by James Ritch | Sep 2, 2022 | Features
A career Navy officer was installed Aug. 26 as the leader of Surface Combat Systems Center, Wallops Island, the Eastern Shore of Virginia’s largest military base. Cmdr. Jason Flanagan is the new commanding officer of the center, which includes administrative offices...
by James Ritch | Aug 25, 2022 | Obituaries
Mr. James Kulp Gehman, 81, husband of Sandra Lee (Blessing) Gehman and a resident of Wallops Island, passed away Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. A native of Barto, Pa., he was born July 15, 1941, a son to the late Abraham...
by James Ritch | May 16, 2022 | Obituaries
Mr. John Joseph Lonergan, 91, of Wallops Island, formerly of Boonton, N.J., passed away on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at his home with his loving family at his side. John was born at 62 Harrison St. in Boonton. He was a member of the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corp....
by James Ritch | Apr 21, 2022 | Headlines
By Carol Vaughn — Rocket Lab announced Tuesday the inaugural launch of its Electron rocket from the Wallops Island spaceport will carry a mission for HawkEye 360, a Virginia-based radio frequency geopspatial analytics provider. The company contracted with Rocket Lab...
by James Ritch | Apr 12, 2022 | Headlines
By Connie Morrison — Rocket Lab founder Peter Beck brought his family from New Zealand to the Eastern Shore for the groundbreaking on a 250,000-square-foot rocket manufacturing complex just outside the entrance to Wallops Island launch facility on a 28-acre parcel...
