Dog found near Metompkin Rd. Parksley. If you know this dog, or can help, please call the Eastern Shore Regional Animal Facility at 757-787-7091.
10th Annual Run For The Animals May 2nd
The 10th Annual Run For The Animals is set for Sunday, May 2, 2021, at the Wachapreague Carnival Grounds, Wachapreague, VA.
Choose either the Half Marathon, 10K or 5K.
Run or walk, with or without your canine companion.
This is a charity event and all proceeds to support the animal orgs who serve the Eastern Shore of VA.
For more info visit: www.RunForTheAnimals.com
3 Distances to choose from:
- Half Marathon (13.1 miles)
- 10K (6.2 miles)
- 5K (3.1 miles) run or walk (non-competitive)
- All distances $40 ($45 April 1) ($50 Race Day)
- Baby joggers & Strollers welcome
- All distances with or without your leashed canine companion
- Doggie water provided on course
Friday Night Lights: HS Football returns to the Shore
Northampton High School officially played the first home football game Friday evening at Hamilton Field, and were unceremoniously slapped down by King and Queen Central Tigers. Weak game planning, questionable coaching decisions, lackluster defensive fundamentals (tackling, turnovers), and a general lack of modern football vision continue to define Yellowjacket football.
The final score was 44-18.
Broadwater Academy began their football season Saturday, March 6 at 1:00 PM at Bynum Field vs. Richmond Catholic.
Running back Dustin Splawn ran 19 rushes for 162 yards. Trenton Johnson carried the ball 6 times for 61 yards.
Quarterback Liam Flynn was a lukewarm 6 for 11 passing for 80 yards with one touchdown and one interception but rushed for 43 yards and two touchdowns.
Virginia delegates will get over $800,000 this year for travel and meal expenses….while staying home??
The Virginia Pilot reported on Wednesday that state delegates worked on the General Assembly agenda from home this year and skipped their usual travel, hotel stays and meals in Richmond.
At the same time, House members collectively took in over $800,000 in per diem stipends that are typically used to cover travel and housing expenses.
Democratic lawmakers say the money is subject to income taxes this year, as opposed to years past when it was considered nontaxable reimbursement for most lawmakers. They prefer the term “session expenses.”
Virginians are urged to know their flood risk, protect their property during Flood Awareness Week, March 14-20
RICHMOND – Governor Ralph Northam has declared March 14-20 as Virginia Flood Awareness Week. It’s a time for Virginians to learn about their flood risk and protect their homes and property with flood insurance ahead of spring rains and hurricane season.
Flood Awareness Week builds on a number of initiatives aimed at bolstering the commonwealth’s resilience to hazardous events such as extreme weather, storm surge and recurrent flooding.
Virginians can use the Virginia Flood Risk Information System, available through the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, to identify their property’s flood risk.
DCR is the state agency responsible for coordinating flood-protection activities and helps communities comply with requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program.
Most homeowners and renters insurance policies do not cover damage from floods or surface water or storm surges. Only 3 percent of Virginians have flood insurance, according to the National Flood Insurance Program.
“Virginians should review their insurance policies now to make sure they have the coverage they need ahead of spring rains and the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs June 1 through Nov. 30,” said DCR Director Clyde Cristman. “It takes 30 days for a new flood insurance policy to go into effect, so it’s important to be covered before a storm.”
Nearly 90 percent of Virginia communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program, which allows all of their residents — regardless of flood zone — the ability to purchase federally-backed flood insurance. Flood insurance may also be available through private insurers.
“Flooding can cause catastrophic damage, and Virginians should take action now to reduce the risk of future flooding to homes and structures. Preparation now will lead to a better recovery later,” said Virginia Department of Emergency Management State Coordinator Curtis Brown.
“Floods can happen anywhere and anytime,” said Virginia Insurance Commissioner Scott A. White. “Even a few inches of flood water can cause extensive damage to your home and its contents. Buying a flood insurance policy is one of the best ways you can help yourself recover financially from a flood.”
The public is invited to participate in these activities to learn about, and share, the impacts of flooding:
Flood Awareness All-Media Exhibit
Feb. 26-March 20
Tuesdays-Sundays, noon-5 p.m.
Art Works, 320 Hull St., Richmond
Twitter Chat
March 16
Noon-1 p.m. EST
Twitter chat focused on flood risk and flood insurance. Follow #FloodAwareChat.
