by Ryan Webb | Mar 25, 2024 | Sports
After a year-long hiatus, the Northampton Yellow Jackets varsity baseball team made a triumphant return to the field on Friday, March 15, securing an 11-8 victory against Charles City. Tanner Feltes emerged as a standout player, leading the team in batting, going...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 25, 2024 | Pocomoke City
BY JANET BERNOSKY, Eastern Shore Post — Pocomoke City Mayor Todd J. Nock urged residents to remain vigilant and continue to report suspicious activity to proper authorities in their neighborhoods. Nock made the statements after the Pocomoke City Council’s meeting on...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 25, 2024 | Opinion
BY J. SPENCER MORGAN, Accomack County Commonwealth’s Attorney — Recently I have had the opportunity to speak to a number of school groups with my colleagues, Accomack County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Jason Campbell, Director Erica Lawson of the 2A Court Services Unit, and...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 25, 2024 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post —- The New Road Community Development Group, of Exmore, has been awarded three state grants totaling nearly $3.7 million toward the cost of its Legacy Project’s second phase, which will consist of an additional 47 affordable...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 25, 2024 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Accomack County will form a group — possibly with the Virginia Department of Transportation — to address its stopped-up ditches and drainage woes. Members of the Accomack Board of Supervisors during a meeting Wednesday, March 20,...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 25, 2024 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Northampton County supervisors should supply at least $1 million more toward the cost of public education in the next fiscal year to comply with a state funding formula, according to the school superintendent. The formula “is...
by Ted Shockley | Mar 25, 2024 | Headlines
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post— The Accomack County Board of Supervisors is proposing to lower its real estate tax rate by 11 cents to equalize a 24% jump in real estate reassessments. “You will not be receiving a 24% increase in your taxes,” said Board Chairman...
by Ryan Webb | Mar 21, 2024 | Obituaries
Mrs. Fay Reynolds Doughty, 92, wife of the late Clifford Doughty and a resident of Cheriton, passed away Sunday, March 17, 2024, at Commonwealth Senior Living at the Eastern Shore in Onancock. A native of Oyster, she was the daughter of the late Risdon J. Reynolds and...
by Ryan Webb | Mar 21, 2024 | Obituaries
Mrs. Frances Riggin Underhill, 93, passed away on Sunday, March 17, 2024, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock. She was a resident of Wilsonia Neck, near Machipongo, the devoted wife of 66 years of the late Edmond Arthur Underhill Jr. and the daughter of...
