Reflections on Cape Charles and the Eastern Shore
The Cape Charles Historical Society will hold its traditional Low Country Shrimp Boil on Garden Day, 2018 at the Cape Charles Museum from 5 – 9 p.m. The menu features the famous Alabama shrimp boil recipe — shrimp cooked with red potatoes, special “Old Timer” smoked sausage shipped in from Alabama, corn on the cob, […]
My name is Tammy Holloway and I live at 403 Tazewell Ave with my husband Jim. We are native Virginians, owners of the Bay Haven Inn of Cape Charles and are proud to call Cape Charles home. To many friends, colleagues and B&B guests I am often referred to as the “unofficial” Ambassador of Cape […]
Grit and Grace, A Day of Personal and Community Healing for All Women Is Coming to the Eastern Shore on June 9, 2018 at Nandua High School in Onley, Va. Second Act Communities, a national nonprofit community development corporation brings its mission of “partnering with neighbors to develop and revitalize communities where people can live […]
ES RC&D and the Eastern Shore Watersheds Roundtable Present 3rd Annual Earth Day Celebration at Exmore Park on Saturday, April 21, 1:00 – 3:00 PM Melfa, Virginia – For immediate release. The Eastern Shore Resource Conservation and Development Council (ES RC&D) and the Eastern Shore Watersheds Roundtable are pleased to present the Third Annual Earth […]
Belle Haven, VA — ESO Arts Center today announced its acquisition of the current ESO Building at 15293 King Street, comprised of the Belle Haven School building, adjoining acreage and on-site parking. John Custis of Custis, Dix, Lewis & Custis LLP, represented ESO Arts Center in the acquisition. ESO has resided in the building formerly […]
Pet-friendly local craft beer festival featuring 30+ craft beers, live music, world famous Chincoteague oysters and clams, local food trucks, vendors, and children’s activities Berlin, MD, April 9, 2018: The Shore Craft Beer Fest is returning to Chincoteague Island from 12:30 – 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 28 at the Chincoteague Fairgrounds. Shore Craft Beer […]
Attention Middle School Students and Parents – Come out on Tuesday, April 17th for NMS School Info Night. Access will cover the early college awareness program and SOL preparation from teachers. Dinner will be served. A $100 VA 529 Scholarship drawing will take place. See you there.
Onancock, Va –New mom, Maggie Thompson, was “scared, disappointed and tired” when she found out that she would need an emergency c-section after spending 30 hours trying to deliver her baby. But the potentially stressful situation was instead positive and uplifting due to the skillful and compassionate care from Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital (RSMH) nurse […]
VIRGINIA BEACH — A press release by Chuck Payne, environmental planner for the city said Virginia Beach will host a conference of regional environmental organizations. In affiliation with the Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership, Virginia Institute of Marine Science and The Nature Conservancy, and the City of Virginia Beach will host the “2018 North Landing River/Albemarle […]
1093: Dedication of Winchester Cathedral, the nominal home of King Arthur’s roundtable. 1388: An army of Swiss soldiers, outnumbered 16:1, defeats a Hapsburg army of over 6,500 in the Battle of Nafels, a rout by about 400 armed citizens of the cantonment of Glarus and a handful of knights from other parts of Swiss Confederation. […]
Science and Philosophy Seminar of the Eastern Shore of Virginia has scheduled its next seminar, “The Opiates Crisis: Medical and Law Enforcement Perspectives”. The free 90-minute seminar will be at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Apr 13 in the Lecture Hall of the Eastern Shore Community College, 29300 Lankford Hwy, Melfa, VA 23410. Virginia State Police […]
After a week-long retreat up the Appomattox River from Petersburg, a lengthy and hard engagement with Union forces at Saylor Creek, Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was surrounded by the Union army. On April 8th, Robert E. Lee agrees to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to Lieutenant General U.S. Grant. In the week leading […]
WACHAPREAGUE, Va.- U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine invited local businesses and community leaders to Wachapreague on Monday morning to start a conversation about the Trump Administration’s proposal to open up Virginia’s waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. Leaders and officials gather around the table discussing their concerns, focusing on the effect an oil spill could […]
A press release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that 2.5 million cubic yards of mud, silt, sand and other material will be dredged from the Cape Henry Channel at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay near Norfolk. This channel leads into the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The approach is critical for […]
RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, D, vetoed a bill Monday that would have prohibited the establishment of sanctuary cities, an issue that dominated his race for governor last year. The bill was a single sentence: “No locality shall adopt any ordinance, procedure, or policy that restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws.” Northam […]
New Voluntary Slow Speed Zone to Protect Right Whales NOAA Fisheries announces that the voluntary vessel speed restriction zone (Dynamic Management Area or DMA) has been established to protect a group of five right whales sighted 69 nautical miles northeast of Virginia Beach on April 10. Mariners are requested to route around this area or […]
In a post, which was written by Ruy Teixeira and Peter Leyden on Medium entitled California is the Future, they call for a “civil war,” the destruction of the GOP, and a notion that California runs everything from sea to shining sea. Forget bipartisanship, mob rule is what’s needed. The right should be mercilessly crushed […]
Lucha is missing from the corner of Wardtown Road and Occohannock Neck Road since February. Approximately 9 lb cat with a fluffy tail. Grey with some white on chest and mouth area with some tabby markings. Owner misses her desperately. Please contact if you have any information. 757-652-5961. There is a $200 reward.
