Belle Haven News

BELLE HAVEN -- Hillary Alvare', a Nandua High School senior, has been selected to perform the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in 'The Nutcracker' this year.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Thursday that Northampton County has qualified for $1 million worth of federal stimulus cash to upgrade broadband access along Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Dr. Walt Roll and Dr. Jeanne Roll of Belle Haven have been volunteering at Eastern Shore's Own Inc.

BELLE HAVEN -- The Eastern Shore of Virginia will see the light by the end of the year -- that's when the long-awaited, $6 million fiber backbone that is the core of the local broadband Internet project is scheduled to be turned on.

The Northampton Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution at its November meeting to request the state reclassify Route 602, Cemetery Road, so that it might be eligible for federal road improvement money.

BELLE HAVEN -- Eastern Shore's Own Arts Center will be offering an exciting and new creative writing class entitled Poetry and Lyric Writing with Robert P. Arthur on Tuesdays, beginning Dec.

BELLE HAVEN - Three men were arrested Saturday after police said they broke into a home while armed with sawed-off shotguns, but crashed their car leaving the scene.

Eastern Shore's Own School of Dance has cast Heidi Waldenmaier as Clara, the central character of the ballet, 'The Nutcracker.' Waldenmaier is a 6th grader at Nandua Middle School and has been dancing with ESO for four years.

BELLE HAVEN -- Next week, Dutch artist Carole Boggemann Peirson has started another series of classes on oil painting techniques for everyone who has ever wanted to paint in oils, but doesn't know how to start.

The 56th Fall Antiques Show, sponsored by The Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, begins this weekend at the Moose Lodge in Belle Haven.

Virginia Ann Benton, 68, of Bayview, passed away Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 at her residence.

In these hard economic times, are you wondering if your grandmother's oriental vase, or your grandfather's reading lamp might be worth a bit -- or a lot -- of money? Timothy Smith, of Timothy Smith and Sons Antiques in Onancock, will hold a seminar "Who Needs Stock When You Have Stuff?" on Saturday, Nov.

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BELLE HAVEN --The 56th Fall Antiques Show, sponsored by the Shore Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, will be held Saturday, Nov.

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Eastern Shore's Own Arts Center will host the "Grape Get Down," a wine tasting party, at the Holly Grove Vineyard in Franktown on Saturday, Oct.

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Public radio listeners in northern Accomack County soon will be able to tune in favorite shows like National Public Radio's 'All Things Considered' on Hampton Roads' WHRV-FM 89.5 radio station, thanks to WHRO/WHRV's purchase last week of a new license with a Belle Haven address.

On Saturday, Sept. 26, the Eastern Shore's Own Arts Center's ninth annual Shore Made Music Festival will again bring together families, friends and neighbors on its big lawn in Belle Haven for a music festival that has truly become a wonderful showcase for the musical and artistic denizens of Virginia's Eastern Shore.

BELLE HAVEN -- Therapeutic Interven-tions, a school-based treatment and case management program, has moved to a new location, 15405 Merry Cat Lane, Suite 17B, in Belle Haven, as of July 2009.