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Author traces Va. history in verse
A British author who now calls Virginia home will appear at two area libraries Tuesday to read from his new history of the state, written in verse.
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New effort is launched to resume Tangier ferry
A newly formed committee that is working to bring Tangier ferry service back to Onancock got a vote of support and a possible financial commitment from the Onancock Town Council.
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$2.3 million shortfall projected for next year
Accomack County Supervisors and the School Board Monday met jointly for the first time in years in a prelude to a likely difficult Fiscal Year 2010 budget planning process.
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Judge rejects watermen's pleas over winter crab dredging
A judge sided with the Kaine administration Monday by rejecting pleas from watermen who wanted to keep dredging crabs from the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay this winter, despite a state plan that bans such ...
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Earl Kellum of Perrin, is one of 53 crab dredgers put out of business when Virginia eliminated dredging.
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New crab regs have effect on watermen
Burke Landon Sr. is 72 years old and has been crabbing for 52 of them. But recent laws that shortened the season for female crabs -- which migrate southward in the Chesapeake Bay during the fall -- have left ...
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Runway renovation may scuttle annual holiday holly run
A 40-year tradition of airlifting Christmas holly to this isolated Chesapeake Bay town could be interrupted this year if asphalt now being laid on the island's airport runway doesn't harden in time for the ...
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Winners crowned in inaugural event
The Eastern Shore of Virginia Habitat for Humanity inaugural Hooked on Habitat Fishing Tournament completed a very successful weekend of fishing Oct.
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Navy's local presence is lauded at luncheon
The U.S. Navy's effort touches many aspects of Accomack County -- from the economy to students.
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Beset by problems, Tangier Island watermen calling it quits
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Scientists: Tangier ripe for wind-energy project
Out here in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, the wind can pound any landlubber into submission.
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Bay Foundation, Tangier Island collaborate on environmental projects
More than 40 Chesapeake Bay Foundation staff members recently helped Tangier Island residents with several community service projects.
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ACCOMACK: Report says county volunteer firefighters lack consensus
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 by a ...
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Virginia watermen groups join forces to save bay
The business of the meeting was taken up before the group even got through its opening prayer.
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Islanders' revival in 121st year
There have been plenty of visitors to the island village of Ewell on the Tangier Sound this week as folks come for the annual summer camp meeting -- a 121-year-old tradition that runs each evening this week, ...
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Assessor defends firm's results
ACCOMAC -- The man hired last year by Accomack County to assess all 41,000 parcels of property on Monday defended his results -- which have been the subject of outspoken criticism by some residents and of a ...
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'We've been blessed'
Despite gloomy predictions, watermen have been finding a bounty of crabs so far this season as they work the waters off the lower Eastern Shore.
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Believing In God's Harvest
COMMENT By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, May 28, 2008; Page B01 TYLERTON, Md.
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Power tower saves kilowatt hours
BLOXOM -- It stands in a wheat field that is behind a farmhouse, which is down a long dirt road well outside the nearest town.
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Report: Peninsula could be swampy in 100 years
Rising sea level could make the vast wetlands of Plum Tree Island, buffering Poquoson, disappear and turn dry land around the Peninsula and Middle Peninsula into tidal swamp by 2100, a new report by the ...
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