Cape Charles Wave

20/03/2018

#10 Story GOODBYE WAVE, WAVE GOODBYE

GOODBYE WAVE, WAVE GOODBYE (Our final issue)
http://capecharleswave.com/2015/07/goodbye-wave-wave-goodbye/

CAPE CHARLES WAVE June 29, 2015 In last Monday’s edition (which broke all readership records – over 7,000 page views in one day) the Wave had the sad task of leading the page with news of another drowning off Cape Charles Beach – a tragic death that competent town leadership could have avoided...

03/12/2015

699 FRIENDS AND COUNTING!

The Cape Charles Wave ceased publication in July 2015, but our Facebook Friends count keeps growing! As of today (December 3, 2015) we are up to 699 -- that's around 100 new friends since July! Apparently a lot of people still enjoy reading the Wave -- perhaps it's like an old shoe. THANK YOU FRIENDS NEW AND OLD!

29/06/2015

Bay Coast Railroad Must Move Hazardous Railroad Ties

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By DORIE SOUTHERN Cape Charles Wave June 29, 2015 Bay Coast Railroad has been given five days to come up with a plan to properly dispose of creosote-treated railroad ties currently being buried behind the Cape Charles Museum. After the Wave alerted the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, D…

24/06/2015

Bay Creek vs. Relentless Chesapeake Bay

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June 22, 2015 It's the "Battle of the Bays." On the left we have the mighty Chesapeake Bay, champion for the past 35 million years ever since the area was struck by a meteor. On the right is upstart challenger Bay Creek South, formerly managed by Dickie Foster, who dared to build a golf course…

15/06/2015

County Supervisors Bow to Overwhelming Opposition, Postpone Rezoning Vote until Next Year

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/06/county-supervisors-bow-to-overwhelming-opposition-postpone-rezoning-vote-until-next-year/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave June 15, 2015 The Northampton County Board of Supervisors had hoped to approve their controversial county-wide rezoning proposal on June 29, but following a June 9 marathon session of outspoken public opposition, they decided instead to postpone any action until Janu…

08/06/2015

REVIEW: Cape Charles in the Good Old Days

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By GEORGE SOUTHERN Cape Charles Wave June 8, 2015 Roberta Romeo hears a lot of idle chatter among her customers at the Cape Charles Coffee House, but thanks to a chance comment last year, the town has a new, entertaining, reminiscence of the good old days -- specifically, the decades just before Cap…

02/06/2015

ALTERNATIVE TABLE: Strawberry Fields Forever

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/alternative-table-strawberry-fields-forever/

By KAREN GAY Cape Charles Wave Columnist June 1, 2015 Last spring while my friends were gorging on juicy, sweet strawberries I was supine on my zero-gravity recliner recovering from 35 years of sitting at a desk. This year, feeling much better, I determined to find that farm that everyone talked abo…

01/06/2015

TEELING: Community Involvement Can Save Schools

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/teeling-community-involvement-can-save-schools/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave June 1, 2015 In the Steve Jobs authorized biography by Walter Isaacson, Jobs relates a story about growing up with his dad outside of Palo Alto. When building things, even something like a fence, his dad always emphasized that every aspect of the project be done righ…

01/06/2015

Sad Story for Cape Charles Storybook Cottage

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CAPE CHARLES WAVE June 1, 2015 Storybook cottages became popular in the 1920s and were meant to evoke a "Hansel and Gretel" image -- a gingerbread house good enough to eat. But the example on Stone Road has become a horror story, with passing years recording theft and deterioration. The owner report…

25/05/2015

HISTORIC REVIEW BOARD Chimneys Go Up...

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/historic-review-board-chimneys-go-up-in-smoke-vinyl-siding-denied/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave May 25, 2015 Top of the agenda at the Cape Charles Historic District Review Board's May 19 meeting was the Town Civic Center. Cape Charles applied for a Certificate of Appropriateness for the former library at 500 Tazewell Avenue. Due to leaks around the chimneys, th…

25/05/2015

TOWN COUNCIL Parking Tickets, Sewage,...

