SHEPHERDSTOWN – It’s been nearly two years since the 10-mile W.Va. 9 Bike Path opened to the public, and some community leaders say it’s time to do more to attract cyclists to the Panhandle. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of this article is exclusive, use Cleeng again [...]
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SHEPHERDSTOWN — The biggest stumbling block toward converting the former Shepherstown landfill to a new public library is also its biggest asset, according to the director of the state’s brownfields assistance center. Brownfields are abandoned and contaminated lands, such as landfills, that through reclamation may be made available for re-use. What often holds back development [...]
Continue reading …CHARLES TOWN – It’s nearly time for Jefferson County to name its 2012 Distinguished Citizen, an honor to be unveiled June 27 at the county chamber of commerce’s annual awards dinner. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of this article is exclusive, use Cleeng again to view it. [...]
Continue reading …CHARLES TOWN – Some area residents and members of the building community are at odds over a proposal being considered by the Jefferson County Commission that would extend the approvals of developers’ construction plans. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of this article is exclusive, use Cleeng again [...]
Continue reading …It was just four years ago that West Virginia lawmakers came up with a resolution to a threat by MARC to curtail rail service into West Virginia by settling on a plan that would require riders to pay a surcharge of $2 a day. Just how permanent that solution was became evident earlier this year [...]
Continue reading …On the evening of Dec. 27, 2010, Mark Daniel Haines was engaged in a dangerous enterprise; that much we can agree on. Haines, of Harpers Ferry, was on the run from Jefferson County Sheriff Bobby Shirley following a failed attempt to rob a bank in Ranson, and thereafter led sheriff’s deputies from both Berkeley and [...]
Continue reading …Shameful oversight I was happy to learn that my neighbor was graduating from Jefferson High School in the Class of 2012 and delighted to receive a graduation announcement. My pleasure ended there. The graduation announcement which was provided to students at Jefferson High School contains a grammatical error. The word “its,” a possessive pronoun which [...]
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It’s still not clear just how far state and county officials might be willing to go in terms of tax breaks to help Century Aluminum agree to reopen a plant that has been closed since February 2009. But a critical 3-2 decision by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals last week that denied an [...]
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The Maryland state trooper parked and hidden in the grassy median must have seen me before I saw him, for within a moment he was riding alongside me in the next lane flagging me to pull over, post-haste. My violation: an absolute failure to be barricaded into my moving vehicle via a lap and shoulder [...]
Continue reading …CHARLES TOWN – Jefferson County’s schools chief is defending a proposal to change how planning happens in middle schools here. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of this article is exclusive, use Cleeng again to view it. The rest of this article is exclusive, , click “buy” and [...]
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