A&N Electric Cooperative is a member-owned electrical distribution cooperative serving over 35,000 homes, farms, and businesses in Accomack and Northampton Counties on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and Smith Island in Somerset County, Maryland. 

 Cooperatives like us began in the 1930s. At that time, more than 50 years after the first American neighborhood was lighted, rural areas were being left in the dark because it was too expensive to provide electricity. Without power, the simplest of farm chores remained back-breaking work.

Today A&N Electric Cooperative continues to provide electric service to its members in the counties of Accomack and Northampton on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and Smith Island, Maryland. The cooperative is non-profit, with no outside investors. The same refundable $5 fee charged in 1940 is all that is required to become a member. Any profits are returned to customers in the form of capital credits. 

Eastern Shore Community College is the place to go on the Shore for higher education, workforce development, continuing education, and community education.

You can start out at ESCC and end up in any career through either our career and technical education programs or academic transfer programs. ESCC has guaranteed admission agreements with more than 25 Virginia four-year institutions. With careful planning, most or all of your credits will transfer.

We have a scholarship or grant available for almost every student, a laptop lending program for

students who need one, and our students are enjoying success with our recently implented 8-week

class schedules.

The College also offers GED preparation and testing, customized training, and non-credit and personal enrichment courses.

Come experience the "YES!" Initiative that stands for "Your Eastern Shore" and represents our culture

of hospitality and dedicated support of our students. 

Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital (RSMH) in Onancock, Virginia is an accredited, acute care hospital serving residents of and visitors to Virginia’s Eastern Shore. It is a member of the regional Riverside Health System. RSMH features emergency care, critical care, inpatient medical/surgical care, imaging, laboratory diagnostics, cardiology, women’s health including maternity services and more. RSMH is a certified Primary Stroke Center for the diagnosis and treatment of brain attacks and a Chartis Top 100 Rural and Community hospital.

In addition to the hospital, the Onancock campus includes the Riverside Shore Cancer Center including medical oncology and radiation therapy.

Also on the Onancock campus is the Riverside Medical Group at 20486 Market Street, Onancock, Virginia. The Medical Group includes an impressive array of locally-available specialties: Cardiology, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Gynecology, Neurology, Obstetrics, Orthopedics, Podiatry, Pulmonology and Urology.

Other Riverside services on the Shore include home health services, hospice and palliative care services, and primary care providers in Parksley, Nassawadox and Cape Charles.