Scorchy Tawes wasn’t much of a hard-hitting journalist. Thank God. Western Shore people didn’t get to see his work on WBOC-TV unless they crossed the Chesapeake Bay, and that’s a pity. Tawes, who ...

Charles Norris “Scorchy” Tawes, a former roving reporter and photographer for WBOC-TV who traveled the back roads, villages and towns of the Delmarva Peninsula recording the life stories of the folks ...

SALISBURY — A local television icon best known for his love of the outdoors died Monday just days after his 86th birthday. You must be logged in to rate. Click any rating to login.

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Scorchy Tawes’ career at WBOC began in May of 1975 and would feature hundreds of stories about the peninsula he loved and the every day people who called it home. And, while Scorchy shared the stories ...