Exmore News

The Friends of Onancock School recently unveiled conceptual drawings of what it hopes the former Onancock High School, now a community and arts center, will look like after a renovation that will cost about $3.5 million.

I feel compelled to write this article because for three-and-a-half years there has been a one-sided story about Exmore.

NEWS I. The June 24 edition of the News gave us a half a page of fishing reports, much more than was given to each graduating class on the Shore.

A local group has begun a mission project to restore the historic Oak Grove United Methodist Church, home of the country's oldest-running Sunday school.

ONANCOCK -- The Pungoteague Ruritan Club will sponsor its third annual small boat poker run on Saturday, July 25.

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.

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

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

The mayor of Exmore, Virginia died after being injured in a two-vehicle crash Wednesday.

Carlos Gabriel, aka Joel Vargos Torres, 25, of Accomac, pleaded guilty to two counts of forging a public document, second-offense DUI, no driver's license and no liability insurance.

EXMORE -- The Eastern Shore of Virginia Housing Alliance on May 27 hosted the 2009 Housing Tour of existing and recently constructed, low-cost owner-occupied homes and rental units.

EXMORE -- Jerry Pallotta was 32 years old, working for an insurance company in downtown Boston and had four children with his wife, Linda, when he struck upon an idea that would allow him to remain at his home every day.

The summer program sponsored by the Boys and Girls Club of Southeast Virginia, Eastern Shore Unit, is offered to students of Accomack and Northampton counties, grades PreK through eighth.

The Friends of the Railroad is sponsoring a Garden Tour on Saturday in conjunction with the town's 125th anniversary.

When the three sisters arrive home after school to the neat ranch house on a quiet cul-de-sac, they get right to work on homework and chores, all to the soundtrack of gospel music -- taking in laundry from the clothesline, feeding their 12-year-old beagle Sassy, helping prepare a supper of Hamburger Helper and corn on the cob.

ACCOMACK. The three long-term incumbent Accomack supervisors still are not changing their "just say no" ways.

Accomack County Supervisor Ron Wolff will hold a constituency meeting on May 18, featuring Gary White of the Chincoteague YMCA.

EXMORE -- On Saturday, May 16, the public is invited to attend Tea in the Garden, an event to benefit Broadwater Academy's visiting author program.

A Virginia teenager was seriously injured in a one-car crash Thursday morning in the Lewis County town of Lyonsdale.