Cool things happening on the Shore this weekend

Halloween Weekend in Onancock

October 24 – 26, 2025

Join us in Onancock, Virginia for spirited Halloween festivities, taking place from October 24th to 26th. Celebrate the spooky season with a weekend filled with festive activities for all ages. Area homes and businesses go creatively creepy!! From the Mostly true Ghost Tour to North Street Playhouse’s Haunted Asylum, Little Shop of Horrors at the Roseland theater and the wildly weird & wonderful Halloween Parade- there are treats throughout town.

If you want to get into the big fun-anyone is invited to participate in the Parade featuring a Zombie flash-dance, Cacophony Band, Goth Carts or costume-up and strut your stuff. Register and learn more @ https://www.onancock.org/halloween.

Don’t miss this chance to create lasting memories with family and friends. Check out Onancock’s shops, tasty pubs & restaurants on the creepy onancocktail trail. Carve a pumpkin at Town Square. (Great Pumpkin lighting Saturday Night after the parade.) Mark your calendars for this enchanting fall celebration!

Rescheduled Old Fashioned Mud Hop

The rescheduled Old Fashioned Mud Hop at 316 Dirt Drags at the old Byrd Foods Packing Plant in Parksley will be today, October 24, 2025. $10 per person, kids 10 and under are free. Gates open at 8:00 AM, racing begins at 12:30 PM.

Boys & Girls Basketball Training Camp

This event will be held on October 25th at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Atlantic, Virginia. It is open to the public, both boys and girls. Bring the kids out to keep them active and help them continue to build skill in the world of basketball. Never played but interested? Come out! Have some skills but want to continue to build? Come out! Each age group will have the opportunity for a scrimmage game at the end of their time slot. You can sign up online or at the door. There will be a light lunch served for each participant. For more info reach out to Coach Jordan Alleyne by phone at 404-717-5918, our website www.esvavipers.com, or our Instagram @esva_viper.

Bloxom Volunteer Fire Company’s Nightmare Acres

Bloxom Volunteer Fire Company’s Nightmare Acres will be at the Bloxom Town Square October 17, 18, 24, 25 and 31st. $15 general admission and $25 for a full contact experience. Fast passes at $10 and food & drink are for sale. Don’t miss a haunting good time!

Eastern Shore Cruisers Ax Out Cancer Event

To benefit  Riverside Cancer Center

October 25th, 2025. Rain date : Nov. 1st

Held at “Sandpiper Marine” on US RT 13 in Tasley , Virginia.

The largest show on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Registration starts at 8:30am.

Judging Starts at Noon.

Fee is $20.00 per vehicle & ESC Club members @ $15.

Approx.. 60 Trophies in 9 different Categories.

Door prizes every 30 minutes.

Auction at 2:00 &  Trophies at 3:00

Music all day by DJ, listen and dance.

Food will be available.

Great time to be had by all for a great cause!

For information call 757-710-5185

Riverside Hosts Prescription Drug Take Back Day for Safe Disposal

The US Drug Enforcement Agency encourages the proper and safe disposal of unused and expired prescription medications as one method of combatting medication misuse, overdoses and overdose deaths.

Unused prescription drugs can find their way into the wrong hands, and the outcome can be dangerous or even tragic.  Disposing of unused or expired medications in the trash can endanger humans who are looking for drugs or animals who are looking for food, and flushing the medications can endanger the local water supply.

In partnership with the Accomack County Sheriff’s office and the Community Services Board, Riverside will host a medication collection event at the Riverside Onancock campus on October 25th, the DEA’s semi-annual National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.

On that day, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., community members can conveniently and anonymously hand over unwanted medications in a secure drive-through event at Riverside and be assured of safe disposal.  Riverside cannot accept liquids, needles or sharps, only pills or patches.  Signage on the campus will direct participants where to go.  In case of inclement weather, the event will be moved indoors.

ACC Group Presents Bingo Night

Haunted Corn Maze

Come experience our Haunted Corn Maze. Every Saturday in October and Halloween night as well. 16+$10, 3-15 $5, 3 and under free

Exmore Rotary’s Soule Arnold Oyster Roast & Clam Steam

Exmore Rotary Club’s Annual Soule Arnold Oyster Roast and Clam Steam. 5:00 – 8:30 PM, under the Big Tent in the Exmore Town Park. All you can eat seaside oysters, nick clams, clam chowder, pulled pork BBQ, coleslaw, veggies & dessert. Cash bar(beer & wine). $70 a person, tickets are available at the door or by calling (757)442-7081.

Onancock Baptist Church First Responders Appreciation Day

St. John’s Baptist Church 140th Anniversary

Sunday October 26, 2:00 P.M. 

St. John’s Baptist Church of Onancock, VA. will be in celebration of its One Hundred Fortieth Church Anniversary . All are cordially invited to share in this celebration. Pastor George Holmes and the St. Mark Church Family of Melfa, Va. will be among our Guests.