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ROMNEY (AP) — A volunteer firefighter from Gore, Va., is dead after the tanker truck his father was driving crashed on a mutual aid call in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle. State Police identified the victim as 21-year-old Zachary Whitacre. He and his father, Donald, were helping with a structure fire in the Hampshire County town [...]
Continue reading …BURNSVILLE (AP) — Burnsville Lake is being lowered 2 feet for dredging and maintenance on a boat launch ramp. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the work is expected to be completed by Feb. 17. The Corps says a buildup of silt over the past two years has made it impossible to launch a [...]
Continue reading …Students from Charles Town Middle School, Harpers Ferry Middle School, Wildwood Middle School and Washington High School were selected to participate in the WV American Choral Directors Association’s Jr. High/Middle School All-State Chorus. Over 200 students from across West Virginia gathered in Charleston on February 2 − 4 under the direction of guest conductor Dr. [...]
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CHARLES TOWN — The state’s cultural affairs office is demanding that the Division of Highways retract its approval of a request by the developer of a proposed retail pharmacy in the downtown. In a strongly worded Feb.10 letter to a state highways project engineer and engineering division director, Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer Susan M. [...]
Continue reading …BRYAN CLARK Spirit Staff CHARLES TOWN – A local man has been hospitalized with serious injuries after he was involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer while crossing U.S. Rt. 340 Tuesday morning. Scott Michael Hundley, 18, of Harpers Ferry had been crossing U.S. 340 when he struck the side of a northbound tractor-trailer driven [...]
Continue reading …BRYAN CLARK Spirit Staff CHARLES TOWN – The County Commission eliminated the Department of Capital Planning and Management, as well as the position of its director, at today’s meeting. The decision came in a 3-2 vote, with Commissioners Frances Morgan and Lyn Widmyer voting against it. The department had been in charge of administering impact [...]
Continue reading …The race for the 16th Senate District has opened with both candidates expressing mutual respect and promising a polite, positive, issues-based campaign. Incumbent Democrat Herb Snyder will vie with Republican Jim Ruland for the seat. They are both former Jefferson County commissioners, and Ruland worked with Snyder as the commission’s legislative liason. “I thought he [...]
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A group of ‘hacktivists’ has targeted the state police chiefs’ assocation as part of a larger operation against police groups across the nation. The FBI is currently investigating the incident. The outfit, calling itself ‘CabinCr3w,’ claims to be affiliated with the group Anonymous, which rose to notoriety last year when its members crashed the websites [...]
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HARPERS FERRY – The Harpers Ferry Town Council has authorized new measures to help modernize its tax system and crack down on tax evaders. Enforcement of the Business and Occupations tax has proved problematic for the town because its enforcement mechanisms are based on since-repealed state statutes. “Our ordinances are based on a repealed state [...]
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