Tangier News

Our townsman, Mr. G. Welly Coard, contractor and builder, is a busy man and parties wishing his services for the present year will have to see him quick as he has almost enough contracts on hand to last him until January next.

By 6:30 a.m. the tables at Gordon's Confectionery in Crisfield, Md., are packed with regulars breakfasting on egg sandwiches and what the woman next to me promises is "the best coffee in the world." The day before I had driven through the Eastern Shores of Virginia and Maryland to the town where ferries depart for Smith and Tangier, two of the last ...

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.

Accomack County officials will not approve any new paid emergency medical workers until the county and volunteer departments agree on guidelines for when to hire them, where to place them and how to fund the positions.

The Colonial Beach Town Council has booted the mayor from Town Hall, saying things would run more smoothly if he didn't have an office in the building.

After a yearlong absence, ferry service will resume May 1 between the Eastern Shore and Tangier Island.

A Tangier Island museum will match up to $5,000 in donations in an effort to get a ferry service between Onancock and Tangier up and running this summer, Tangier History Museum founder and president Neil S. Kaye said Friday.

TANGIER ISLAND -- What is the future of Tangier Island? Will its culture of hardy watermen thrive? Will part-time residents eventually be bigger portion of its population than year-rounders? Will the exit to ...

The sparsely populated, low-lying bayside of northern Accomack County is a windy place, as residents and boaters know.

U.S. Rep. Glenn Nye recently helped launch the Eastern Shore of Virginia Welcome Center Capital Campaign.

Be a Waterman on Tangier Island, VA by Candyce H. Stapen Molt your city skin and morph into a Chesapeake Bay waterman for a weekend on Tangier Island, VA, the self-proclaimed soft shell capital of the world.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has announced the most recent award winning public schools and school districts under the Virginia Index of Performance incentive program.

David Charnock, a disabled cancer patient who lives on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay, relies on free medical airlifts to make it to the hospital in Norfolk, and the pilot who volunteers to fly him there ...

Town officials met Thursday in a special session to decide how best to take advantage of federal economic stimulus money expected to be made available for shovel-ready projects.

Loading... Piles of crab pots line Tangier Bay around the watermen's shanties of Tangier Island, Va., in September last year.

A grassroots group, Save Our Necks, filed a lawsuit against Accomack County over a year ago protesting appointments to the county planning commission.

On late-autumn days, this tiny Chesapeake Bay island normally buzzes with workboat engines and the shouts of Tangier watermen in their Elizabethan dialect.