Pet Photo With Santa

Have your pets photo taken with Santa Claus this weekend!

 Santa will be at the SPCA Eastern Shore on Saturday, November 17, 2012

9 AM until 1 PM

$12.00 donation for one framed photo and if you leave your email with us, we will send you all the pictures taken of your loving pet.

26528 Lankford Hwy.
Onley, Virginia

Accomack County Sheriff's Office Arrests Fugitive

Lou Thurston with the Newport News Police Department says Jason Daniel Brumbaugh, 32, says a tipster called Eastern Shore officials, alerting them of Brumbaugh's possible location. Brumbaugh was taken into custody at approximately 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon in Accomack County.Wavy.com

According to Sheriff Todd Godwin, a joint investigation to include Accomack County Sheriff's Office, Parksley Police Department and the Virginia State Police led to the arrest of a suspect wanted on multiple felony charges in Newport News as well as a misdemeanor charge regarding a November 9th domestic assault on Maxwell Street in Parksley.

A thorough investigation was conducted in attempt to locate the suspect at large and a perimeter was established surrounding the Parksley area resulting in the apprehension of the suspect at a residence on Callen Street.

Jason Daniel Brumbaugh, age 32 of Newport News, was arrested November 12th on Newport News Felony Charges to include Probation Violation, Breaking & Entering, Grand Larceny, Obtain Money by False Pretense, and Commit Larceny with Intent to Sell. Brumbaugh is also charged with Assault and Battery on a Family Member in Accomack County. He is incarcerated in the Accomack County Jail with bond denied.
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"Project Linus" - Make a Blanket Days

10th Anniversary

For  "Project Linus" being sponsored by 

 Salem United Methodist Church

 

Join us and help a neighbor on DelMarVa. Make blankets for children living in the most damaged areas of DelMarVa.

Make a Blanket Days

Thursday and Friday, November 15-16

10 AM until 5 PM

Lunch will be served to those attending

Salem United Methodist Church

2^nd & Walnut Streets

Pocomoke City MD 21851

If you can sew, kits have been made for simple blankets. Bring your sewing machine, scissors, neutral color thread and favorite supplies.

If you crochet or knit, bring your needles and scrap 4 ply yarn.

If you don’t knit , crochet or sew, please come and make No-sew fleece blankets.

Donations needed: fleece in 1 ½ - 2 yard pieces, 4 ply yarn

For more information call Donna at 410-713-9321

Salem UMC is handicapped accessible on the Walnut Street side.

 

 

Riverside Grill Pocomoke - FREE Appetizer With Military ID

*In honor of Veteran's Day we will be giving a free appetizer to anyone who shows their military ID on Monday*

-Veggie Beef Noodle Soup w/ 1/2 deli sandwich or side salad 5.99
-Taco Salad 6.99
-Shepherd's Pie 6.99
-1 chili cheese dog w/ fries 4.99, 2 dogs 6.99
-Chili Nachos 5.99

MONDAY NIGHT

HAPPY HOUR

4  - 7 PM

Beginning  @ 8PM

-$1 tacos and quesadillas, $3 margaritas
-1/2 price appetizers and 1/2 price import beer bottles

"In Flanders Fields"

photo /reinventingaboomer

In Flanders Fields

By: Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, MD

(1872-1918) Canadian Army

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

You will never be forgotten.......

OH! Those Trunk-Or-Treaters !!

Midway's annual Trunk-or-Treat hosted by Bay Country 97.9 on October 27th was lots of fun!  It's safe to say that not only did the little kiddies have fun but so did the "big kiddies".  A few hours of games, contests, and just freaky fun is what everyone needed on this day.

Thank you for letting me be a part of it.  Here are a few photos....




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Pocomoke City High School Jr. ROTC was on hand to direct parking.  GREAT JOB!!

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Veterans' Day 2012

FREEDOM has never been free.

THANK YOU to those who have served and those who continue to serve.

Sanford and Saxis Area Hit By Storm (PHOTOS)

29  October 2012 Until Whenever

This is the first thing you see as you turn into the Tall Pines Campground/Sanford, Virginia  The boat has been there for as long as I can remember.  This photo was taken in August  of 2011 shortly after the storm Irene in 2011.  The campground was covered in water at the time as were the few streets of Sanford. 

The photo below was taken after Hurrican Sandy. 

It is the same boat as the one above but the waters from this  storm rushed across the campgrounds towards Saxis Road  upsetting the boat from its perch, turning it around  and sending it to sail towards the campground.  Tall Pines, a small community  itself,  has suffered great damage.

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The road to Sanford and Saxis were extremely flooded and I knew in the early evening of the storm that all of us were in danger when I witnessed a police officer (trying to turn around in our driveway) hit the ditch.  The winds were howling and the rain was so great there was  hardly no way to see.  During normal times my husband would have been to his rescue and have him pulled from the ditch in no time.  But then, during normal times none of this would have happened.  Four police officers and a rescue truck came to the officers aid and I could tell by the waters being well above their ankles that at some point very soon no one in their capacity would be able to help any of us.  I knew that if there were to be a horrific tragedy that night none of those rescue volunteers would be able to help us and it would be through no fault of their own.  You can't drive rescue vehicles through knee deep waters.  No one should expect them to. EVER.

