by Ted Shockley | Dec 12, 2023 | Features
The holidays are in full swing here on the Eastern Shore! With Christmas parades lining our downtown streets, festive lights all about, church services, and school performances, we are so fortunate to live in a place that shines so brightly this time of year, aren’t...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 11, 2023 | Opinion
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — NEW TACTIC TED: It is obvious that the speeding tickets issued by the Eastville town police officers aren’t working. If the tickets and millions of dollars in fines they generated were working, we would actually see a reduction...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 11, 2023 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — State Delegate Robert Bloxom on Thursday, Dec. 7, declined to say whom he would support to be the Eastern Shore’s next circuit judge despite a near-unanimous vote by local attorneys against appointing retiring state Sen. Lynwood...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 11, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Chincoteague is poised to give Sunset Bay’s sewage treatment facility to a regional wastewater service provider, opening the door for more downtown businesses to hook up to a public sewer system. A circuit court judge on Nov. 11...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 11, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Construction is underway on Cemetery Road and Lee Street in and around Belle Haven. The project has been decades in the making and will improve the turtleback road while adding paved, 4-foot-wide shoulders to the Lee Street...
by Ted Shockley | Dec 7, 2023 | Headlines
Two Hampton Roads men were arrested after a string of five robberies in Northampton, Accomack, and Pocomoke City ended Thursday morning in a high-speed chase and crash in Exmore. Christopher Orbeta, 28, of Chesapeake, and Brandon Gibson, 31, of Norfolk, have been...
by Ryan Webb | Dec 7, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Priscilla (Ora) King Richmond, age 83, formerly of Latrobe, Pa., went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. She was active in Exmore Baptist Church and a member of the Eastern Shore Emmaus community. Priscilla was a prayer warrior, avid reader,...
by Ryan Webb | Dec 7, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Robert Brooks Thomas II, better known as Bobby, 73, and a resident of Belle Haven, passed away Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, at his residence. A native of Exmore, he was the son of the late Robert Brooks Thomas and the late Betty Marsh Thomas. He was retired director of...
by Ryan Webb | Dec 7, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Sharon Kay Kool, 84, of Melfa, passed away on Oct. 24, 2023, surrounded by family at her home. She was born on April 1, 1939, in Muskegon, Mich. Sharon is survived by her beloved husband, John Kool; and their children, Renae (Dick) Feyer, Kristi (Jim) Harris,...
