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...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 12, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — A new regional library building is ready for occupation, but the timeline to move in and open the facility in Parksley remains unknown. Accomack County, which owns the facility, and the Eastern Shore Public Library Board of...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 8, 2023 | Obituaries
Mrs. Barbara Ann Ross Folk, 77, of Charlotte, N.C., went to be with the Lord on June 5, 2023. A gathering of family and friends will take place at Gaskin Funeral Home, Friday, June 9 from 6:30 until 8 p.m. She leaves behind her husband, James Michael “Mike” Folk;...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 8, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Terry Howard, 85, husband of Judy Ann Howard and resident of Chincoteague, passed away at the home of his son, Michael, in Parksley on June 5, 2023, with his family by his side. Born on April 2, 1938, on Chincoteague Island, he was the son of the late William Lee...
by Ryan Webb | Jun 8, 2023 | Obituaries
Mr. Marshall Broughton Parks, 54, of Melfa, passed away Monday, June 5, 2023, at his home. Born March 15, 1969, in Nassawadox, he was the son of John L. “Jack” Parks Jr., of Melfa, and the late Roxanna Marshall Parks. A native of Parksley, he graduated from Arcadia...
