by James Ritch | Dec 22, 2021 | Features
By Connie Morrison — Onancock is definitely a hot spot for Christmas lights. This Christmas town is incandescent. Entering Onancock on Market Street from U.S. Route 13, it’s hard to miss the glow of an entire block on Hall Street, on the left...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — A New York City native is one of the Eastern Shore’s newest residents, at age 101. Palma Gervasi, who will be 102 in August, recently moved to Commonwealth Senior Living at the Eastern Shore, in Onancock. Gervasi, a vivacious centenarian who still...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Features
By Carol Vaughn — Baines is back. As a champion kickboxer and an Accomack County Sheriff’s deputy, Charles Baines, 49, is used to facing challenges. Baines works at the Accomack County Jail and doing crisis intervention at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital. It was...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Features
Bronze sculptors hundreds of miles apart practice the art of an ancient craft. By Martha Wessells Steger Special to the Eastern Shore Post Whenever I arrive at an out-of-state destination and discover an Eastern Shore connection, I conclude that all roads must lead to...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Parksley Mayor Frank Russell said he will contact ANEC about repairing non-functioning streetlights in town, after a resident during the public comment period at the Dec. 6 meeting said a light at the corner of Staunton Avenue and Mary Street has...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Onancock officials held a public hearing on an application to rezone 7 Hartman Avenue for multifamily residential use. The current owners, the Eastern Shore Coalition Against Domestic Violence, uses the property for multifamily use, but as a group...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Features
By Connie Morrison – Let your inner child delight at 20190 Seaside Road, where a winter wonderland awaits, packed with more than 70 inflatables. Proceed south on Seaside Road, turning right on Sunnyside, to 5317 Sunnyside Road. Terry Thomas’ ...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Accomack school board at its early December meeting heard a teacher’s firsthand account of the Virginia Preschool Initiative (VPI) and how the program for at-risk 4-year-olds is implemented in Accomack’s pre-K classrooms. “If you come into a...
by James Ritch | Dec 21, 2021 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – The Northampton planning commission, at the direction of the board of supervisors, has opened a discussion on affordable housing and promoting it through changes to the county zoning ordinance. Dixon Leatherbury, chairman of the board of...
