Mears News

Accomack County Public Schools honored 11 retiring employees Thursday night at Nandua High School with a dinner and program featuring remarks by Virginia Education Association President Kitty Boitnott.

Students with ties to the Eastern Shore were among the 216 men who graduated on Sunday, May 10, at commencement exercises marking the end of the 234th academic year at Hampden-Sydney College.

OAK HALL -- JoAnn Mears Hickman, 79, of Oak Hall died Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at Sutton's Place of Care in Temperanceville.

ACCOMAC -- Accomack County taxpayers will pay 7 cents more tax per $100 value on their real estate next year and 45 cents more per $100 for personal property taxes.

Holly Brook will be the setting for the Northampton Branch, Preservation Virginia, Spring gathering on Sunday, May 3, at 5 p.m. A tour of the house and grounds as well as a catered buffet supper featuring Eastern Shore wines is planned.

Five members of the Accomack County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday turned back an attempt to cut local funding to public schools by an additional $450,000 next year.

PARKSLEY - The Accomack County Board of Supervisors' meeting Wednesday felt more like a tent revival as scores of residents outraged at the board's decision to ban meeting invocations in Jesus' name and wearing purple ribbons in protest filled the meeting room.

PARKSLEY - The Accomack County Board of Supervisors Wednesday voted 5-4 to change its invocation policy after the county attorney advised supervisors their current way of opening meetings with prayer could leave them vulnerable to lawsuits.

A sharply divided Accomack County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday defeated a measure that would have ended the taxpayer-funded health insurance received by members' spouses and children.

ACCOMAC -- The 2009 Eastern Shore House and Garden Tour will be held on Saturday, April 25, with all sites open from 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. The well-known spring event is presented by the Garden Club of the ...

ATLANTIC -- The Atlantic Volunteer Fire and Rescue Company held its third annual Rockfish Derby Dec.

The Accomack County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday ignored the county finance director's plea for immediate approval of a proposed 16 percent increase in tipping fees, instead voting 6-3 to discuss it ...

LEWES -- Elizabeth 'Betty' Lee Savage Koesteldorfer Bonniwell Mears, loving wife of Colin Kelly Mears of Lewes, went home to be with her Lord Saturday, Dec.

PARKSLEY -- Accomack County officials Wednesday by a slim margin postponed a decision on whether to extend Chesapeake Bay Act land-use regulations to the seaside.

A grand jury indicted 34 people in Accomack County Circuit Court Monday. Indicted were: Paul Talmadge Bowden, no age or address given, for aggravated sexual battery; Thomas Arnold Annis, 25, of Mears, for ...

With the economy teetering between recession and depression, Accomack County has few options available to balance its budget.