JUNE 14-16: Book Day Sail Tickets for Tall Ships Festival
Ever dream about running away to a life of adventure and excitement aboard a tall-masted ship? Those romantic days are gone but you can re-imagine them with a two-hour day or sunset sail on the Chesapeake Bay June 14-16 at the second annual Tall Ships At Cape Charles festival. [Read more…]
SATURDAY 6/8: Rogers & Williams Classical Concert at ESO Live
Saturday, June 8, at 8 p.m., ESO Arts Center presents “Poetry in Songs and Airs”: A Classical Concert with Richard Williams & BJ Rogers accompanied by pianist Stefan Dulcie. [Read more…]
Town Council Votes 3.2% Real Estate Tax Increase
By DORIE SOUTHERN
Cape Charles Wave
June 4, 2013
Cape Charles Town Council voted last night to raise real estate taxes 3.2 percent over last year. The new tax rate is 27.6 cents per hundred dollars of assessed value.
The tax is expected to generate some $1.07 million in revenue, based on collecting 95 percent of tax owed.
Council voted twice on raising the tax rate. The first vote raised the rate to the amount needed to receive the same amount of revenue as last year.
Town property values dropped 35 percent this year from the previous assessment made in 2008. If the tax rate were the same as last year, Town revenues would decrease by almost $300,000.
To obtain the same revenue as last year required an increase from last year’s 18 cents to a rate of 26.7 cents. All Council members voted for that increase.
The second vote was to increase the tax rate an additional 3.2 percent, to 27.6 cents. Four Council members voted yes: Steve Bennett, Tom Godwin, Joan Natali, and Mike Sullivan.
The two council members voting no were Chris Bannon and Frank Wendell — but for opposite reasons.
Wendell said he was voting no because he favored cutting spending instead of increasing taxes.
Bannon, on the other hand, voted no because he didn’t believe taxes were high enough. “We’ve never had money in this town. We have nothing in our contingency fund,” Bannon noted to justify his contention that taxes should be raised the full 8 percent advertised for the public hearing. [Read more…]
Local American Legion Post Gets National Exposure
Members of American Legion Post 56 in Cheriton (from left) Bill Stramm, Jim Chapman, Bill Burton, Bob Roche, Ed DeAngelis, Don Mclvee, Steve Downs, Jack Woolley, Marvin Milton, Joe Vaccaro.
By JOE VACCARO
Special to the Cape Charles Wave
June 2, 2013
The oldest American Legion Post on the Eastern Shore was chartered on February 13, 1922, and originally located in Cape Charles. Older veterans recall it as a lively location where WW I veterans and their families frequently met to dance, attend diners and march in parades.
Over the years it became one of the most desirable meeting spots for WW II and Korean Veterans on the lower Shore until a fire completely destroyed the Post some five decades ago.
In 2007, Post 56 found a new home in Cheriton, and another chapter for this 91-year-old organization began.
Since 2007, the Post has boasted bragging rights as having the highest state membership, Commander of the Year, Legionnaire of the Year, Law Enforcement Officer of the Year, an ongoing Boys and Girls State program, a Law Enforcement Junior Cadet Program and an Oratorical Contest.
All of this is in addition to a thriving and highly successful Sons of the American Legion and an American Legion Auxiliary program.
This award-winning American Legion Post is featured in the June issue of the national American Legion magazine. The article notes how Post 56’s membership fell to 22 members and the charter was in peril of being revoked. [Read more…]
