Features

BY JANET BERNOSKY, Eastern Shore Post — For the fourth consecutive year, Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Onley has received national recognition as one of the top small, rural, community hospitals in the country by one of the nation’s leading healthcare consulting firms. “At a time when other hospitals are struggling,...
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Cape Charles will host a spring Women’s Wellness Weekend that will focus on topics like self-compassion and body positivity and feature a keynote address by Dr. Michele Davidson, a psychiatric nurse practitioner and author. The weekend event, set for Friday, April 5, through...
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — Jane Cabarrus, the first and only female president of the Northampton County NAACP, remembers joining the organization when she was in high school in the 1960s and paying annual dues of 50 cents. That memory is a testament to Cabarrus’ longstanding dedication to public...
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — William “Skip” Oakley witnessed many major changes to the public school system in his 58 years in education, including 48 years as a teacher and administrator and a decade on the Northampton County School Board. Oakley, age 83, declined to run for re-election in...
BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore First — The Nature Conservancy recently completed a $1.4 million oyster reef project with the help of nearly 160 volunteers, mostly Eastern Shore residents, who logged nearly 2,200 volunteer hours on the project. “It’s really, really cool to see how many people in this community, and...
Northampton High School band teacher Brad Ford has been named Northampton County Public Schools’ teacher of the year. Ford “stands out as an exemplary educator who embodies excellence, dedication, and innovation within and around our community,” the school system stated in a prepared release. The press release cited Ford’s...