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By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave May 25, 2015 Even as the previous mayor of Cape Charles successfully fostered a culture of incompetence and ineptitude, and set the bar so low that even the most flexible amoeba would have to find new and creative ways to limbo under it, and even as we thought it…

25/05/2015

Mason Avenue Parking — Then and Now

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CAPE CHARLES WAVE May 25, 2015 Angle parking on Mason Avenue is nothing new, as the penny postcard above demonstrates. Judging from the automobiles, the scene is pre-WWII. It looks like there were no white or yellow lines back in that day -- somehow, folks just figured out how to drive and park with…

23/05/2015

Town Looks into Restricting Satellite Dishes

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/town-looks-into-restricting-satellite-dishes/

20/05/2015

Should Town Follow its Own Historic Guidelines?

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/should-town-follow-its-own-historic-guidelines/

CAPE CHARLES WAVE May 18, 2015 Would the historic structure at 500 Tazewell Avenue be just as historic without its two chimneys? That's a decision to be made by the Historic District Review Board at its Tuesday, May 19, meeting. The building, once a Methodist Church and more recently the Cape Charle…

20/05/2015

LETTER Chief Pruitt Urges Citizens to...

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/letter-chief-pruitt-urges-citizens-to-thank-a-policeman/

May 18, 2015 DEAR EDITOR, Today in the United States, approximately 900,000 law enforcement officers put their lives on the line for the safety and protection of others. With great success, they serve with valor and distinction. Federal statistics show that violent crime and property crime rates in…

18/05/2015

The Alternative Table: Willowdale Farm

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By KAREN GAY Cape Charles Wave May 18, 2015 Catherine Harrison, of Willowdale Farm in Painter, is an unexpected cross between a mad scientist and a business executive. Looking at her land, you’d think that there isn’t much farming going on there, but what she is growing blends in with the green past…

18/05/2015

Reverse Angle Parking Off to Shaky Start

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CAPE CHARLES WAVE May 18, 2015 According to the diagram above, Cape Charles's new "reverse angle parking" on Mason Avenue is supposed to be a three-step process: Signal, Stop, Reverse. But the white Audi station wagon above didn't get that memo, and made a wide turn to pull in front-ways. The bicycl…

11/05/2015

ALTERNATIVE TABLE Fresh Eggs and More...

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/alternative-table-fresh-eggs-and-more-at-la-caridad-farm/

By KAREN GAY Cape Charles Wave May 11, 2015 It was one of the few sunny spring days when Luis Echevarria and I wandered down the grassy path towards the poultry enclosure at the 40-acre La Caridad Farm in Parksley. As we approached, I noticed a large white goose honking furiously at us. This is…

11/05/2015

Old School ‘Now Leasing’ (with Illegal Sign)

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CAPE CHARLES WAVE May 11, 2015 Everything about the Old School giveaway has been either illegal or underhanded, so no surprise that the NOW LEASING sign was also put up illegally. The sign is erected on VDOT right-of-way, to begin with. During last year's heated local elections, town officials were…

11/05/2015

INTERSECTION: What the . . . ???

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CAPE CHARLES WAVE May 11, 2015 Resembling ancient symbols in the sand, the array of lines at right depict a proposed Los Angeles-style reworking of the intersection of Stone Road and Route 13 -- Cape Charles's only traffic light (at the sign of the "S"). Northampton Supervisor Granville Hogg dubs it…

08/05/2015

In Defense of Meat and Other Animal Products

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/05/in-defense-of-meat-and-other-animal-products/

By KAREN GAY Wave Columnist May 4, 2015 This continues my previous article about the Weston A. Price Foundation’s dietary principles. I’ll discuss the Foundation’s belief that health is best found in a diet of unprocessed, traditional foods containing some sort of animal product, be it fish, shellf…

08/05/2015

ANNUAL MEETING: CBES, Shorekeeper Pledge to ‘Protect and Defend What We Love’

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By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave May 4, 2015 The Eastern Shore of Virginia is considered one of the last pristine coastal wilderness zones left on the east coast. For many, the last few years have seemed like a battle to preserve the quality and well-being of these delicate coastal waters. Maintaini…

27/04/2015

SHORE THING: Eastville Inn Fails Again

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/shore-thing-eastville-inn-fails-again/

