by Ryan Webb | Jan 10, 2024 | Features
by Ted Shockley | Jan 9, 2024 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore First — The Nature Conservancy recently completed a $1.4 million oyster reef project with the help of nearly 160 volunteers, mostly Eastern Shore residents, who logged nearly 2,200 volunteer hours on the project. “It’s really, really...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 9, 2024 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Peach Street in Cape Charles will remain closed to traffic likely until the end of February, when the third phase of construction of the town’s multi-use trail is expected to be completed. Town Manager John Hozey called the...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 8, 2024 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — The Cape Charles Historic District Review Board on Wednesday, Jan. 3, approved an application to move an entire house across town so a new bank can be built on the parcel. The home, built in 1896, had been “butchered” and...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 8, 2024 | Sports
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Ron Killmon, the Onancock High School graduate and celebrated multi-sport athlete who played semipro football in Norfolk before coaching state championship high school football and baseball teams in Hampton Roads, died Sunday,...
by Ryan Webb | Jan 4, 2024 | Obituaries
Mrs. Frances Wise Killmon Mears, 96, of Carrollton, and formerly of Painter, passed away peacefully at the home of her daughter, Yvonne, on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2023. Born on Jan. 22, 1927, in Onley, she was the daughter of the late Walter Wise Killmon and the late...
by Ryan Webb | Jan 4, 2024 | Obituaries
Mr. George William Early III, 83, husband of the late Bertha Mae Wessells and the late Dorothy Ruth Early and a resident of Cape Charles, passed away Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023, at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. A native of Virginia, he was the son of...
by Ryan Webb | Jan 4, 2024 | Obituaries
Mrs. Bonnie Ruth Laird Landon, 79, devout Christian, devoted wife and mother, and loving neighbor and friend to all, passed away Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. A lifelong resident of Tangier Island, Bonnie was born June 4, 1944, to the late Richard “Dick” Laird and Margaret...
by Ryan Webb | Jan 4, 2024 | Obituaries
Mr. Charles William Volkmann Jr., 95, of Richmond, passed away Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, at Shore Health & Rehabilitation Center in Parksley. Born Sept. 27, 1928, in Richmond, he was the son of the late Charles William Volkmann Sr. and the late Lossie Wilhelmina...
