25 years ago, Northampton football moves to 5-0, with Sussex Central showdown next
From left, Andre Elliott (number 56), Kareem Sparrow and Nick Bravo chase the opposing quarterback. Where are you, Keith Layne? And do...
A news, history and commentary blog from the Eastern Shore of Virginia
From left, Andre Elliott (number 56), Kareem Sparrow and Nick Bravo chase the opposing quarterback. Where are you, Keith Layne? And do...
Photo: Jeff Wayman was Northampton High School's quarterback in 1995. Twenty-five years ago, it was finally the second weekend of...
Photo: Running back Sam Ames, number 10, carries the ball for Northampton High School in the fall of 1995. Twenty-five years ago this...
Wouldn't this be a great front-page headline for a newspaper these days, this year, right now? One wonders if peace on any large scale is...
(Caption: The remains of this vice presidential grandmother-in-law are interred at the Liberty Cemetery in Parksley.) Here’s a piece of...
Yesterday marked 15 years since my friend and former co-worker John William Sample passed away. I drank a couple of beers in his memory....
I was driving down the highway last week when I had an old-school hankering for a Stewart Sandwich for lunch. Of course, I was 30 years...
There once was a Florsheim shoe called “The Exmore,” spelled the exact same way as the town in which I am sitting. It must have been a...
One of my favorite all-time interviews was in 2008 with the Rev. Donald Broad, who died Wednesday at the age of 94 at his home near...
Who is Anthoney James? Or is it spelled Anthony? And where is he these days? He was a catcher for Mary N. Smith High School’s baseball...
The Bridgetown gravesite of former Northampton Superintendent George J. Oliver and his wife, Machipongo native Clara Bell. One hundred...
What have you done for your community today? That’s what a friend of mine asked on social media a couple of days last weekend. It’s a...
I was taken aback this week wandering through old newspapers when I found a Parksley Police Department chief was killed in the line of...
PICTURED: Norris Bowen Sr. in a scene of Hog Island documentary, "Our Island Home." The place: The Painter fire hall. The time: A...
How time flies. Twenty-five years ago this month, the Northampton County Board of Supervisors voted against a plan from the Commonwealth...