Special report to the Mirror by Jane McKinley In perusing the latest issue of A&N’s Cooperative magazine, my interest was drawn to an article featuring the Historic Garden Week on the Eastern Shore. One house, in particular, at 306 Bay Ave caught my eye with its “imposing position overlooking the Chesapeake Bay through 100-year-old ash […]
Tough guys don’t dance… This week, after Nasim Aghdam entered the Youtube campus, shot two people and then killed herself, the coverage was relatively subdued. Outside of an NY Times editorial that stated that big tech, Silicon Valley must now enter the gun debate, the story faded. Not surprising, here are the details: Nasim was […]
Town Council candidates David Gay and Tammy Holloway will be holding Meet the Candiate forums in April. The dates of the events are listed below: David Gay Meet with the Candidate – David Gay – Cape Charles Coffee House – April 12, 2018 – 7pm to 9 pm “I am currently walking the streets of […]
This is a special invitation to visit the Chincoteague Island Library From April 9-14 the Chincoteague Island Library encourages new visitors as well as old friends to stop in to the Library during “Locals Week at the Library” in coordination with National Library Week. Everyone who stops in will have the opportunity to enter a […]
Eastern Shore Materials has applied for a Special Use Permit to expand the existing borrow pit, which is located just off Route 13 near Eastville, from 10 to 18 acres. The parcel is currently zoned Ag/Rural Business. The original pit was approved for use in 2016, with a 200 ft. vegetative buffer. This proposal wishes […]
About 200 school districts in Oklahoma and schools in 21 counties in Kentucky were closed Monday as teachers refused to show up in protest for pay raises, additional school funding, or to protest changes to pension plans. Oklahoma teachers have been threatening this strike for weeks, telling lawmakers that they wanted a $10,000 raise over […]
Late in the fall of 1717, the pirates made their way to the eastern Caribbean. It was here, off the island of Martinique, that Blackbeard and his fellow pirates captured the French slaveship La Concorde — a vessel he would keep as his flagship and rename Queen Anne’s Revenge. After crossing the Atlantic during its […]
Though John James Audubon is well-known for his study of birds, he was also a master of documenting North American mammals. A new book, Audubon’s Last Wilderness Journey: The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, collects all 150 hand-colored lithographic prints that Audubon made from 1845 to 1848. It is the largest and most significant color […]
Special Opinion to th Mirror by Chas Cornweller The fight for the soul of Democracy, the heart of America, has come to this…the normalization of President Trump his methods by which he has come to try and win the hearts and minds of the citizens of America. This clash of wills is NOT between the […]
Special Opinion to the Mirror by Paul Plante First of all, I would again like to thank the Cape Charles Mirror for being egalitarian (relating to or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities) and for presenting diverse opinions on this question of what is being called […]
Rich and Andrew Krumholz, the Harvard-educated brothers who bought 30 Wendy’s restaurants in Hampton Roads a year ago, have just opened a brand new Wendy’s on a corner near Old Towne. Why is this a big deal? This is a first-of-its-kind design for a Wendy’s in Virginia, and features a wall-mounted fireplace next to a […]
742: Birth of Charlemagne, first Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. 1453: Ottoman Turk Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople, which finally falls in May, ending the Christian Byzantine Empire and establishing the Muslim Ottoman Empire (which survived through the Great War, and was finally dismembered via the Treaty of Versailles (1919)). Mehmed is […]
In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent future school shootings. As emotions morph from grief to anger to resolve, it is vitally important to supply facts so that policymakers […]
“The coming disruption may be most disruptive to the work force in a hundred years. We see the kindling accumulating. It’s hard to know what the spark is that (starts the fire), we expect it to build up over the next decade – Karen Harris, managing director of Bain’s Macro Trends Group. For many economists, […]
NOAA Press Release – Most fish live in either salt (ocean) or freshwater (rivers and lakes). But did you know some species live in both? We call these species sea-run fish, and they are an important part of salt and freshwater ecosystems. World Fish Migration Day is a global celebration to create awareness on the importance of […]
According to new reports by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Pew Research Center study, homicides related to gun violence in the US Since have been declining since 1993. “Firearm-related homicides dropped from 18,253 homicides in 1993 to 11,101 in 2011 and nonfatal firearm crimes dropped from 1.5 million victimizations in 1993 to 467,300 in 2011,” […]
A group of students at a Central Florida high school walked out of class Friday as part of a protest in support of the Second Amendment. Some of the students who participated in the walkout at Rockledge High School told WFTV that when the movement to honor the victims and survivors of the shooting in […]
London overtook New York in murders for the first time in modern history in February as the capital endured a dramatic surge in knife crime. Fifteen people were murdered in the capital, against 14 in New York. Both cities have almost exactly the same population. London murders for March are also likely to exceed or […]
Kyle Kashuv, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, emerged as the most prominent pro-Second Amendment voice among students there after the shooting at the school that left 17 dead. Kashuv, 16, who has been embraced by many conservatives, hopes to debate David Hogg, 17, a Stoneman Douglas senior. Hogg is one […]
