by Ted Shockley | Jun 14, 2026 | News
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — There were many military airplane crashes on the Eastern Shore in the 1940s and 1950s, some of them involving fatalities. On May 31, 1943, three planes crashed on the Eastern Shore that “fell while in flight formation,” the...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 14, 2026 | News
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Services finally had concluded at the Presbyterian church on a bright spring day. I was 5 or 6 years old. I yawned and slouched out the door, into the noon daylight, and past the older men, who began to pack Sir Walter Raleigh...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 14, 2026 | News
— 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., free public tours of the Lady Maryland — 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kids Zone open — 10 a.m. to noon, Burnham Guides Onancock Creek history kayak tour — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Demonstration at the Samuel D. Outlaw Blacksmith Shop — 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Artisan...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2026 | News
Northampton High School won its third Virginia High School League Class 1 state soccer championship in four years on Saturday, June 13, shutting out Galax High School, 6-0, in a game played at Roanoke College. The Yellow Jackets swept through the state playoffs,...
by Ted Shockley | Jun 13, 2026 | News
BY JIM RITCH, Eastern Shore Post — A woman will appear in General District court on a class two misdemeanor charge after letting her 8-year-old child drive a golf cart in Cape Charles, said Jim Pruitt, chief of police. Even though the woman sat next to the child, “she...
