Eastville News

The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to adopt a new policy on how towns expand their corporate boundaries.

EASTVILLE -- The Northampton County Board of Supervisors approved an initiative by the NASA Wallops Flight Facility to coordinate an environmental impact review for the entire 2008 Eastern Shore broadband ...

EASTVILLE -- The Northampton County Board of Supervisors awarded a financing contract for the lease-purchase of four sheriff's office vehicles and modular classrooms for the county's two elementary schools to ...

EASTVILLE -- Word spread in the Bayview community that 72-year-old Lawrence Massie, a heavy lottery player, might have won something.

EASTVILLE, Va. -- An Eastern Shore of Virginia man who police say fatally shot a 72-year-old widower after waking him during a middle-of-the-night robbery attempt in 2006 was convicted of first-degree murder ...

EASTVILLE - It has been a busy summer for Northampton County Public Schools as staff prepares for a system-wide reorganization following the closing of the county's only middle school in June.

EASTVILLE -- The capital murder trial of Marcus LeShawn Dixon, charged in the 2006 killing of Lawrence Massie, 72, of Fairview, near Cheriton, began Monday in Northampton Circuit Court.

EASTVILLE -- Richmond resident Linda Kesler hadn't visited the spot where her slain son's body was found for more than 20 years.

EASTVILLE -- A Northampton County woman was indicted in connection with the death of her nephew during a vehicle crash in June.

EASTVILLE -- Barbara Schwenk, economic development coordinator for the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission, updated the Northampton County Board of Supervisors last week on progress related to the ...

EASTVILLE -- A group of protesters attended a public hearing Tuesday for the second time in a week to oppose a special-use permit applied for by a neighbor who had since withdrawn uses that were offensive to ...

EASTVILLE -- A public hearing Tuesday on a county proposal to sell the former Hare Valley School to an agency that provides housing repair, elderly and youth initiatives drew a big show of support and ...

Wayne Gaskins receive a call around 6 p.m. Tuesday that nobody wants to get. Gaskins, of Nelsonia, has operated W&W Gaskins Auto Repair since 1980 in a solid U.S. Route 13 structure that had been standing for ...

EASTVILLE -- Northampton County's Planning Commission on Wednesday heeded the comments of a large oppositional group and recommended the Board of Supervisors deny a permit allowing a wholesale and retail ...

EASTVILLE -- The Board of Supervisors awarded a bid for electrical work at the county's under-construction solid waste transfer station near Oyster to R.M. Tytus and Company of Painter after rescinding an ...

CAPE CHARLES and EASTVILLE -- Everybody knows the drill. Forget one critical ingredient or run out of a basic food item like milk or bread and the internal debate begins: Drive out to the highway or do without? ...

EASTVILLE, Va. -- Searchers have found the body of New Jersey man whose sailboat capsized off the Eastern Shore.

EASTVILLE -- The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2009 at the auditorium of Northampton High School Tuesday at 7 p.m. Other public hearings will include ...

EASTVILLE -- Supervisors at Monday's recessed board meeting voted not to stand in the way of the final phase of homebuilding for the New Road Community in Exmore, called New Road Village Apartments.

The North-ampton County Board of Supervisors on Monday night announced its proposed real-estate tax rate of 49 cents per $100 of assessed value, a 13-cent increase.