Eastern Shore Post

June 3, 2026

The voice of Accomack and Northampton counties on Virginia’s Eastern Shore

Helen Mapp

Mrs. Helen Drexel Young Mapp, 86, of Cape Charles RFD, passed away Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onancock. She was the daughter of the late Nimrod Wescott Young and the late Martha Carpenter Young. She was the wife of the late Alvin...
Cape Charles Receives Offer to Buy Its Sewer Plant

Cape Charles Receives Offer to Buy Its Sewer Plant

By Stefanie Jackson – Cape Charles has received an unsolicited offer from private company Aqua Virginia to purchase the town’s water and sewer plants and relieve Cape Charles of $5.6 million in utility debt. Aqua Virginia is part of the larger Aqua America, which...
Richard Malcolm Leal

Richard Malcolm Leal

Mr. Richard Malcolm Leal, 88, of Cape Charles, passed from this life at Sentara Hospice House Virginia Beach Monday, Sept. 28, 2020, after a brief illness. Born in Carshalton, Surrey, England in 1932, Richard was a child of wartime Britain, surviving the Blitz and...