Virtual Roundtable Discussion, “The Impacts of Place, Space, Climate Change and Race”
March 18
6 p.m. EST
Community and policy leaders will discuss the disparate impacts of flooding in minority communities, barriers to recovery and solutions for change. Registration required.
For more information, visit www.dcr.virginia.gov/floodawarenessweek.
How to get your Virginia Medical Marijuana Card
To qualify for a Virginia Medical Marijuana Card, you must meet the following qualifications:
- Be diagnosed with a medical condition you believe will benefit from medical marijuana treatment.
- Have written certification recommendations from a registered Virginia physician.
- Proof of Virginia residency (current VA Driver’s License or State ID card).
To receive a medical marijuana card in Virginia, you must be diagnosed, by a licensed Virginia physician, with a medical condition that the physician deems can benefit from medical marijuana treatment.
Find out more from the organization Virginia Marijuana Card.
The Virginia Board of Pharmacy has established five zones that will each have five pharmaceutical processors operating so patients across Virginia have access to medical cannabis.
Dispensary products include capsules, sprays, tinctures, oils, creams, gels, lozenges, patches, troches, suppositories, and lollipops; the products must contain at least 5 mg of CBD or at least 5 mg of THCA per dose and cannot contain more than 10 mg THC per dose, or single unit.
Here are some of the most common conditions treated with medical marijuana:
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
- Anxiety
- Autism
- Cachexia and wasting syndrome
- Cancer
- Crohn’s Disease
- Chronic Pain
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Fibromyalgia
- Glaucoma
- Hepatitis C
- Huntington’s Disease
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Sickle Cell Anemia
- Tourette’s Syndrome
History Notes this week of March 1st
1565: Founding of Rio de Janeiro.
1712: In Stockholm (and elsewhere in the realm), the subjects of the kingdom of Sweden celebrate February 30th, bringing the country’s calendar back in line with the rest of Europe, who were still using the Julian dating system. The Swedish Calendar was planned as a way to slowly- over 40 years- to move international dating over to the better-derived and nominally more accurate Gregorian Calendar. But after 12 years of no one else following their lead, it just got too hard. At this stage, Sweden was a day off from everyone else, and it would only get worse over time. The backwards leap this day brought her back into the mainstream, although when the rest of the world made the sudden 11-day leap in 1753, Sweden waited a year, maybe out of spite. On the other hand, in Russia they waited ‘til they were communist, and the Orthodox Church still hasn’t given it up.
1776: The Continental Navy’s Continental Marines storm ashore in Nassau, Bahamas, under the command of Captain Samuel Nicholas (DLH 11/10). The attack is the Marines’ first amphibious assault. No surprise, they successfully occupied Nassau, spending two weeks loading British guns and powder into the little Navy fleet. For some reason the island’s governor, who so hospitably did not offer significant resistance to the Americans, complained later that the American officers drank their way through the occupation, completely draining his liquor supply
1779: Birth of American polymath Joel Roberts Poinsett (d.1851), a congressman, physician, botanist, statesman, and the first U.S. Minister to Mexico (prior to our sending an ambassador), where he spent a significant amount of time cataloging the varieties of flora in the southern part of the country. He is best known today for bringing to the United States the red-leafed “Christmas-Eve flower” that now bears his name.
1781: The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but their fundamental weakness lead to our current, magnificent Constitution.
1791: The French Republic, in response to an urgent need to deal with persistent English threats along the coast, builds the first of a tightly interlaced series of semaphore towers, or “optical telegraphs,” to rapidly communicate between the frontiers and the capital in Paris. The towers in France used a series of rotating and articulated arms to create coded characters. Other countries used different types of open and closed panels or different types of arms, but the principle remained the same: the most distant lookout would spot some kind of listed activity offshore and immediately report it to the next tower along the line. Not surprisingly, the towers themselves made excellent targets for military raids.
1810: Birth of Fredrick Chopin (d.1849), in Warsaw. The piano prodigy becomes an international celebrity, whose work includes over 230 extant scores, all written for piano, with only occasional instrumental accompaniment. He died in Paris at age 39 of tuberculosis. At his request, after death his heart was removed and interred at his home church in Warsaw.
1831: Birth of American inventor & businessman, George Pullman (d.1897). The inventor of the pull-down bed for those long-distance train trips. The Pullman Sleeper also created an entirely new class of crew for the trains: the Pullman Porter, who was responsible for making and un-making the beds every day.
