Reflections on Cape Charles and the Eastern Shore
Cape Charles is in continued negotiations with the Cape Charles Yacht Center over the new harbor management agreement. According to the status report, “This is taking longer than expected since this is an entirely new operation and working through the nuts and bolts with the Cape Charles Yacht Center is more tedious than just agreeing […]
The local citizen’s group that is aggressively fighting the noise made by local Northampton jobs being performed by Northampton locals at the Coastal Precast Systems concrete plant, continue to question the plant’s management. The Town sponsored a reception for the managers/owners of Coastal Precast Systems. The goal was to give the plant a chance to […]
The CCPD answered 115 calls for service in Cape Charles, and assisted state and county law enforcement 9 times (State police 2, Northampton 7).The force noted 3 felony arrests and 7 misdemeanors. 45 foot patrol hours were logged, and 35 hours in Bay Creek. Every police vehicle has been equipped with a new AED device. […]
Water Plant Manager performed routine maintenance processes including filter backwashing and softener regenerations. Daily water quality testing and analysis continued through the month. 1,323,387 gallons was produced with 162,500 gallons use for process. The average daily production was 189,055 gallons, with peak usage of 235,659. The wastewater plant treated an average of 208,700 gallons a […]
This past Tuesday, September 8th, the Cape Charles Rotary Club conducted its Cash Raffle drawing in the Cape Charles Strawberry Plaza.Andy Buchholz, Cape Charles Town Council / Eastern Shore Signs, SuzanneGolibart, Periwinkles, and Karen Zamorski of Cape Charles Main Street drew the lucky winners: Nancy Dalinski, Brussels, Belgium – $500 Chuck Arnason, Blackstone, VA – […]
Currently, the SPCA is open by appointment only. We are getting applications approved prior to arranging visits; dog visits take place in our yard. Email shorespca@gmail.com if you’d like to apply to visit or adopt Petey. Meet Petey Petey is a very senior boy at 14 years old. He’s lived with his dad forever and […]
Found on Seaside Rd. in Cheriton. If you know this dog please call the facility to find out how to reclaim your dog 757-787-7091.
Virginia High School League has officially cancelled the Fall sports for Virginia’s public schools. The VHSL is planning on starting winter sports on December 14. That schedule will occur until February 20. The games are scheduled for late December. Spring sports will start practices on April 12 and the first games are scheduled for late […]
Just days after the twin towers fell. 10/30/01: President George W. Bush throws out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 3 of the 2001 World Series. 100%. The Pressure. The Stress. The potential Threat. President Bush met that moment and owned it. Derek Jeter told the President, “Don’t bounce it, or they’ll boo you. This […]
Reader submitted Letter. Some of you have done nothing with your life and you’re mad. You have a college degree & a smartphone with access to virtually anything and you can barely get out of bed in the morning while you spit on people who built a whole world with nothing but a horse, map, […]
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A bioluminescent algae has been lighting up the lower Chesapeake Bay along the shores of Norfolk and Virginia Beach. The Virginian-Pilot reported Wednesday that the single-celled organisms form a chain and reproduce in warm water. The algae is present during the day, but becomes most noticeable a couple of hours after sunset. When […]
The American beer industry is basically a fiefdom, surviving those intervening decades between Prohibition’s blessed repeal and the industrial improvements in bottling, shipping, and mass-batch brewing that arrived post-WWII. Provincial breweries dominated their respective regions, but rarely expanded beyond the invisible boundaries of cost-effective distribution. These are some of our favorites, ranked in no particular […]
1297: A Scottish army under the command of William Wallace defeats a numerically superior English army at the Battle of Sterling Bridge. In a dramatic case of using terrain for tactical advantage, the Scots established themselves on relatively high ground overlooking a narrow bridge over the River Forth, whose road was flanked on both sides by nearly impassable, boggy […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria issued the following statement on the 19-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks that took place on September 11, 2001: “Today, we remember the 2,977 lives we lost on September 11, 2001, and the courageous first responders who put their lives in harm’s way to save others on […]
Sgt. Maj. Thomas Payne received the Medal of Honor Friday. President Trump awarded Payne the highest military honor for his actions during a 2015 hostage rescue mission in Iraq against ISIS. The mission would be the same mission that Master Sgt. Josh Wheeler died on. Payne rescued 70 hostages October 22 near Hawija, Iraq awaiting […]
After brokering a peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), President Trump has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination submitted by Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian Parliament, lauded Trump for his efforts toward resolving protracted conflicts worldwide. Tybring-Gjedde, in his nomination letter to the Nobel Committee, said […]
The latest Gallup data shows public devotion to America’s sports industry has collapsed in the last year. According to Gallup, the sports industry has a negative image among U.S. adults: 30 percent see the sports industry positively, compared to 40 percent reporting a negative image–a 30 percent decline from American views on the sports industry a […]
Haven’t seen this in the news yet but it’s huge for the George Floyd case: Apparently in May of 2019, Floyd was stopped by police for selling drugs, swallowed the drugs, and then had to be hospitalized for an overdose.
