Onley News

The Sun-Trust Foundation recently made a donation to Eastern Shore Rural Health System Inc.'s capital campaign for a new Onley Community Health Center capital campaign.

ONLEY -- 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.

ONLEY - Hampton Roads Bankshares Inc., the financial holding company for Bank of Hampton Roads and Shore Bank, announces the board of directors of Shore Bank has named Steven M. Belote as its new president and chief executive officer.

ACCOMAC -- Scott Harvard, who joined Shore Bank as president in 1985 when it was a savings and loan using an old blacksmith shop in Accomac with $19 million in assets, resigned Wednesday as president and CEO of Shore Bank.

ONLEY -- DARE Day was held at Nandua High School on June 9. Since 1989, the event has been a popular celebration at the end of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education course taught in elementary schools.

The Salvation Army's Accomack County Service Unit provides funds to families in emergency situations all year.

EASTVILLE -- The Northampton County Chapter of AARP will meet at the Social Services building in Eastville at 10:30 a.m. on June 1. The head of the Eastern Shore Regional Jail will be the speaker.

PAINTER -- Two Quinby men were charged this week after a farmer who earlier had reported the theft of some farm equipment spotted the men driving on Route 13 with the equipment in their pickup truck.

WILLIAM J. BOOTHE, 72, of Chincoteague Island died Tuesday, May 26, 2009. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Church of God in Chincoteague Island.

ONLEY --Henry Holl-andsworth, a fifth-grader at Accawmacke Elem-entary School, spelled 'capillary' and 'abhor' correctly to win the Eastern Shore News Spelling Bee on Tuesday at Nandua High School.

ACCOMACK. If you read carefully, you will see that not even a group of professionally facilitated meetings between Accomack County's Department of Public Safety and the county's volunteer firefighters and rescue departments could produce an agreement or goals.

ONLEY-- Life is about the journey, not the destination. That was the theme of Monty Sullivan's commencement speech given at the 38th annual Eastern Shore Community College graduation held Friday night at Nandua High School.

CHINCOTEAGUE -- The town will be holding a 5 p.m. dedication ceremony on Thursday for the park located on Main Street across from the Chincoteague Combined School.

ONLEY -- Rehearsals are in full swing for the ESO's spring ballet performance, 'Ramona & Joey.' This original ballet, choreographed by Dana Floyd-Sutter, is far different from anything the ESO has produced in the past.

OAK HALL -- Two thirds of the speakers at a Wednesday public hearing about the proposed Accomack County Public Service Authority were against the entity, which would coordinate and oversee water and wastewater projects.

"The first automobile on the Eastern Shore was owned by the late Claude Nottingham of Onancock." So states the Eastern Shore News in 1930.

There will be a plant sale outside BB&T Bank in Onley from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 25.

ONLEY -- The Accomack County AARP will hold its monthly meeting Wednesday at the Sunrise Restaurant here from 10 a.m. to noon.

CAPE CHARLES --The Eastern Shore of Virginia Chamber of Commerce invites anglers to the third annual Black Drum World Championship Fishing Tournament to be held May 15-17. The tournament will again be based at Bay Creek Marina in Cape Charles.

The East-ern Shore Yacht & Country Club hosted 75 viewers for the annual Spring Fashion Show recently.