by Ryan Webb | Jun 22, 2023 | Legal Ads
by Ted Shockley | Jun 21, 2023 | Headlines
Heavy rain and strong wind continued Wednesday on the Eastern Shore, flooding roads, toppling trees, and halting the harvest of crops including wheat and potatoes. Wind gusts reached 60 miles per hour around 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel,...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Headlines
An Accomack County man was fatally injured on Saturday, June 17, in a single-vehicle crash. Stevie Justice, 56, of Mappsville, was ejected from the vehicle during the incident, state police said. At 9:06 p.m., state police responded to a motor vehicle crash on...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Sports
BY JIMMY SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Northampton returned to play in the Virginia High School League Class 1 boys soccer championship game for the second consecutive year. But this year, the team brought home the big trophy. The Yellow Jackets defeated...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Headlines
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post —Since Virginia was first colonized in the 1600s, it has lost around 45% to 50% of its wetlands, and nonprofits like The Nature Conservancy are striving to save what remains. Since 1995, the conservancy, a global nonprofit...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Features
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — When work began on the John H. Tarr Bay to Beach Trail, leaders aimed to provide a safe connection between downtown Chincoteague and Assateague Island. The town will celebrate those leaders, particularly John H. “Jack” Tarr — who...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Opinion
To the editor: I write in response to the letter to the editor in the June 9 edition of the Eastern Shore Post, “Billboard is in poor taste,” wherein the self-proclaimed God-fearing author decried the Historic Palace Theatre’s billboard near the Kiptopeke Elementary...