More than two dozen cell phones belonging to members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team were “wiped” clean of their data before the Justice Department’s inspector general could check them. Newly released DOJ records show the phones were wiped of the data because of forgotten passcodes, irreparable screen damage, loss of the device and intentional […]
While spoiled liberal Americans were busy burning their neighborhoods protesting the myth of racial injustice, Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari was executed Saturday in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz. His family were told that he had been hanged. He was arrested on September 17, 2018 and accused of killing a Basij agent Hasan Turkman during the August 2018 […]
After the Mirror ran the story about Town Council’s plans to turn management of the harbor over to the Cape Charles Yacht Center, we received several important comments via email and social media. Most questioned the wisdom of using the yacht center, claiming the facility was incompetent and completely mismanaged. Below are some of the […]
Bay Creek Nears Sellout of New Palmer Lake Villas’ First Phase OfferingNew Villas on Golf Course to offer Low Maintenance Living; Additional Offerings Planned. (CAPE CHARLES, Va.) – Bay Creek, a beach and golf community located along Virginia’s Eastern Shore, has sold nine of its new Palmer Lake Villas within hours of releasing the first […]
At the August 20, 2020 Town Council Regular Meeting, representativesfrom the Joint Industrial Development Authority (JIDA), and Northampton County Administrator Charles Kolakowski presented proposed changes to the JIDA. The name is being changed to the Joint Economic Development Authority. To participate in the Authority, the town must adopt an ordinance. Thursday, Cape Charles Town Council […]
With the Summer of 2020 nearing a close, we return to our love for the ocean. It’s our favorite place in the world. As soon as we have the time get in the water, we go there. We feel a mysterious longing for the sea as some kind of secret to our own identity as […]
All summer, photographer Jim Baugh has been capturing composite images of the night sky. “It has been a great Milky Way Season with this year providing us with twice as many clear skies as 2019. For the “Grand Finale” I wanted to celebrate the end of Milky Season and the coming of fall. So had […]
The Cape Charles Rotary Club’s cash raffle drawing will be conducted on September 8, 2020, at 2:00 PM, in the Strawberry Plaza on Mason Avenue. Cape Charles dignitaries will draw the $500, $250 and $100 winning numbers. Please join this socially distant civic event, meet Rotary Club members, and enjoy the fun!
Town Council discussed the Oyster Farm sign that stands on town property at Fig and Randolph streets. In 2016, the sign could go up as a temporary move to help visitors find the Oyster Farm, which the business considered to be in a remote location of the town. The provision was to stay in effect […]
We have sweet kittens who need loving homes! Meet Carla I’m Carla and I am only 9 weeks old. I am a real sweetheart.I am litter box trained and live with several other kitties. Of course, I love to play, eat, nap, and repeat. I am old enough now to start my vaccines and have […]
301A.D. Founding of the Principality of San Marino, by the stonecutter Marinus of Rab (Croatia). It is the third smallest micro-state in Europe (behind the Holy See and Monaco) but has the distinction of being the longest-lived republic in the world, with its 1600 constitution still in force. And you thought it was just another lovely Tuscan village… QUIZ! What […]
Black Conservatism is not new. There examples of black conservatives over the years, including Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, Ben Carson, and the late Herman Cain, and newer stars like Candice Owens. An example of black conservatives went viral on Twitter this week when footage of an interview surfaced on conservative Stephen Davis’ profile from the […]
NASA has assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Epps will join NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Josh Cassada for a six-month expedition planned for a launch in 2021 to the orbiting space laboratory. The flight will follow NASA certification […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Authority brought in $1.2 billion in revenue during the 2020 fiscal year in a nearly $120 million increase from the previous year, even as the coronavirus pandemic left restaurants and bars shuttered for months. It’s the second year in a row the liquor agency surpassed $1 […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria joined Congressman Andy Kim (NJ-03) in sending a bipartisan letter urging House Leadership to allocate appropriate funding for workforce training programs that bolster coastal resiliency. “As the COVID-19 pandemic has left our nation in an economic crisis, we must support programs that help workers develop skills needed for […]
AP Richmond – In a press briefing on Tuesday, Gov. Northam recounted recent COVID-19 data from different regions around the Commonwealth. In the eastern region, which includes the Hampton Roads area, Northam reported that the region’s caseload is starting to trend downward and that cases are averaging around 214 per day, which is better than […]
The revised CDC figures—which listed fewer than 10,000 American deaths from covid-19 alone—the question, could our health establishment be complicit in such a national—indeed global—deception, be possible? The CDC’s latest statistics page on the pandemic said that for 6% of the deaths included in its statistics, “Covid-19 was the only cause mentioned” on the deceased […]
Reader Submitted Letter. Dear LeBron James, You don’t speak for me and my boys. I’m a father of four brown boys. It is my responsibility as a father to protect and serve them. There is no need for police in my home because as the father, I’m the authority in my home. Police are needed […]
Eventually the wokeistanis will have to accept that there are a lot of people who aren’t remotely on the right but also find them uniquely insufferable. Of course, many on the left, and in major media outlets are now embracing violent mobs as if they might bring about some kind of egalitarian paradise. In fact, […]
