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...
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25 years ago: Northampton football blanks Seaford, 16-0, moves to 2-0 on season
Photo: Jeff Wayman was Northampton High School's quarterback in 1995. Twenty-five years ago, it was finally the second weekend of...
25 years ago, Northampton's football team began a season for the ages
Photo: Running back Sam Ames, number 10, carries the ball for Northampton High School in the fall of 1995. Twenty-five years ago this...
75 years ago today — an Eastern Shore headline for all time
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...
Today's Eastern Shore question: What vice president's wife had family on the Eastern Shore?
(Caption: The remains of this vice presidential grandmother-in-law are interred at the Liberty Cemetery in Parksley.) Here’s a piece of...
Recalling the great John William Sample, 15 years after his death
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....
An old-school hankering for a Stewart Sandwich for lunch
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...
In search of: A pair of Florsheim "Exmore" shoes
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...
The Rev. Donald Broad, quietly mightier than the elected officials
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...
Where are you, Mary N. Smith's Anthoney James? A look at the 1970 All-District One baseball team
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...
Former Northampton superintendent was VCU's first leader
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?
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...
The 1970 Line of Duty Death of Parksley's Police Chief
I was taken aback this week wandering through old newspapers when I found a Parksley Police Department chief was killed in the line of...
A poignant and emotional Saturday with Norris Bowen Sr.
PICTURED: Norris Bowen Sr. in a scene of Hog Island documentary, "Our Island Home." The place: The Painter fire hall. The time: A...
25 years ago, Northampton decided against state prison
How time flies. Twenty-five years ago this month, the Northampton County Board of Supervisors voted against a plan from the Commonwealth...
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