by James Ritch | Jul 25, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Accomack County Public Schools may soon provide free breakfast and lunch for every student through a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s food and nutrition service agency. The program is Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), and it’s...
by James Ritch | Jul 18, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Accomack Airport could see an increase in traffic if commercial overflow from Wallops Island is sent there, Chairwoman Stella Rohde, of the Accomack Economic Development Authority, told members of the county board of supervisors Wednesday....
by James Ritch | Jun 26, 2019 | Features
Story and photo by Stefanie Jackson – Audrey Furness is retiring after 36 years serving on the Accomack County School Board, and very little of that experience has been negative, she says. “Our children, we have to do everything we can for them,” she said in an...
by James Ritch | Jun 20, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — The victim of an alleged abduction in Greenbackville says her boyfriend, who was arrested for the crime, did not kidnap her. On Monday, Vermelle Tontrese Moore, 18, told Judge Gordon Vincent, of Accomack General District Court, that Jerry...
by James Ritch | Jun 20, 2019 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Accomack high school graduations may no longer have valedictorian or salutatorian speeches as of 2022, because the two top-ranking students may no longer be acknowledged. “We’ve had parents, students, counselors, administrators” ask that...
