Melfa News

Featuring more than 60 dogs, cats, chickens and one horse having fun boating, shopping, visiting landmarks and working with their owners in Onancock businesses, 2010 Onancock Pet Calendar is the perfect Christmas gift for the pet-lover on your list.

MELFA -- Local specialty food company Blue Crab Bay has published a 14-month recipe calendar, just in time for the holidays.

The Eastern Shore of Virginia will see the light by the end of the year -- that's when the long-awaited, $6 million fiber backbone that is the core of the local broadband Internet project is scheduled to be turned on.

On Sunday, Dec. 6 from 1 - 3 p.m., Santa will fly to the Accomack County Airport here.

A Cheapside man was fatally injured late Thursday in a single-car crash here. Duval Montrice Washington, 23, of the 27000 block of Cheapside Road, was pronounced dead at the scene, said State Police spokeswoman Michelle Cotten.

An hour-long seminar entitled: "The Hydrology of the Eastern Shore" will take place in the Lecture Hall of the Eastern Shore Community College in Melfa.

MELFA -- Seven veterans are currently taking 79 college credits from Eastern Shore Community College under the new Post 9/11 GI Bill.

MELFA -- Eastern Shore Community College is reporting an 11 percent increase in fall enrollments this semester.

MELFA -- Eastern Shore Community College will again offer its popular customer service certification program starting next month.

MELFA -- Frank Thomas Ward, 81, husband of Denna Scott Ward and a resident of Melfa, passed away Thursday, Oct.

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MELFA -- Delegate Lynwood Lewis and two challengers in the Nov. 3 election, Republican Melody Scalley and independent John Smith, will participate Tuesday in a forum sponsored by Citizens for a Better Eastern Shore and held at Eastern Shore Community College.

For many young people, summer is viewed as a break from school and responsibilities.

MELFA -- The 2009 United Way Campaign on the Shore has begun. The campaign goal of $315,000 is higher than last year's goal, but needs in the community have increased as the months have rolled on.

MELFA -- Eastern Shore Community College has partnered with ed2go to offer hundreds of online, instructor-facilitated courses and has announced the launch of 'Praxis I Preparation.' This course will prepare prospective teachers to pass all three parts of Praxis I. They'll learn useful test-taking strategies, get plenty of practice test questions ...

MELFA -- Forty graduates participated in the Eastern Shore Community College's GED graduation ceremony held June 26 at Nandua High School.

MELFA -- The community officially inaugurated Eastern Shore Community College's new $7.2 million Business Development and Workforce Training Center on Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by over 100 people, including several who played key roles in its establishment.

Two men who pleaded guilty to selling contraband cigarettes have received probation.

According to Sheriff Larry Giddens, on Thursday, Sept. 3, at 9:52 p.m., the Accomack County Sheriff's Office received a report regarding suspicious people in the area of the migrant camp on John Kane Road in Greenbush and shots being fired in the same area.

MELFA -- John Thornes of Accomack County, who won a national arm-wrestling title in 2007, won another last month at the American Armsport Association national championships in Columbia, S.C. Thornes, however, won this event left-handed -- he had won his former national title with his right arm.