by Ryan Webb | Jul 1, 2024 | Sports
BY BAYLEE JUSTIS COBB The Central Accomack Little League 50/70 baseball team won the District 8 all-star tournament. The team leaves for Alexandria on July 5 to compete in the state tournament. C.A.L.L. began the District 8 tournament at Princess Anne Little League on...
by Ryan Webb | Jul 1, 2024 | Features
The Eastern Shore of Virginia Habitat for Humanity is picking up steam. It is back to its pre-COVID rate of two houses a year, with house number 53 completed in February of this year, and house number 54 expected to be finished in September. The foundation for house...
by Ryan Webb | Jul 1, 2024 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON Northampton supervisors have approved the county’s fiscal year 2025 budget and set new tax rates that will help pay for more than $23.6 million in general fund expenditures. “This is going to be the lowest tax rate since 2016,” said Supervisor...
by Ryan Webb | Jul 1, 2024 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY The race to be the next mayor of Chincoteague Island is one of several elections that are set for Nov. 5. Voters in Accomack County’s incorporated towns will head to the polls to select mayors and town council members. The deadline to file to be on the...
by Ryan Webb | Jul 1, 2024 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY A crowded field of 11 residents have filed to run for three town council seats in Cape Charles, the polished beachfront vacation spot riven by the issue of short-term rentals and their impacts on the town. Two of the three current council members whose...
by Ryan Webb | Jul 1, 2024 | Headlines
BY JANET BERNOSKY The Accomack County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously June 20 to grant a rezoning request, along with a separate conditional-use permit, for the developer of a massive housing community proposed for an area near Onley and Tasley. The Accomack...
by Ryan Webb | Jul 1, 2024 | Features
BY TED SHOCKLEY For years, every parade in Cape Charles was led by the Cape Charles Volunteer Fire Company’s 1924 American LaFrance fire truck, which town firefighters bought brand-new a century ago. It’s spartan and tiny compared to today’s colossal fire...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 27, 2024 | Obituaries
Mr. Douglas Michael Hopkins, 49, passed away Monday, June 24, 2024, at his home in Exmore. He was born Nov. 25, 1974, in Nassawadox and raised in Onley. Douglas graduated from Nandua High School in 1993. Soon after graduation, he relocated to Greer, S.C., where he...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 27, 2024 | Obituaries
Mr. John Benjamin “Ben” Reinoehl, 92, a resident of Belle Haven, formerly of Bethlehem, Pa., passed away peacefully on June 23, 2024, at Commonwealth Senior Living on the Eastern Shore. He was born Sept. 28, 1931, in Pottsville, Pa., a son to the late John Benjamin...
