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
by Ryan Webb | Oct 12, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Virgil Ellison Watson III departed this life on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, the day after his 78th birthday. He was born on Sept. 28, 1945, in Nassawadox, to the late Columbia E. Scott Watson and the late Virgil E. Watson Jr. Virgil was a Vietnam veteran and proud...
by Ryan Webb | Oct 12, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Maxine Rae (Young) Rasmussen, 81, exited this life on Oct. 7, 2023, at her home in Cape Charles, after a short battle with bladder cancer. She was born on Aug. 27, 1942, to the late Max and Irene Young. Left to carry on her memory are Harold, her husband of 60...
by Ryan Webb | Oct 12, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Linda Hughes Gardner, of Southside Chesconessex, passed away Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, at the place she loved the best, her home with her husband and partner of 51 years, Howard Lee Gardner Jr. Linda is survived by her husband, Howard Gardner Jr., of Southside...
