by James Ritch | Jun 26, 2022 | Features
Story and Photos by Stefanie Jackson – The 23rd annual Juneteenth festival in Exmore on Saturday, June 18, celebrated the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Texas finally heard the news that they had gained their freedom, more than two years after the...
by James Ritch | Jun 24, 2022 | Headlines
Staff Report — Two boaters who were reported overdue after failing to return to Hampton were located safely Friday approximately 80 miles east of Chincoteague. The overdue boaters, Yanni Nikopoulos and Dale Jones, contacted watchstanders in the Coast Guard Sector...
by James Ritch | Jun 24, 2022 | Features
By Adolphus Ames – The Cape Charles Museum added an air force exhibit this past spring. The exhibit honors the Cape Charles Air Force Station located in lower Northampton County. The station began as a coastal defense artillery instillation named Fort Winslow in 1941...
by James Ritch | Jun 24, 2022 | Opinion
Dear Editor: I just wanted to say there are some really good people left in the world and we met one of them recently on our ride through Accomack County. We suffered a flat tire near Keller in the rainstorm and a Mr. Marshall Parks, from Parksley, stopped to help us....
by James Ritch | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
By David Martin — Our internet tubes yielded some good facts about fishing — but you should’ve seen the ones that got away. Huge! Archeological discoveries show that humans have been eating fish, and presumably fishing, for hundreds of thousands of years. Means to...
by James Ritch | Jun 23, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Members of the public got a chance to see inside a new emergency shelter for domestic violence survivors during an open house Tuesday at the Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence campus in Onancock. A $1.7 million capital campaign to...
by James Ritch | Jun 23, 2022 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Earlier this month, in a rare move for a Northampton County board member or commissioner, the Northampton planning commission’s acting chair, Glen Anders, singled out one citizen and asked him for a written copy of his personal recommendations on...
by James Ritch | Jun 23, 2022 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — Saving Eastern Shore history has become a focus of community support for the new regional library being built in Parksley. Hiring the library system’s first archivist plays a large role in preserving that history. Archivist Christopher Pote, 45,...
by James Ritch | Jun 23, 2022 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Del. Rob. Bloxom announced at the June meeting of the Eastern Shore Regional Housing Coalition that the state budget had been finalized and included funding for sewer projects in both Accomack and Northampton counties. The Virginia budget for the...
by James Ritch | Jun 23, 2022 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Accomack County Public Schools operations and management staff at Tuesday night’s school board meeting presented an overview of the school division’s 2022 safety audit and discussed next steps, such as coordinating with local law enforcement to...
