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6 of 11 schools make AYP
ACCOMAC -- Accomack County Public Schools met the federal Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, objective as a division this year -- something only 41 percent of Virginia school divisions did.
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ONANCOCK: Funeral Friday for Fears, former state senator
William E. Fears, a quotable Democrat who represented the Eastern Shore in the state senate for 24 years, has died.
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ACCOMACK: Report says county volunteer firefighters lack consensus
ACCOMAC - Accomack's 14 independent volunteer fire companies and one rescue squad are struggling to find common ground among themselves and with the county Department of Public Safety, a report issued last week ...
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Forester reports on activities
Area Forester Robbie Lewis of the Virginia Department of Forestry reported at last week's Northampton Board of Supervisors' meeting his staff continues the agency's work locally in assisting volunteer companies ...
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Veterans earn high-school diplomas they missed at war
ONLEY -- David Michell was only 17 years old and had not yet finished high school in 1971 when he signed up with the U.S. Army during the height of the Vietnam War.
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McMath resigns from utilities committee
ACCOMAC -- One of five men appointed by Accomack County supervisors last month to a new committee created to further study the county's wastewater needs has resigned.
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ACCOMACK: State cuts have supervisors pondering next move
ACCOMAC - The Accomack County Board of Supervisors at its meeting today will face a decision on how to address deep reductions in the amount of state aid given to localities to help pay for crucial services, ...
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Man indicted on Arcadia High bomb threat charge
ACCOMAC -- An Accomack County man was indicted by a grand jury on Monday in connection with an April 21 bomb threat at Arcadia High School that cancelled classes there.
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Tax appeal hearing is Tuesday
ACCOMAC -- An appeal of the Accomack County 2009 real estate tax levy order will be in court again beginning at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
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ACCOMACK: Supervisors' health insurance is legal, AG says
ACCOMAC - Accomack County is within its legal rights to pay for a top-shelf health insurance benefit for members of its Board of Supervisors and two county employees, according to an opinion issued by ...
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Accomack's arbiter of rules to retire
ACCOMAC -- It usually happened like this: The nine members of the Accomack County Board of Supervisors would begin discussing and debating an issue, making motions and withdrawing them, accepting some ...
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Accomack's arbiter of rules to retire
ACCOMAC -- It usually happened like this: The nine members of the Accomack County Board of Supervisors would begin discussing and debating an issue, making motions and withdrawing them, accepting some ...
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On Daugherty Road, a litter success story
My husband and I travel Daugherty Road almost every day, and it has always been one of the most unsightly roads in the county.
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County bike trail is making progress
EASTVILLE -- Barbara Schwenk, economic development coordinator for the Accomack-Northampton Planning District Commission, updated the Northampton County Board of Supervisors last week on progress related to the ...
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Another county appeals Tri-County's valuation
ACCOMAC -- The New Kent County Common-wealth's Attorney on Monday filed an appeal of that county's tax levy order in Circuit Court, after residents there also petitioned based on their dissatisfaction with a ...
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Va. man pleads guilty in drunken driving case
A Parksley man pleaded guilty Friday to involuntary manslaughter and drunken driving in the death of a Saxis man in exchange for a deal that limits his prison time to fewer than two years.
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Prosecutor: valuation violated U.S. Constitution
ACCOMAC -- Accomack County's 2009 real estate tax rates are illegal because they were based on an unlawful reassessment, a brief filed in Circuit Court Tuesday claims in the latest volley in a rare appeal of ...
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Man sought on attempted murder charge is found here
ACCOMAC -- A Florida man wanted on a charge of attempted murder was arrested here and is being held for extradition.
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Va. man killed by charter bus
ACCOMAC, Va. - Virginia State Police say an Eastern Shore man was killed when he was struck by a charter bus while lying on a highway in Accomack County .
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Three charged in Accomack robberies
ACCOMAC -- Three suspects are being held in connection with separate Accomack County robberies, including one earlier this year at the Parksley-area Royal Farms in which suspects fired shots at a victim and ...
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