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SHEPHERDSTOWN – It’s been weeks since Shepherd University students returned for the spring semester, but there’s still time for retirees and others to sign up for classes in theater, literature, Shepherdstown’s history, the Civil War, environmental calamities, politics and myriad other subjects. [cleeng_content id="t1" price="0.15" description="Read it now!"]The school’s Lifelong Learning program kicks off March [...]
Continue reading …Jefferson County is among the top two or three counties in the state, statistically, with a high teen pregnancy rate. And, notes Michelle Price, volunteer area director for YoungLives Jefferson County, West Virginia itself is among the top five states in the country. “You can infer that Jefferson County has one of the highest teen [...]
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WINCHESTER, Va. – A new Civil War exhibition here features icons such as abolitionist John Brown and Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson, but reserves most of its spotlight for less-known stories of the conflict’s effects on soldiers, slaves, children and others. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest of this [...]
Continue reading …It’s about time Leap years have been part of the calendar since the days of Julius Caesar. A year is 365 days long, but it takes 365 days and six hours for the earth to go around the sun. Over four years, those extra hours add up to an entire day. A supersized February every four years allows [...]
Continue reading …MARTINSBURG — Growing up in Charles Town in the 1960s, Pam Wagoner remembers getting teased a bit because her Feb. 29 birthday wasn’t on the calendar most years, but she’d begun to see the positives by the time she became a teen. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. The rest [...]
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SHEPHERDSTOWN – Just days before Beau Willimon took his seat at the Oscars, to vie for a statue for Best Adapted Screenplay, his work here during the 2009 Contemporary American Theater Festival was on center stage. In announcing the festival’s summer lineup late last week, CATF founder Ed Herendeen shared with an audience at the [...]
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CHARLES TOWN – A local volunteer coalition is seeking $15,000 in county funding for water monitoring on Blue Ridge streams and on the Shenandoah River. The group hopes the hard data produced by the monitoring program will allow for a real assessment of the area’s impact on the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This article is exclusive, [...]
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Voters in West Virginia have decided the fate of more than 120 amendments to the state’s Constitution at the ballot box starting in 1880. These issues have usually been decided at the regular general elections that occur every two years. But there have been a few instances when special elections were scheduled to consider changes [...]
Continue reading …Gun laws can be reasonable I find it unfortunate the delegate john Doyle’s proposed legislation to limit gun sales to two per month does not gain any traction in Charleston. Once again, this bill will likely not make it to the floor for a vote. The intent is to limit the escalating trafficking of guns [...]
Continue reading …Some weeks back, we used this space to support the building of a CVS drug store at its proposed site of Washington and West streets. While our argument was not fully fleshed out, we concluded that the plan, as proposed, was by and large a good one for a corner drug store. That remains our [...]
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