by James Ritch | Jul 14, 2022 | Headlines
By Stefanie Jackson – Last week, around the July Fourth holiday, a break in a fishing net caused thousands of dead menhaden to wash up onshore in Silver Beach, and even though the beach has since been cleaned up, Northampton County residents were still left with the...
by James Ritch | Jul 11, 2022 | Headlines
By Connie Morrison – Residents of Silver Beach are reeling from the stench of thousands of rotting fish carcasses that are washing onto shore and they say Omega Protein’s menhaden fishing is to blame. “Boats were so close to shore which is troublesome as our waters...
by James Ritch | Jun 15, 2022 | Obituaries
Mrs. Sally Perkins, 79, wife of Bill Perkins and a resident of Silver Beach, passed away Wednesday, June 8, 2022, at her residence. A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Faris Feland and the late Clara Virginia Abry Feland. She was a retired...
by James Ritch | Mar 22, 2022 | Obituaries
Mr. Melvin Gilbert Nuckols was born Nov. 16, 1929, to Joseph Franklin Nuckols Sr. and Ruth Elizabeth Gilbert Nuckols in the Kempsville area of Tidewater, Va., in what is now Virginia Beach, the third of three children after siblings Liz and Frank. He left high school...
by James Ritch | Oct 13, 2021 | Obituaries
Mr. Thomas Wilhelm Plaschke, 82, husband of Elaine Lucey Plaschke and a resident of Silver Beach, passed away Monday, Sept. 27, 2021, at The Citadel at Nassawadox in Nassawadox. A native of Point Pleasant, N.J., he was the son of the late William Plaschke and the late...