By GEORGE SOUTHERN Wave Columnist April 27, 2015 A little shy of two years ago, Eastville resident and Wave student journalist Sarah Gollibart wrote an article entitled “Eastville Inn Rises Again.” It went on to become one of the Wave’s most-read stories of the year, so I know that a lot of folks ar…

27/04/2015

Strawberry Street Corridor Project and Former Northampton Hotel OK’d by Harbor Review Board

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/strawberry-street-corridor-project-and-former-northampton-hotel-okd-by-harbor-review-board/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave April 27, 2015 The Cape Charles Harbor Area Review Board reviewed two high profile projects April 20 -- the former Northampton Hotel at 1 Mason Avenue, and Patrick Hand’s Strawberry Street Corridor project. Both projects mean a lot to the rehabilitation and restorati…

22/04/2015

WAYNE CREED Dishes it out to Town Council (Again)

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/wayne-creed-dishes-it-out-to-town-council-again/

By WAYNE CREED Wave Columnist April 20, 2015 On this day, April 16, 2015, the Cape Charles Town Council met for its Regular Meeting, and Mayor George Proto announced it to be National Proclamation Day. Town Council then proceeded to the business of approving several new proclamations, including Nati…

14/04/2015

Bennett, Wendell Rip Apart Town Comprehensive Plan

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/04/bennett-wendell-rip-apart-town-comprehensive-plan/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave April 13, 2015 After over two years and close to $8,000 in consultant fees, the Cape Charles Planning Commission produced an updated Comprehensive Plan and submitted it for review by Town Council. But at the April 7 joint Town Council/Planning Commission meeting, two…

06/04/2015

County Proposes Higher Taxes, Less Money for Schools

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By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave April 6, 2015 There was standing room only March 31 at the public hearing on the Northampton County proposed budget. As a show of support, students, teachers, and administrators from the county schools were on hand, wearing Kiptopeke t-shirts and holding signs that r…

01/04/2015

County Planning Commission Hears Discouraging Data

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/03/county-planning-commission-hears-discouraging-data/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave March 30, 2015 The Northampton County Planning Commission met March 25 to continue amending the zoning and land use map. County Long Range Planner Peter Stith provided information, data, and aerial imagery to Commissioners Mike Ward, Jacqueline Chatmon, Sylvia Stanle…

30/03/2015

An Afternoon Chat with Mayor Proto

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/03/a-sit-down-chat-with-mayor-proto/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave March 30, 2014 Mayor George Proto has begun holding "office hours" twice monthly for an hour at the Cape Charles Civic Center, and last week the Wave took that opportunity for an interview. Proto holds degrees from Drexel (BS Physics) and University of Virginia (PhD…

27/03/2015

LETTER: Supervisors’ Complacence Threatens County

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/03/letter-supervisors-complacence-threatens-county/

March 23, 2015 DEAR EDITOR, My wife and I attended the zoning informational meeting at Kiptopeke School this week. While discussing the zoning with one of the Supervisors present we were told that he believes the majority of people in the county actually support the proposed zoning but are simply no…

26/03/2015

Jack White: County Supervisor, Bridge-Tunnel Commissioner, Shore Memorial Board Member

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March 26, 2015 John "Jack" Williams White, Sr., 88, passed away Wednesday, March 25, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox. A graveside service will be conducted 2 p.m. Sunday, March 29, at Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery with Rev. Daniel Crockett and Rev. Jonathan Carpenter officiatin…

26/03/2015

Rezoning ‘Information Session’ Turns into Showdown

http://capecharleswave.com/2015/03/rezoning-information-session-turns-into-showdown/

By WAYNE CREED Cape Charles Wave March 23, 2015 After several delays, the winter weather finally relented and allowed Northampton County to conduct two Public Information Sessions for the county's proposed zoning ordinance. Although the event was sparsely populated, those in attendance were eager to…

23/03/2015

Town Beach Replenishment and Bay Creek Erosion

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TOWN BEACH REPLENISHMENT AND BAY CREEK EROSION March 23, 2015 -- At top, Craig Richardson's drone equipped with fisheye lens provides a dramatic shot of Cape Charles public beach's new real estate, courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers, who are dredging the harbor channel and pumping the spoil ont…