by James Ritch | Nov 26, 2019 | Opinion
Dear Editor: Thank you to all who lent me support, both as a candidate and in the effort to have an elected school board. An especially big thank you to the volunteers, who collected over 4,400 signatures to get the referendum on the ballot and all the people (74%)...
by James Ritch | Nov 6, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Sixteen-year veteran clerk James A. Lilliston Sr. of the Accomack treasurer’s office obtained two feats Tuesday at the polls. He will be the next Accomack treasurer and the first black man to hold the position. Lilliston received 7,449...
by James Ritch | Nov 6, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Janet Martin-Turner is back. The former school board member, who fought to get an elected school board for Accomack, received the most votes in District 7 and was returned to the post she once held as an appointed member. Martin-Turner...
by James Ritch | Nov 5, 2019 | Headlines
By Linda Cicoira — Calling hundreds of absentee ballots cast for today’s election “suspect,” Accomack County’s Republican Party asked the circuit court to put those ballots aside and not count them until an investigation of the allegations can be completed by...
by James Ritch | Oct 21, 2019 | Opinion
Dear Editor: I’ve known Brandy Custis Childress for many years socially and from when I was a customer at PNC. As part of the Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital Auxiliary executive committee, I was fortunate enough to work with her several years ago when she was a...
