Exmore News

Northampton County's District 1 Supervisor-elect Willie Randall said this week's election results are a mandate.

EXMORE --There's a place here on the Shore where the benefits of membership far outstrip the cost to join.

PRINCESS ANNE --Eastern Shore student athletes and school officials mourned the loss of a 59-year-old assistant volleyball coach and fuel truck driver after he was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Route 13 on Oct.

Willie Randall, a Gulf War veteran who operates an investment and financial services firm in Exmore, won election on Tuesday to the District 1 seat on the Northampton County Board of Supervisors.

Virginia Ann Benton, 68, of Bayview, passed away Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009 at her residence.

Unsafe drinking water is the single largest public health problem in the world, said Bill McQueeney, BC '57. To help combat the issue, he created Rural Water Ventures, a project that brings clean water to rural villages in Nicaragua, in March of 2002.

Police here have identified the man who was fatally injured driving a truck on U.S. Route 13 here as 59-year-old Thomas Chandler Northam of Parksley.

EASTVILLE - The Northampton Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a new business license fee at its regular October session.

James Diemel of Salisbury, Md., has been named general manager at the Exmore Rommel's ACE Hardware store.

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.

In the busy lives of students at Boston College, there are two days in the academic year that cause everyone to stop.

COLES I. I call in support of Alice Coles. What a great light she is locally and nationally.

From Kwatiz Church to Larry Gunter, lot in Treherneville, for $25,000; From Linda Hyslop to Wayne Hodgson II, 12320 Houston Ave.

The Shore's first-ever accessible and affordable housing for people with disabilities was completed in August and will celebrate its opening today in conjunction with the 10th anniversary of the Eastern Shore Center for Independent Living, the organization that spearheaded the process.

EXMORE -- The Eastern Shore of Virginia Habitat for Humanity will host its second annual Hooked on Habitat Fishing Tournament to help provide decent housing to those in need on the Eastern Shore.

EXMORE. Something has to be done about Exmore Plaza. There is a group of lazy people who hang out between Food Lion and Dollar General who bum money, curse, litter and drink alcohol.

Dolphin Largemouth bass Red drum releases John Harlow, Suffolk, 50 inches, Buoy 36-A. Gregory Parks, Exmore, 50 inches, off Nassawadox.

Jackson Hewitt, an association with Eastern Shore Community College, is again offering its 12-week course on taxation in time for the end of the 2009 tax year.

Shore Christian Academy recently began its school year with more than 50 students in grades K-4 through 5. Since its inception, SCA has added a grade each year, and this year welcomes Stacey Carpenter as the fifth-grade teacher.

A state regulation that took effect last summer is costing businesses on U. S. Route 13 thousands of dollars to make improvements to commercial entrances off the highway.