No serious injuries in Shenandoah Junction fire
BRYAN CLARK Spirit Staff SHENANDOAH JUNCTION – There have been no serious injuries in the house fire in Shenandoah Junction. The fire at a home on 1st Street engulfed large portions of the home for a time. Initial scanner traffic indicated that an individual might have been trapped in the home, but firefighters on the [...]
MARTINSBURG (AP) — A West Virginia woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for trying to arrange the murder of a Virginia resident. U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II says 50-year-old Brenda Lee Swisher of Augusta was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge John Preston Baily. Swisher pleaded guilty in January to [...]
Continue reading …WHEELING (AP) — A Northern Panhandle legislator who pleaded guilty to drunken driving says he’s changed his mind and won’t resign from the House of Delegates. The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register reports that Democratic Del. Ryan Ferns of Ohio County says he won’t resign, but hasn’t decided whether to withdraw his re-election bid. Ferns received [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON (AP) — More West Virginia public school students will be allowed to eat breakfast and lunch at school for free beginning in the fall. State education officials say West Virginia is one of only four states to be selected to participate in the Community Eligibility Option for the coming school year. Under this program, [...]
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HARPERS FERRY – The new director of the Harpers Ferry Job Corps Center said he is working hard to improve the prospects of students graduating and entering the job market. 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 [...]
Continue reading …I had planned to write this after the new CVS retail store being built in Charles Town was finished and the changes to the downtown streetscape were better understood. Folks would see the actual façade of the store and the context of how it all fit into downtown. Recent events in which a Charles Town [...]
Continue reading …Paying for a ticket to ride Passenger rail service for West Virginia commuters has been unresolved since early this year when the Maryland Transit Administration rolled out a new plan that included the discontinuation of the Maryland Area Regional Commuter train service’s final three westbound stops in Jefferson County and Martinsburg. While [...]
Continue reading …Hats off to parks and recreation I have had the pleasure of serving on the Board of Parks and Recreation with a group of great people for about twenty years. Personally I feel we have done a good job. You might call this bragging. That is okay by me. But there is [...]
Continue reading …CHARLES TOWN – After a nearly four year legal battle that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, a local homeowners association has defeated a plan by its subdivision’s developer that would have carved a cut-through between U.S. 340 and W.Va. 9. This article is exclusive, use Cleeng to view it in full. [...]
Continue reading …MORGANTOWN (AP) — A West Virginia woman is recovering after she was trapped in her wrecked van for almost three days and crawled out to reach help. Authorities in Monongalia County say Veronica McFoy, 41, lost control of her van on a rural road on Monday while traveling to a store. It went over an [...]
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