Vote goes against pleas of deceased boy’s mother
BY CAROL VAUGHN
FROM FRONT
PARKSLEY — The Accomack County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday failed to endorse a grant application that would fund the study of widening Chincoteague Causeway.
The vote against the project came despite the impassioned plea of the mother of a boy who died in a horrific [...]
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