by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Headlines, Uncategorized
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Independence Day on the Eastern Shore evokes images of beach days, boating, patriotic parades, and Popsicles melting on a hot day. But in Accomac, the issue of ice pops has become a heated debate. The topic causing the fireworks:...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Long before he decided to run for election, Charles Elliott, the mayor of Wachapreague, was using his people skills to perform and make connections in the country music industry — and his dream is finally becoming a reality....
by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Greg DeYoung has stepped down as the chief of Community Volunteer Fire Company in Exmore to become Northampton County’s new director of emergency services. The town of Exmore honored DeYoung on Monday, June, 5 for his decades...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Cape Charles’ Citizens for Central Park celebrates a decade of summer music with its 2023 free concert series from Saturday, June 24, through Saturday, Sept. 9. The concert series is “the largest and most successful one on the...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Accomack County Public Schools’ assistant superintendent of instruction has been appointed by the school board as its new superintendent. The announcement that Rhonda Hall will accept the position was made Wednesday morning by the...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Friends and family donning pale pink T-shirts with the “Justice for Erika” slogan gathered outside the Mary N. Smith Cultural Center on Saturday, June 17. More than 70 then convoyed on U.S. Route 13 to the site on Nocks Landing...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 26, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — “Save Our School” signs have adorned Accomac for over a year, and the Accomack County School Board is decisively doing that. The board voted to pursue restoring and remodeling the former Accomac Primary School for use as a school...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 23, 2023 | Legal Ads
by Ryan Webb | Jun 22, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Kathleen McKessor, 87, passed away Saturday, June 17, 2023, at Shore Health and Rehabilitation Center in Parksley. Kathie had been a resident of Melfa for the past 22 years. Kathie was born on Jan. 10, 1936, in Long Beach, Calif., to the late Charles Eugene...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 22, 2023 | Headlines
A truck ripped through the guardrail of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel and plunged into the waters below on the afternoon of Thursday, June 22, snarling northbound traffic and prompting a search for the truck’s driver. Social media photographs posted by drivers...