This whole evening and the evening was a blur.  The electric went out early and the only way we could see was by the dim light from the full moon.  But what we could see was the tide- yes tide- rising in our own backyard.  My husband has been living in this spot since he was a young teen....myself a few years now.  We have seen many nor'easter's come and go leaving only water from the heavy rains to stand in our yard.  This night was so different and it was after the pine trees fell and my husbands voice that I became extremely frightened for only the second time in my life.



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My guess is that with the full moon, the winds blowing the tide water from the bay was pushed into all the nieghborhoods filling the deep ditches on all sides of all of us causing the waters to continue into our own yard.  You could almost see it moving and it stopped just about 30 feet from entering our garage.

It was in the morning that I learned that  the Sheriff's Dept. along with the Natural Recources Dept. personel  would be trying to access Sanfor/Saxis with an airboat.  Occurances back here like that are rare.  When you witness the National Guard passing your home you just simply know they are there to aid those that did not fair very well during the storm. 

There was no way anyone could get through to these people.  Not all the waters had subsided.  The stories that you hear concerning water in homes up to the window sills is so true.  So many homes are water marked from the tides.  So many residents in these areas witnessed water running out of their windows.  Some made signs to be rescued but couldn't be heard from the howling winds and pelting rain - IF anyone was out.



Waters actually were waist deep, chest deep.  Fish really DO swim in that water during a storm. 

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I snagged this photo from the internet (above) so show you what Sanford looked like on the 30th of October.  Possibly this could be on either side of the storm because I am convinced that waters rose much highter.  But keep in mind that not only were Sanford and Saxis under water but the other areas surrounding us also.

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Hard to believe that the road crews used snow plows to push the sea grass and debris to the sides of the roads just like they do with pushing snow after a storm.   "Drifts" of sea grass and pine needles line the roads.



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Some residents were out looking at the damages surrounding them.  Some had already hung their items out to dry.  Some were raking their yards and I am sure wondering what in the world some of the items were that had washed into their yards.  Their clothing, rugs and other essential items hung on cords zagzagging around their yards.  Some children searched for lost toys and even though I love to take photos my heart would not allow me to photograph their devastation.  I had only lost two pine trees in the 24 hours I was inconvenienced.  These people, many older, had lost all their worldly possessions.



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The above photos were taken the day before Sandy by my husband.  The dock is still completely there.  The barriers are still at the shore line and the little red crab house that I have always adored is still standing at the base of the churning waters.  I loved this little crab house and the dock.  It was always the place to go to capture some of the most amazing sunsets.  In the warm summer evenings you could hear the sounds of water that washes over the pealer crabs.  Not really a sound that is worth remarking about but it always made me aware of what this tiny town was all about.  And in the days ahead I would begin to hope that people would know that this tiny, quiet town would be about so much more.



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The photo above was captured by Martha Jan Linton.  My photo of this was blurred and I am certain she won't mind my using it to show how the small community she works so hard to keep together has been treated by the wind and waters of Sandy. 





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Part of the dock that the late Mayor Charles Tull loved so well was washed into the waters and the little red crab house is gone.  I should mention here that the current Mayor of Saxis, Denise Drewer is doing all she can to help her residents and has included the Sanford area as well.  Many people in the past few days have reached out to the areas and now lend a hand in the extensive clean up.

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Straight ahead- the Bay.  Road to the left is Savannah Road.  Road to the right at the stop sign is Belinda.  Homes were greatly damaged in this area as well.

And again the sea grass lines the yards and for right now lays as lawns in yards covering the green grasses from summer.   These are the other neighbors of the area.  Homes damaged by waters too.  A boat from the area nearby even washed away in the tide and perched itself on the causeway leading to Saxis.  A swimming pool in a neighbors yard had water standing up to the rim of the pool itself.





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Through the past days vans such as this one and so many  kind hearted people have been to Sanford and Saxis to assist the people with the massive cleanup.  Please know that all of you are appreciated for every thing you have done and continue to do.

I will report more later.



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YUMMY SUNDAY SPECIALS

November 11, 2012

-Cream of Crab (6.99) or Vegetable Beef Soup (5.99) w/ 1/2 deli sandwich or side salad
-Shepherd's Pie 7.99
-Tropical Salad 8.99
-Taco Salad 6.99

Appetizers

Chili Nachos  5.99

Crab Pizza  9.99

EVERY SUNDAY

HAPPY HOUR ALL DAY !

$2.50 bloody mary's and mimosas
$1.50 domestic drafts
$5 bombs

TIME MACHINE ... A Visit To Newtown In 1874.

　

(Reader-friendly viewing of newspaper archives material)

March, 1874

(Bucks County Gazette- Bristol, Pa.)

