by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Opinion
To the editor: Kudos to Walmart. Since I’m old and lazy and still a bit COVID shy, I usually pick up groceries. Food Lion puts them in paper bags but Walmart used plastic. I wrote Walmart about it and just noticed they have an option when you order online to use your...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 20, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Plans to move the recreational beach at Assateague Island National Seashore have been decades in the making. The project is one step closer to construction, thanks to $17.7 million in federal funding announced this week. The money...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 16, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — Community organizers will hold a vigil for Erika Bailey on Saturday, June 17, more than two months after she was hit and killed by a vehicle on Nocks Landing Road near Atlantic. Members of the public wishing to attend should meet...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 16, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post When Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, enslaved people there received the news of their freedom. It was more than two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 15, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Verna Mae Rager, 92, wife of the late Albert Lewis Rager and a resident of Onancock, passed away on Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Commonwealth Senior Living in Onancock. Born in Bridgeton, N.J., she was the daughter of the late Clifford C. Davis and the late Marion...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 15, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Valena Boney Gibb, 97, wife of the late Joseph Lester Gibb and former resident of Onancock, passed away on May 20, 2023, at her home in Catonsville, Md. Born in Sampson County, N.C., she was the daughter of the late Odist Boney and the late Mary Edna Caison...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 15, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Stan Sieja, a familiar face on Delmarva, was lifted by angels from his easy chair in northeastern Wisconsin on May 22, after a long day of farming corn. Stan was 75. His life revolved around travel adventures, agricultural flying, his Catholic faith, and the...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 15, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. John Madison Hall, 73, of Moultrie, Ga., passed away Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at his home. Mr. Hall was a former director of The Nature Conservancy’s Virginia Coast Reserve, headquartered on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. A funeral service was held Saturday, June...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 15, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Roger Albert LaPlant, 70, husband of Kate Evans LaPlant and resident of Melfa, passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 8, 2023, at his home. Born on Nov. 4, 1952, in East Hartford, Conn., he was the son of the late Edward H. LaPlant and Marjorie E. LaPlant. Roger...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 15, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Gordon Eyre Rippon, 85, husband of Olivia Oakley Rippon, and a resident of Townsend, passed away Thursday, June 8, 2023, at Shore Health and Rehabilitation Center, Parksley. A native of Cape Charles, he was the son of the late Severn Eyre Rippon and the late...
