Onancock News

Accomack County's Board of Supervisors tonight will continue its push to form a public service authority by summer's end.

To the people of Accomack County, wake up your Board of Supervisors. They are going to slip it to us by masking tax increases under the title "Public Service Authority." If they get their way and establish a ...

Accomack County's 2009 real estate tax rates are illegal because they were based on an unlawful reassessment, a brief filed in Circuit Court Tuesday claims in the latest volley in a rare appeal of the county ...

Dragonfly Studio Gallery, an artist cooperative, is open for business at the historic Onancock School.

Nineteen people had 10 minutes each yesterday to persuade Accomack County supervisors to choose them for a spot on the public service authority that will likely decide which areas of the county get public water ...

A breakdown apparently has occurred in negotiations between the town of Onley and Accomack County about Onley's request to expand its boundaries.

A unique work of art now hanging at Shore Memorial Hospital will provide a lasting memorial to a nurse fatally injured in a tragic accident here last fall.

A group calling itself Friends of Onancock School has undertaken the task of restoring the former Onancock High School and using it for a gathering place for educational, cultural, recreational and other ...

HARBORTON -- It must have been an odd sight early on a weekday morning -- a bicycle in the road with an attached cart loaded with alcoholic beverages and tobacco products.

The strong thunderstorms will be near Exmore and Onancock around 1110 PM EDT... and Wachapreague 1125 PM EDT Expect occasional cloud to ground lightning and heavy rainfall with these storms.

Erin E. Ayres of Arcadia High School was presented the Eastern Shore News Leadership Award Wednesday night at graduation exercises.

Two more people have been arrested in connection with a rash of scrap metal heists in Accomack County.

Congratulation to North Street Playhouse for its winning production of "Always, Patsy Cline," by Ted Swindley. via Eastern Shore News

Accomack County should create a public service authority to address its water and sewer needs and that authority should acquire Onancock's treatment facility "at the earliest possible date," a citizen committee ... via Eastern Shore News

“The town has noticed a change with the police department...I see people out walking the streets for their health even after dark”

ONLEY -- The first woman ever elected mayor here didn't campaign until the weekend before the election and didn't even sign up to run for the job. via The Daily Times

“Open hearts, open minds, open doors.”

On Sunday, April 13, the congregation of Sanford United Methodist Church in Onancock discovered a special group of visitors was also listening to the sermon -- three baby otters. via The Daily Times

Thank you for the article on the proposed tax increases in Onancock. However, your article did not focus enough on the reasons not to increase taxes. via Eastern Shore News

“One of their issues is they don't feel the county listens to them enough.”

PARKSLEY - The Accomack County Board of Supervisors granted Thursday night a request from the Onancock Volunteer Fire Department made last month to keep a portion of the money billed for its ambulance services ... via The Daily Times

Bravo and thumbs up to Jim Spione's documentary film on Hog Island, "Our Island Home." Thanks also to the staff of the Barrier Islands Center who made this project possible, those who shared their memories of ... via Eastern Shore News

Bill Heaton a World War II veteran from Onancock waits for a sendoff ceremony to begin at Four Corner Plaza in Onley on Sunday, April 27, 2008. via Eastern Shore News