by Ryan Webb | May 20, 2025 | Sports
BY BILL HALL, Eastern Shore Post — Local fishing action continues to improve with the warming water temperatures. Black drum action is now occurring on both sides of the peninsula, from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel all the way up into Maryland waters. Red drum...
by Ted Shockley | May 19, 2025 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE BOWMANN, Eastern Shore Post — Northampton County supervisors are revisiting the county’s ordinances on lighting and fences in response to a resident’s complaints about glaring lights and barbed wire. Janet Riese, of Jamesville, said, “I live in a very dark...
by Ted Shockley | May 19, 2025 | Opinion
Here’s an assignment: In your town or community, conduct an informal count of how many homes are vacant. We’re not referring to commercial units — only residential units. Don’t count the ramshackle homes that have gone to seed. Don’t count the homes you know are...
by Ted Shockley | May 19, 2025 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE BOWMANN, Eastern Shore Post — Northampton County officials are proposing a two-cent real-estate tax hike to make up for revenues that have dropped or are stagnating. “It’s the last thing I want to recommend, but … I know that people want services that we...
by Ryan Webb | May 16, 2025 | Obituaries
Mrs. Jessica Crockett “Jessie” Robbins, 72, wife of Timothy J. “Tim” Robbins and a resident of Melfa, passed away Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. Born Sept. 19, 1952, in Nassawadox, and raised on Tangier Island, she was the...
by Ryan Webb | May 16, 2025 | Obituaries
Mr. Edward B. Hinman Sr., 74, of Parksley, husband of Marshelle Hinman, passed away on May 5, 2025, in Parksley. Born on May 15, 1950, he was the son of the late Mitchell Irving Hinman and the late Marian Taylor Hinman. Edward worked for Tyson Foods Inc. for 42 years....
by Sarah Barban | May 16, 2025 | Headlines
Walter David Brunk, 33, of Fiddler Lane, Jamesville, was indicted May 9 on 21 felony charges: eight counts of grand larceny, eight counts of stealing property with the intent to sell, and five counts of unarmed breaking and entering with the intent to commit assault...
