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Eastern Shore Post | April 12, 2024

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Accomack school cafeteria workers strike back vs. criticism

BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Accomack school cafeteria workers defended themselves against the school board at a meeting Tuesday, April 2, in the wake of school board member Jason Weippert’s claim that “the food service sucks” in the county and “school lunches are terrible.” In emotional comments, school system...
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Eastern Shore Post | April 5, 2024

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ACCOMACK: School board tries to halt ‘cronyism and nepotism’

BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Accomack County’s school board chair said new rules governing hiring committees were enacted because the school system “has a long history of cronyism and nepotism” that she wants to prevent from continuing. Chair Janet Martin Turner made the announcement after a policy was approved...
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NORTHAMPTON: Cedar Grove rezoning recommended by planners

BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — The Northampton Planning Commission on Tuesday, March 19, voted 4-3 to send a rezoning application for property in Cedar Grove to county supervisors for their review and possible approval. A Virginia Beach restaurant owner, Dmitri Hionis, applied to rezone a total of about six...
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Accomack school board member: ‘School lunches are terrible’

BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Some members of the Accomack County School Board wanted to ask questions of Brandyn Burkholder, the county’s supervisor of food services, during a meeting on Tuesday, March 19. But Superintendent Rhonda Hall declined to make Burkholder available, saying policy dictated employees appearing before the...
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Woman cleared of involuntary manslaughter charge in Nocks Landing Road death

BY NANCY DRURY DUNCAN, Eastern Shore Post A jury has cleared Jessica Greenley Waterfield, the Oak Hall resident whose vehicle killed a woman on Nocks Landing Road on April 12, 2023, of an involuntary manslaughter charge. The jury in Accomack Circuit Court deliberated just under two hours before finding the 37-year-old...
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House relocated in Cape Charles to make way for new bank

EASTERN SHORE POST/JIM RITCH A house owned by Kerry Shackleford, of Cape Charles, passes Mason Avenue stores in Cape Charles the morning of Friday, March 29. The house wended its way down Mason and Bay avenues en route to its final destination on Washington Street. ANEC trucks in front of...
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Eastern Shore Post | March 29, 2024

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NOCKS LANDING ROAD MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL: Impact noise of vehicle hitting woman ‘like an explosion’

BY STEFANIE JACKSON, Eastern Shore Post — The trial of the Atlantic woman who was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the vehicular death of Erika Bailey, 27, of Parksley, began in Accomack County Circuit Court Thursday, March 28. Jessica Greenley Waterfield, 36, also was charged with reckless driving and careless driving...
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