Modest Town News

John C. "Jack" Gray has announced his candidacy for the District 5 seat on the Accomack County Board of Supervisors.

It was like Black Friday, only the shoppers were wearing shorts. The long-awaited Walmart Supercenter in Onley opened to customers at 8 a.m. Wednesday after a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by what appeared to be a fair percentage of the Eastern Shore of Virginia's population.

Deborah Hull-Walski of the Smithsonian Institution, who helped research the history of William Taylor White, attends a service for him in Modest Town, Va.

CAT. To the hero who sped through Modest Town last Saturday night and killed a large yellow cat, you have the burden of knowing you made an old man cry.