THURSDAY 11/29: Trail Planning Workshop at Town Hall
A Trail Planning Workshop will be held 6 p.m. Thursday, November 29, at Cape Charles Town Hall to enable residents to express their desires and provide valuable input into the design process for Phase 2 – North Peach Street/Washington Avenue. [Read more…]
SATURDAY 12/1: Town Silent Auction for Surplus Items
The Town of Cape Charles will hold a Silent Auction 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, December 1, at the Public Works Maintenance Building, 716C Randolph Avenue (behind Rayfield’s Pharmacy) to sell surplus furniture, vehicles and equipment. [Read more…]
FRIDAY 12/7: Annual Holiday Sampler Tour
The 17th Annual Northampton County Holiday Sampler Tour continues its tradition of treating our guests to all the sights, sounds and tastes of local fare this holiday season in historic Cape Charles. [Read more…]
Eastern Shore Getting Two Expanded Libraries in 2013
Virginia’s Eastern Shore Public Library system includes branches in Cape Charles, Nassawadox, and Chincoteague. The main library currently is in Accomac but will move to Onley.
By SARAH BARBAN
Cape Charles Wave
November 27, 2012
On Virginia’s Eastern Shore, 2013 is the Year of the Library. Not one, but two of the Shore’s five branch libraries are moving to greatly expanded locations.
Cape Charles Memorial Library will relocate to the former Bank of America building on Mason Avenue. But even more significant to the Library system is the expansion and relocation of the main branch.
Carol Vincent of the Eastern Shore Public Library detailed plans at the November 20 Northampton County Board of Supervisors meeting.
Despite being a small community, the Eastern Shore has a thriving library system that has changed and grown along with the needs of the community, Vincent said.
The Accomack branch will be moving to a five-acre site donated by Shore Bank located behind the Burger King on Route 13 in Onley.
“We are looking forward to being near the population center,” said Vincent — a population center that will expand much more with the relocation of Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital just west of the new library.
The 30,000 square-foot space will hold a children’s room, a teen room, a computer lab, an Eastern Shore history room, and a meeting space for up to 150 people. The meeting space will also be open after library hours for use by community groups. [Read more…]
SUNDAY 12/2: Book Signing, Wool Spinning at Barrier Islands Center
The Barrier Islands Center has produced a new illustrated hardcover children’s book, The Hog Island Sheep in a Twisted Christmas Tale, written by Andrew Barbour and illustrated by Cameron Waff. [Read more…]
DECEMBER 14-16: Nutcracker Production Has Cast of 100
Christmas time means Nutcracker magic: The Russian Ballet turned American Classic is also a beloved Eastern Shore Holiday Tradition thanks to the talents and dedication of the ESO Arts Center School of Dance students led by Director Dana Floyd Sutter. [Read more…]
LINDEMAN: What I Learn from My Kids
By BRUCE LINDEMAN
Cape Charles Wave
Thanksgiving Day, 2012
As parents, we typically focus on what we can teach our kids. We only have them for a few, brief years before, poof! They’re gone.
But one thing has pleasantly surprised me during our twins’ nine years on this planet: they teach me things every day.
It may not be something new, but something I somehow forgot or misplaced.
I believe you don’t actually forget most things altogether. You subconsciously place them in memory somewhere back where you keep things like memories of your wedding from 20-plus years ago. It’s there.
You just have to rummage through a bunch of other stuff before you find it. “Ah! There you are forgotten memory! So glad to think of you again. How’ve you been?!”
You psychologists out there please don’t take me to task on the above. This is my take on how it happens. As they say, it’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
My kids teach me new songs that they’ve learned in school — new takes on the smart-aleck ditties of my youth and some completely new. I learn new pop songs from them –- music I would never even think of to listen to.
“What is that? You call that music?! Back in my day . . . .” [Read more…]
SATURDAY 12/1: Grand Illumination at Central Park, Followed by It’s a Wonderful Life at Palace Theatre
