern Shore residents from Chincoteague to lower Northampton County flocked to a public hearing about the Eastern Shore Rail Trail at Eastern Shore Community College. The purpose of Monday’s open house-style hearing was to seek...
by Carol Vaughn | Mar 7, 2023 | Headlines
BY CAROL VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post Senator Lynwood Lewis announced this week he will not seek another term in the Virginia Senate. Lewis, 60, has been a state senator since 2014 and was a delegate for a decade before that. “I did not come to this decision easily, but...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 2, 2023 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — An Accomack County man has been found guilty of two counts of manslaughter in the vehicular deaths of two Northampton students riding in the back seat of a car he hit on U.S. Route 13 last year. Joseph Castiglia, 22, of Melfa,...
by Ted Shockley | Feb 21, 2023 | Headlines
BY CAROL VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post Robert Bloxom Jr., who first won election to the House of Delegates in 2014, appears to be set for re-election after what might have been the biggest test of his political career. The Republican delegate who previously said he would...