1836: The Alamo may have still been under siege, but the Texas Convention of 1836 on this day declared the independence of the Texas Republic from Mexico.
1845: President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the annexation of the Republic of Texas. This act was not as simple as it sounds. You may also hear from time to time that Texas is the only one of the Several States to have a legitimate secession clause in its annexation. This is also not as simple as it sounds. Texas is, in fact, the only State that was annexed as a formerly sovereign state, not as a federal territory from which a State would be organized. The decade of high political drama that surrounded Texas’s eventual integration into the United States remains a potent force in the identity of Texans nationwide.
1847: Birth of Scottish-American inventor Alexander Graham Bell (d.1922).
1861: Tsar Alexander I abolishes serfdom in Russia.
1872: Yellowstone National Park is established.
1895: Birth of American General Matthew Ridgway (d.1993), best remembered for his command of U.S. 8thArmy in Korea, where he revitalized a demoralized and retreating army and put them on the attack against the communist onslaught from the North. When General MacArthur was relieved of command by President Truman in the Spring of 1951, Ridgway was awarded his fourth star and took over as Supreme Commander of the UN forces engaged in Korea.
1905: In an attempt to build on his assassinated predecessor’s reforms, and to placate nascent agitation by unionists and communists, Russia’s Tsar Nicholas II agrees to create a representative legislature, the Duma.
1918: Only months after completing their overthrow of the Tsar, the new communist government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics sues for peace with the Central Powers and signs the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ending Russian participation in the Great War. Party Leader Vladimir Lenin and his henchmen thence turn their attention to waging war on their own people.
1924: Birth of Deke Slayton (d.1993), one of the original 7 Mercury Astronauts, who had the distinction of being grounded from the flight program for reasons of a suspected heart murmur. He remained in NASA, however, becoming head of the Astronaut Office, which controlled astronaut selection and flight assignments. After completion of the dangerous and dramatic Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, Slayton was finally released for flight as Docking Module Pilot of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a 1975 earth orbital mission that set the conditions for continued U.S.- Russian cooperation in space.
1924: The city of Fiume, on the Dalmatian coast of the Ottoman Empire. In the early 18th Century scramble to supplant Venice as the principal Adriatic seaport, the Sultan in 1719 granted Fiume status of Free State within the Empire. The city’s status rose and fell periodically during the Ottoman period, the political agitation often aided and abetted by Italy, particularly after the 1870-era unification. At the close of the Great War, the Paris Peace Conference delegates, working under the guidance of President Wilson’s 14 Points, pressed forward with the dismemberment of Ottoman territories in the Balkans based on the concept of national self-determination. Fiume almost immediately became a flashpoint. Since “nationalism” in the Balkan context depended on language, the three spoken languages of Fiume did nothing to solve the issue. Neither did Italian nationalism, Italian Fascism, Croat nationalism, Serb nationalism, “native” Fiume communism and a number of other lesser, but similarly high-strung interests. For five years, the status of Fiume was debated, settled, debated again, and settled again until on this day, Italian Fascists staged a coup d’état that overthrew what passed for a government, and asked for Italian military intervention and annexation by Italy. Press reports and other writing from the period often referred to Fiume in the kind of terms that we recently referred to Beirut, or Baghdad, or Kabul or, more recently, Aleppo: “Oh, yeah- that place (about which everybody knows what is going on)…” In the end, the little city-state was actually annexed by Yugoslavia, and its name changed to its native Croat title, Rijeka.
1932: Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, infant son of Lucky Lindy and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, is kidnapped from their home in East Amwell, NJ. In mid-May, the boy’s body was discovered not far from the Lindbergh’s home, with death indicated from a massive blow to the head. The crime riveted the national consciousness for over two years, more of which we’ll see when we get to the anniversary of the trial.
1938: After five years of dry holes, Standard Oil of California finally discovers oil near Dahran in Saudi Arabia. The American oil consortium who did the exploration and development of the oil industry there went through several iterations, finally becoming the Arabian-American Oil Company, more commonly known as Aramco.
1949: A USAF B-50 Superfortress, under the command of Captain James Gallagher, arrives at Carswell AFB in Fort Worth after completing a 94 hour, non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. The crew performed four aerial refuelings, meeting Air Force tankers over Lajes airfield in the Azores, Dahran Airfield in Saudi Arabia, Clark AFB in the Philippines, and Hickam AFB in Hawaii. FYI: the B-50 was a modified B-29, using more powerful and reliable Wright Cyclone engines, a taller vertical stabilizer, and other fuselage strengthening improvements that permitted it to carry nuclear bombs (which were huge- like 8-10,000 pounds each- at the time).
