by James Ritch | Feb 25, 2022 | Headlines
Staff Report — State police responded to a motor vehicle crash Feb. 25, at approximately 4:51 a.m., involving an overturned tractor-trailer, in Northampton County. The crash occurred southbound Lankford Highway (Route 13), 0.2 mi north of Bayford road in Nassawadox,...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – When the Northampton school board held a public hearing Tuesday on its search for a new superintendent, parents and other community members learned that the process to hire a superintendent, as determined by state law and the Virginia School...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Accomack’s Board of Supervisors will continue discussing the 2023 budget Monday, Feb. 28, at 5 p.m., in Accomac, after hearing from 15 people at a town hall meeting Wednesday. There will be no public comment at Monday’s session. The town hall was to...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Northampton schools are at risk of having to turn down more than $667,000 in state funding because the local match required is so high, the school division’s proposed fiscal year 2023 budget would reach a deficit of $1.4 million. Northampton...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — The Chincoteague Town Council at a workshop meeting Thursday, Feb. 17, discussed an agreement for Chincoteague Sunset Bay’s sewage facilities to be transferred to the Hampton Roads Service District. A letter of intent for Chincoteague Sunset LLC to...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — The Accomack County Board of Supervisors at the Feb. 16 meeting sent a proposed ordinance about using recreational vehicles for habitation back to the Department of Planning for possible changes. The board voted to continue the matter after...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — Gerald and Polly Boyd returned to the Eastern Shore, where Gerald grew up, in 2014 after a lifetime spent working for civil rights, social justice, and individual empowerment. Still, the couple, married since 1969, did not come back to retire. Polly,...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Features
By Stefanie Jackson – Arcadia High School has created an educational environment that encourages its former students to return as teachers, as four young adults demonstrated during a recent interview with the Eastern Shore Post. The teachers, who are African American,...
by James Ritch | Feb 24, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Children’s Harbor and Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce officials cut a ribbon Friday to officially recognize the upcoming opening of Children’s Harbor Eastern Shore The facility, in the former Fairgrounds Restaurant near Onancock, is not yet open —...
