N. Virginia Student Wins Jr. Duck Stamp Art Competition

Admin | March 26, 2010

By Windy Mason  Xiao Xiao Zhang of Herndon was the Best of Show winner for the Jr. Duck Stamp Art Competition held at the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Friday, March 19. Xiao studies art through Xing Art Studio. Runners up, all of which took first place, are Elizabeth Kim from Vienna, schooled by Erae [...]

Voice of Confidence Despite Mountain to Move

Admin | March 9, 2010

  By Windy Mason After 23 years working in the maintenance department for the Virginia end Assateague Island National, Ish Ennis was promoted to chief of maintenance last September 1; and took over the office at the Maryland Visitor Center, in charge of the entire barrier island seashore. Two and a half months later, the [...]

Grandmother, 72, and Her Girls Follow Childhood Dream to Chincoteague

Admin | March 1, 2010

  By Tammy Rickman In 1839 English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote, “…the pen is mightier than the sword.” Though I suspect he coined the term with somewhat more purposeful intentions, they rang no less true for less intense purposes. Not unlike Mr. Lytton, Marguerite Henry is famous in her own right for her stories of [...]