Cape Charles News

Arts Enter Cape Charles has focused on youth summer activities, providing a series of camps for summer 2009.

CAPE CHARLES -- Last September, Telamon Corporation helped Karla Flores open up the Nutrition Club in Exmore.

MACHIPONGO -- A number of other faculty and staff members are retiring this year from Northampton County Public Schools, in addition to Kiptopeke Elementary School Principal Gwyn Coghill, who leaves in June after just over 35 years.

CAPE CHARLES -- Art critic Donna Iona Drozda expressed her delight with the ambiance at the gallery.

CAPE CHARLES -- Gwyn Coghill followed a Greenville, N.C., high school friend to the Eastern Shore as a teacher in 1974 after graduating from her hometown-based East Carolina University, and she's been here ever since.

KIPTOPEKE -- The roots of the soon-to-open welcome center at the southern tip of the Eastern Shore go back to 2006 and a partnership forged between the regional tourism commission and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. The facility is scheduled to open July 1, in time for the busy holiday weekend crush of travelers, and tourism officials are ...

Kelley Elaine Bynum, 22, of Belle Haven, pleaded guilty to three counts of third offense larceny, using false identification and shoplifting.

The mayor of the small Eastern Shore town of Exmore was killed in a two-vehicle accident on Route 13 yesterday.

Blue marlin release - Kenneth Saiya, Virginia Beach, off Hatteras. Blueline tilefish - Jerry Cole, Virginia Beach, 10-4, Norfolk Canyon.

EXMORE -- Longtime town mayor Guy Lawson, who presided over a period of remarkable growth and revitalization in Northampton County's most populated town, was fatally injured in a car crash Wednesday afternoon.

The longtime town mayor here was fatally injured this afternoon in a two-car crash, a development that has left his hometown stunned.

NASSAWADOX -- The Best Friends Fun Dog Show was held on May 24, after two rainouts, at the Randy Custis Memorial Park in Nassawadox.

The Board of Supervisors appointed a brand-new nine-member Planning Commission on Monday after conducting a closed session to review applications.

DEWEY BEACH -- After years of delays and interrupted starts, the Indian River Inlet Bridge should start looking like a real bridge sometime this fall -- but in the meantime, there could be occasional lane closings on the existing bridge.

CAPE CHARLES -- The Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority announced this week that it has completed an easement purchase agreement with Canonie Atlantic Company and Cassatt Management LLC for placement of a fiber optic cable along the railroad immediately.

Good day, amigos. I bring you a fine selection of green events with which to fill your calendar.

It was just about a month ago that Berkley Rayfield appeared before the Town Council to ask for a worksession to explore locating an independent Christian school in the town-owned former high school here.

Coast Guard sprang into action Saturday night rescuing three people from a boat partially submerged in the water.

CAPE CHARLES -- On Saturday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 31, at 3 p.m., Arts Enter School of Dance will present a dance adaptation of 'Alice in Wonderland' at the Palace Theater in Cape Charles.

Several years ago, when Bay Creek and Marina Villages first appeared on the Cape Charles shoreline, there was a sense of revival, a feeling of rebirth for the town.