1950: Birth of singer-songwriter and drummer Karen Carpenter (d.1983), her golden voice cut short by the ravages of anorexia nervosa.
1953: Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin collapses from a stroke. He dies four days later.
1991: An amateur video, taped by George Holliday, surfaces of a drunken Rodney King “not getting along” with the LAPD. He was, in fact, beaten to a pulp, but the acquittal of the offending officers triggered riots in Los Angeles the following year.
2005: Adventurer and aviation dynamo Steve Fossett (1944-2007) lands at the old Air Force base in Salina, Kansas, to complete the world’s first solo, non-stop, unrefueled powered flight around the world. The plane was a carbon-fiber wonder designed and built by the great Burt Rutan.
VIMS offering Summer Internships
The Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s Eastern Shore Laboratory will again offer summer intern opportunities for senior high school and college students who are primary residents of the Eastern Shore to work at the lab on various research projects related to marine science.
Interns will have the opportunity to work directly with research scientists and graduate students on projects ranging from shellfish aquaculture to water quality to restoration ecology. The goal of the program is to provide hands-on learning and employment opportunities for local students interested in careers in science.
The program is open to college students who are home for the summer and to senior high school students from Northampton and Accomack counties. Admission to the internship program is highly competitive, with the number of applicants exceeding available positions.
William & Mary values diversity and invites applicants from underrepresented groups who will enrich the research, teaching and service missions of the University. The University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and encourages applications from women, minorities, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to Linda Ward [lward@vims.edu] or mail to VIMS, P.O. Box 350, Wachapreague VA 23480 by the March 13, 2021 deadline.
Atlantic sea scallop fishery harvest was 60.6 million pounds
The Atlantic sea scallop fishery is one of the most successful fisheries in the country. In 2019, commercial landings of Atlantic sea scallops totaled more than 60.6 million pounds of sea scallop meats and were valued at approximately $570 million.
There are many partners and people involved in the fishery that assist in the collection of data and management of the species. The Atlantic sea scallop is a smart seafood choice because it is sustainably managed and responsibly harvested.
Check out this interactive story map to learn more about the Research Set-Aside program and how NOAA is working to learn more about this species and what makes a successful fishery.
Congresswoman Luria Votes for Justice in Policing Act
Comprehensive reform bill aims to restore the trust between the community and police
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria voted for the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 (H.R. 1280), a sweeping police reform bill aimed at promoting accountability within law enforcement and ending racial profiling.
“We must restore the trust between communities and our police force, and we can’t do that without corrective action to end unlawful and unacceptable behavior,” said Congresswoman Luria. “This bill takes a comprehensive and commonsense approach to improving public safety that ultimately makes our police force stronger without cutting funding.”
The Justice in Policing Act of 2021:
-Prohibits federal, state, and local law enforcement from racial profiling and mandates training on racial, religious, and discriminatory profiling for all law enforcement.
-Bans chokeholds, carotid holds, and no-knock warrants at the federal level and limits the transfer of military-grade equipment to state and local law enforcement.
-Mandates the use of dashboard cameras and body cameras for federal officers and requires state and local law enforcement to ensure the use of police body cameras.
-Establishes a National Police Misconduct Registry to prevent officers who are fired from moving to another jurisdiction without any accountability.
-Reforms qualified immunity so that individuals are not barred from recovering damages when police violate their constitutional rights.
-Establishes public safety innovation grants for community-based organizations to create local commissions and task forces to help communities to re-imagine and develop concrete, just and equitable public safety approaches.
-Creates law enforcement development and training programs to develop best practices.
-Requires state and local law enforcement agencies to report use of force data, disaggregated by race, sex, disability, religion, age.
Creates a grant program for state attorneys general to develop authority to conduct independent investigations into problematic police departments.
-Establishes a Department of Justice task force to coordinate the investigation, prosecution and enforcement efforts of federal, state and local governments in cases related to law enforcement misconduct.
Congresswoman Luria also cosponsored the Justice in Policing Act in the 116th and 117th Congress. It received the support of civil rights organizations, including Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Action Network, National African American Clergy Network, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP), Black Millennial Convention, and the National Urban League.
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