by Ted Shockley | Sep 12, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Shore First — Homeschooling doesn’t have to mean Mom or Dad is isolated at home with the kids every day or that the kids never get to interact with peers. Just ask Jordan Dail, a director for the homeschooling group Eastern Shore Classical...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 12, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Shore First — The biggest fundraiser of the year for Cape Charles Christian School, the Crabby Blues Festival, returns for its 11th year this month. This year’s festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 16, from 2 to 7 p.m., at Cape Charles Central...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 12, 2023 | Features
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — It was a remarkable sight: A long line of people formed during the morning hours at a Cape Charles business, waiting to have a turn at the counter. It was a scene that repeated itself frequently at The Bakery on Mason, which...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — A Chincoteague resort featuring floating bungalows is voluntarily closing for the season after it had been operating without required permits from the Virginia Department of Health. BluFin Bungalows & Marina opened in late...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Northampton County Public Schools’ new choir and theater instructor brings to the Eastern Shore a high level of achievement in the study, performance, and teaching of music, as well as a connection to a resident who is a...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — A Savageville poultry farm is poised to resume operations, despite objections from over a dozen neighbors. The Accomack County Board of Zoning Appeals in a 3-2 vote granted exceptions to the county’s poultry ordinance that allow...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Headlines
Saturday, Sept. 9, was a big day for two Virginia Lottery players. One won $1 million in that night’s Powerball drawing, and the other won $1 million after taxes in the same night’s Bank a Million drawing. The question now is: Who are Virginia’s newest big winners?...
by Ryan Webb | Sep 7, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Michael Bernstein was born Oct. 29, 1947, to Jacob and Mary Bernstein in Nassawadox and raised in Chincoteague. He graduated from Chincoteague High School in 1965 and a year later enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. Michael served as a photography lab technician with...
by Ryan Webb | Sep 7, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Timothy Wayne Smith, 68, of Atlantic, passed peacefully in his sleep on Aug. 19, 2023, at his residence. He was born in Nassawadox on Dec. 7, 1954, to the late Jacob Harry Smith and Mary J. (Bartee) Smith. He was an honorary member of the Atlantic Volunteer Fire...
