by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — A Chincoteague resort featuring floating bungalows is voluntarily closing for the season after it had been operating without required permits from the Virginia Department of Health. BluFin Bungalows & Marina opened in late...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Features
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Northampton County Public Schools’ new choir and theater instructor brings to the Eastern Shore a high level of achievement in the study, performance, and teaching of music, as well as a connection to a resident who is a...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Headlines
BY CLARA VAUGHN, Eastern Shore Post — A Savageville poultry farm is poised to resume operations, despite objections from over a dozen neighbors. The Accomack County Board of Zoning Appeals in a 3-2 vote granted exceptions to the county’s poultry ordinance that allow...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 11, 2023 | Headlines
Saturday, Sept. 9, was a big day for two Virginia Lottery players. One won $1 million in that night’s Powerball drawing, and the other won $1 million after taxes in the same night’s Bank a Million drawing. The question now is: Who are Virginia’s newest big winners?...
by Ted Shockley | Sep 5, 2023 | Opinion
Arguably the most important issue on the Eastern Shore of Virginia right now is a shortage of housing stock for all income levels. Housing for middle-income earners like teachers, first responders, and healthcare workers — sometimes called workforce housing — is so...