by Ted Shockley | Oct 16, 2023 | Features
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Shore First — Beach Market in Cape Charles is more than just a market. All of the fresh meat and seafood sold there also can be prepared on site — for a dine-in experience or for takeout. All of the beer and wine sold on premises also can be...
by Ted Shockley | Oct 16, 2023 | Sports
BY JIM RITCH, Eastern Shore Post — A Bay Creek member and resident, Rusty Gates, defied odds in the millions to one and scored two holes-in-one during a single day of golf on Friday, Oct. 6. Word spread so quickly after the second hole-in-one that “you could hear...
by Ted Shockley | Oct 16, 2023 | Features
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Scientists spent last week planting millions of seeds to replenish underwater grasses absent from the Eastern Shore’s seaside shallows for decades. The effort is part of the world’s largest seagrass restoration project, which is...
by Ted Shockley | Oct 16, 2023 | Features
Maggie Molera Stodghill has been named chairman of the 2023 United Way of Virginia’s Eastern Shore fundraising campaign. Since 1991, the United Way of Virginia’s Eastern Shore has raised over $8 million. These funds are used to improve the quality of the life for...
by Ted Shockley | Oct 15, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Tevya Griffin, who lives in Williamsburg but is from Northampton County, was visiting her grandmother, the late Annette Marie Williams, in 2009. They went for a drive in Cape Charles and passed the former elementary school...
by Ted Shockley | Oct 15, 2023 | Opinion
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — It is probably time to update the Eastern Shore Racial Relations Scorecard, a running tally I keep of real and perceived offenses. Some folks use their spare time watching “The Price is Right” on television, or posting...
by Ted Shockley | Oct 15, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Retiring Accomack County Circuit Court Clerk Samuel Cooper is accepting the blame for a state audit of his office that showed “numerous deficiencies” in bookkeeping and billing totaling tens of thousands of dollars. Cooper is...
by Ted Shockley | Oct 15, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Parksley has set strict guidelines for food trucks in town but will check with an attorney before enforcing the rules on a Haitian food trailer operating within town limits. The town council during its meeting Monday, Oct. 9,...
by Ryan Webb | Oct 13, 2023 | Features