Exmore News

Charles Leroy Johnson, 48, of Machipongo pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

Two Northampton County men and an Accomack County resident have been arrested in connection with a robbery police say happened on Nov.

Willie Randall moved to the Eastern Shore 13 years ago and built a house in the waterside community of Butler's Bluff on the Chesapeake Bay.

EASTVILLE -- Mike Henry, the band director for Northampton High School, has announced that the fundraiser that began a month ago to raise money for new band uniforms has just about three weeks before a winner in the raffle is announced.

NORTHAMPTON I. Northampton tax-dodgers blame all their problems on the new zoning ordinance.

The Small Business Development Center and the Eastern Shore Chamber of Commerce on Jan.

The Northampton County Toy Closet will be open on Dec. 17 and 18. The program is coordinated by the Northampton Social Services, Parks and Recreation, Salvation Army and American Legion Post 400.

Accomack County supervisors continued their discussion of water and sewer treatment needs at their recent meeting.

EXMORE -- An event billed as a pre-Thanksgiving luncheon turned out to be a lesson in compassion for upper school students at Broadwater Academy.

The broadband project to provide high-speed Internet access on the Eastern Shore has received an additional $1 million in federal stimulus funds, Gov.

TOYS. I recently read in the Eastern Shore News about Accomack County Sheriff Larry Giddens collecting toys for needy children in the community.

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.

Joshua Lamar Smith, 19, of Cape Charles, was sentenced to 10 years for breaking and entering and 12 months for destruction of property, to run concurrently, with seven years suspended, restitution of $1,529 and supervised probation.

Onancock officials are in the process of reviewing an analysis of the town's water and sewer rates that they commissioned in July from Salisbury, Md.

Hospice and Palliative Care of the Eastern Shore, realizes that the weeks and months following the death of a loved one are very difficult.

A funding ceremony will be held Monday with U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye, Delegate Lynwood Lewis and others for the new, state-of-the-art Onley Medical Center.

EASTVILLE -- 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.

You never know what you'll find at the Craddockville greenbox site. It always frustrates me when there are discarded items strewn around the grounds.

ONLEY --In 1976, a group of seven vocalists gathered to do what they most loved to do -- sing.

A Northampton County grand jury on Monday handed down indictments. Those indicted were: Leonard Deandre Borden, 24, of Exmore, was indicted for breaking and entering and grand larceny.