by Ted Shockley | Jun 14, 2023 | Headlines
Accomack County Treasurer James A. Lilliston has announced he will seek re-election for the office of treasurer of Accomack County in the Nov. 7 election. Lilliston has worked in the treasurer’s office since May 2005 and won his first election in November 2019. ...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Sports
BY RYAN WEBB, Shore First The weather is warming up and you know what that means. It soon will be the season for beach days, cookouts, and cornhole! A popular pastime on the Eastern Shore, cornhole is a game played with two sets of four bags, two boards, and two to...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY RYAN WEBB, Eastern Shore Post If you’re from here or you’ve been here long enough, you know that the Eastern Shore is home to many uniquely named places that can be tricky for outsiders to pronounce. In the April 2023 issue of Shore First, I covered how to say...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY CURTIS BADGER, Shore First columnist In February 1779, during the American Revolution, the British made a raid on Joynes Neck, east of Drummondtown, now named Accomac. It was more of a harassment than a skirmish, but in making the attack the British committed a...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2023 | Features
BY KIRK MARINER, Shore First columnist Chincoteague’s tourism is not a 20th-century invention. The island’s first hotel arose well over a hundred years ago and did a thriving business long before the word “tourism” entered the vocabulary of the Eastern Shore. Joseph...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Headlines
A Saxis man pleaded guilty on Monday, June 12, toviolating the Lacey Act related to his illegal harvest of striped bass. According to court documents, Keith J. Martin, 52, was a commercial fisherman licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia to harvest striped bass....
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Features
By Laura Davis, Eastern Shore of Virginia food columnist — In the spring of 2019 I visited an estate sale on Chincoteague Island. Upon entering I could tell this was my kind of people — beautiful kitchen equipment, lovely nautically themed linens, and vintage Shore...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Features
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post When the Museum of Chincoteague Island announced a fundraiser to purchase and preserve the Beebe Ranch, thousands answered its call. The museum is close to its $625,000 goal to save the ranch, which was Misty of Chincoteague’s...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
To the editor: On my drive from Capeville to Food Lion near Cape Charles, I was a bit shocked to see the latest billboard for the Historic Palace Theatre’s “Films That Move” event. The billboard features two women in their underwear in what I consider a suggestive...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — When Samuel H. Cooper Jr. started his career, he planned to be a funeral service provider. More than 40 years later, he is retiring after four decades of service as Accomack County’s Clerk of Circuit Court. “It’s been a wonderful...
