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2 months ago | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Ted Shockley |Betsy Byrd Fitch
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post —Northampton County is getting its own FM radio station — complete with an Exmore broadcast tower, a lighthouse logo, and a name that zeroes in on Cape Charles. The station, 96.9 The Cape, will begin broadcasting at noon on Saturday, Feb. 1. But Mike Szczechura, the sales manager of the station, WCCZ, said the station’s weekday radio personalities will debut on Monday, Feb. 3.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Janet Bernosky
BY JANET BERNOSKY, Eastern Shore Post —Pocomoke Mayor Todd J. Nock used a city-owned vehicle to travel on Jan. 3 to the Washington, D.C. installation ceremony of Maryland’s newest U.S. senator before driving north of Baltimore to visit family and spend the night. Nock returned the city vehicle to Pocomoke the next day after attending a Baltimore Ravens NFL football game, but Nock said he did not use the vehicle to get to the game.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban
Lucas Allen Fussell, 42, of Onley, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Dec. 18, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to two counts of distribution of child pornography. Judge Rudolph Contreras scheduled a sentencing hearing for May 6. According to court papers, between Dec. 20, 2023, and Feb.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Ted Shockley
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post —Events commemorating the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will take place on Monday, Jan. 20, on the Eastern Shore. The Accomack NAACP chapter will host a memorial service honoring and celebrating King on Jan. 20, at 10 a.m., at Macedonia AME Church in Accomac.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Ted Shockley
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post —Jasper Parks, of Bloxom, had never seen snow in his 2 1/2 years. Maybe he’d seen it on television or in books. But never the yard. So when he awakened Monday, Jan. 6, to a winter wonderland, the only child of Steven and Ashlin Parks was giddy as he looked through the window. “He was just staring and laughing,” said his father.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Stefanie Jackson Bowmann
BY STEFANIE BOWMANNEastern Shore PostThe Cape Charles Town Council, days before Christmas 2024, changed its mind on the ordinance it had passed in the previous month to regulate short-term vacation rental homes. “Why the total about-face from your decision just a few weeks ago?” said resident Susan Burger in a written public comment that was read into the record on Dec. 19.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Janet Bernosky
BY JANET BERNOSKYEastern Shore PostFor the first time in more than two decades, Evelyn Shotwell will have nothing but time on her hands — and that’s something she is very much looking forward to. For as long as she can remember, her own personal calendar has revolved around a robust schedule of community events as executive director of the Chincoteague Chamber of Commerce and Certified Visitor Center. Shotwellretired from that position effective January 3.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Janet Bernosky
BY JANET BERNOSKY, Eastern Shore PostRocket Lab USA, Inc., is prepared to win the space race with its first Neutron rocket launch from the Wallops Flight Facility scheduled in the next year, according to Jennifer Goodrum, the company’s Director of State and LocalOperations. Goodrum provided a mission update in a presentation before the Accomack County Board of Supervisors at its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Nov.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban |Janet Bernosky
BY JANET BERNOSKY, Eastern Shore PostAccomack County needs to reimburse Norfolk Southern railroad for a glitch that erroneously resulted in the railroad paying personal property taxes on 48 trucks and sport-utility vehicles that were never kept in the county. Norfolk Southern also paid taxes on the vehicles as “rolling stock,” which exempts them from being taxed as personal property, said Mike Mason, county administrator, during the Accomack County Board of Supervisors meeting on Wednesday, Nov.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
easternshorepost.com | Sarah Barban
More than $581,607 in matching grant funds will be awarded to 108 small businesses, destination marketing organizations, downtown business associations, and chambers of commerce as part of the Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Microbusiness Marketing Leverage Program. This funding program is designed to leverage local marketing dollars with matching state funds to increase visitation and traveler spending in the offseason.
