by Ted Shockley | Dec 24, 2022 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post The Accomack school board voted 6-3 Tuesday night to approve spending more than $1 million on Saturday school, a proposal that several school board members said prompted many parent phone calls over the previous weekend. Before...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 24, 2022 | Headlines
BY CAROL VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post What if there were a medicine that might alleviate patients’ pain or ameliorate their ailments, but a doctor was not allowed to tell them about it? That is the situation in which some patients and doctors on the Eastern Shore find...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 23, 2022 | Headlines
An arctic front whistled across the Eastern Shore on Friday, Dec. 23, causing flooding in low-lying waterfront areas, sporadic power outages, and dropping temperatures. On the bayside of Accomack and Northampton counties, images showed floodwaters pooling in the...
by Carol Vaughn | Dec 20, 2022 | Headlines
Staff Report One woman was arrested and another was taken to a Norfolk hospital after an incident Saturday afternoon in Melfa. Yvrose Compere, 36, of Melfa, was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding after the Accomack County Sheriff’s Office received...
by Carol Vaughn | Dec 15, 2022 | Headlines
Staff Report A Quinby man was arrested and charged with attempted capital murder after police say he fired on deputies during a domestic incident Wednesday afternoon. Anthony Dwayne Baumgardner, 18, was transported to Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital and then...
by Carol Vaughn | Dec 6, 2022 | Headlines
Staff Report The body of a deceased man found on Assateague beach on Thanksgiving Day has been identified as Dewey Elmer Hall Sr., of Chincoteague, according to the Chincoteague Police Department. Hall had been reported missing Nov. 7 and was last seen around 1:30...
