by James Ritch | Sep 10, 2019 | Opinion
Dear Editor: This is in response to an article in an earlier edition about the sale of Chincoteague KOA and Maui Jack’s water park (“Quail Run and Maddox Campground Sell”). This transaction is a deepening of the relationship between Blue Water Development and Sun...
by James Ritch | Sep 3, 2019 | Sports
By Bill Sterling Special to the Eastern Shore Post The football season is underway on the Eastern Shore with local schools playing their opening games in the final days of August before the first day of school. That early start to the season is just one of several...
by James Ritch | Jul 18, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — During the Civil War, the seafood trade in the north kept Chincoteague Islanders from joining the Confederates. According to www.islandmanor.com,“Oysters were such an essential part of the Chincoteague Island’s early economy (that)...
by James Ritch | Jul 3, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — An island group is out to prove famous cat lover Ernest Hemingway wrong. “One cat just leads to another,” the Nobel laureate writer once said. But that’s not the case on Chincoteague where 129 feral cats were trapped, spayed, and neutered...
by James Ritch | Jul 3, 2019 | Features
With Isabella Bono-Evans, Documented by Krystle Bono — It was opening weekend at the Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Company’s annual carnival, so we fueled up on some local eats and headed out to the grounds to enjoy the festivities. Like most kids, Isabella...