LETTER FROM MARYLAND

Newtown, Md., March 22, 1874

(Four years before Newtown's name was changed to Pocomoke City.)

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Newtown... is a specimen town of the South in every sense of the word. The majority of the buildings are old, some very much dilapidated from the wear and tear of time, and all, with the exception of those built in the last few years, constructed on the plan so much used in the long ago throughout the South. With their high, sharp roofs, chimneys built out-of-doors, and their general forsaken look, they remind one forcibly of a deserted village, or one which had gone to sleep in some previous age, and had never been able to shake off the lethargy which had taken possession of it.

But in spite of appearances, Newtown is not asleep. She has one large hotel, the "Clarke House," capable of accommodating 300 guests, and one or two of smaller dimensions, several restaurants and drinking saloons-although the latter do not add anything to her credit- and the usual number of dry-goods, grocery, trimmings, and other stores, which go to make up the trade of a Country town; and there is one thing about these stores which would be well for some of your Bristol storekeepers to take pattern by- they nearly all are run on the cash system- and in conversation with the proprietors of one of the largest of them they pay better than the practice of giving a miscellaneous credit.

There are two barber shops, one run by a white and the other a colored engineer, and even here we find the usual sign, "Friend, do not ask for credit, as I cannot and will not trust."

There are two saw-mills, a ship-yard (where there are two schooners now on the stocks), a carriage manufactory, and a canning factory.

Oysters are here in abundance, and large fresh oysters, only one day out of the waters of the Chesapeake bay, sell for 25-cents per bushel. On arriving at the hotel on Friday evening we were greeted with stewed oysters for supper, on Saturday morning we had them fried for breakfast, at noon oyster pie for dinner, and since that time up to the present writing (Sunday evening) we have had them in various ways four different times- so you see a man need not go hungry here for oysters.

There is one printing office here, from which are issued three weekly papers, "The Newtown Record And Gazette," "The Berlin Times," and "The Crisfield Index," the two latter being published for the towns whose name they bear, and which lie about thirty miles from here in opposite directions. 

The people of Newtown can not be said to be deprived of religious influences, having five churches from which to take their choice. There is a Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Methodist Protestant, beside two colored churches, one of which is a Baptist and the other Methodist.

... The people here, as a general thing, are of refined and intelligent manners, social in the extreme, and, like those of some or our northern country towns, anxious to make the acquaintance of a stranger. We had not been in town more than two hours before the business that brought us, the time we were to stay, and our name were known by the majority of the residents of the place, and we have almost begun to feel as though we were one of the "olden" inhabitants. 

Newtown is known for its good looking ladies. We have here seen some young ladies as handsome as it has been our pleasure to meet with anywhere, and in style and arrangement of dress they will compare favorably with those of any of our northern country towns.

The weather here is very unsettled. There has fallen a large amount of rain during the past week, but to-day has been beautiful, with the exception of a strong northerly wind.

Wishing you the continuing success which has crowned your efforts since starting your newspaper, I am respectfully, D.M.S.

　 January, 1924

The Shore Transit Company was planning to establish a new route to its services that would go from Salisbury to Crisfield, Pocomoke, Snow Hill, and Berlin.

　 June, 1940

(The Salisbury Times)

SUNDAY SWIMMING FACES COURT TEST IN BALTIMORE

Baltimore, June 19-(AP)- Another "Blue Law"- this time a question of swimming on Sunday mornings- was scheduled for airing in police court today.

It was described by Police Commissioner, Robert F. Stanton, as a "test case" which he hoped the courts will settle.

Police issued summonses both to bathers and managers and personnel of two semi-private swimming pools yesterday when bathers were permitted to plunge in before 2P.M.

The law forbids charging admission for profit, before that hour on Sunday.

A platoon of police "raided" the two pools shortly before noon.

Plainclothesmen who had preceded them said they had been able to rent bathing suits.

　 June, 1967

(Salisbury Daily Times "People Patter" column)

What reward can one expect after serving as a club secretary for many years. Ben Cohen of the Pocomoke City Kiwanis Club was given a "night" recently by the club in recognition of his service to the community and work as club secretary for most of the 13 years the club has been in existence.

  　 Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!

TIME MACHINE Preview ... A Visit To Newtown In 1874.

It's four years prior to Newtown changing its name to Pocomoke City, and a visitor writes a letter to the editor of a Pennsylvania newspaper with his observations of the town. Oysters are abundant, selling for 25-cents a bushel. The residents "are of refined and intelligent manners, **social in the extreme." He comments that "Newtown is known for its good looking ladies."

**(Friendliest Town On The Eastern Shore?)

Read more about the Newtown of 1874 on this Sunday's TIME MACHINE here at the Pocomoke Public Eye!  
　


　 Do you have a local memory to share with PPE readers.. such as a big snow storm, a favorite school teacher, a local happening, something of interest your parents or grandparents told you about? It can be just a line or two, or more if you wish. Send to tkforppe@yahoo.com and watch for it on a future TIME MACHINE posting!