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When the Division of Highways within West Virginia’s Department of Transportation prepares to undertake a road-building or maintenance project, it seeks bids on the work from qualified contractors in a process that is transparent to the public and subject to legislative oversight. Similarly, the state’s School Building Authority works with counties in openly seeking bids [...]
Continue reading …The Commonwealth of Virginia, from its founding in 1776 to the time of the Civil War, had virtually a split personality. Its eastern section featuring “the planters,” took great advantage of its plurality of delegates to the Legislature by electing their favorites to high positions in government. In fact, the first 31 of the state’s [...]
Continue reading …Out crept a mouse “The mountains were said to be in labor and uttered most dreadful groans. People came together far and near to see what birth would be produced; and, after they waited a great while in expectation, out crept a Mouse.” — Aesop’s Fables Assume that the “expectation” was over a year’s wait [...]
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RANSON – A quarter mile of redbuds and other native trees have been planted to beautify the scenery for users of the bike and pedestrian trail along W.Va. 9. The 162 trees were paid for by Project CommuniTree, a state project that implements tree planting initiatives for community beautification and in order to reduce runoff [...]
Continue reading …SHEPHERDSTOWN – Shepherdstown’s tiny public library has been awarded a big chunk of funding from the West Virginia Library Commission. Officials in Shepherdstown plan to use the $25,000 in the effort to construct a larger library just outside of downtown. Meanwhile, the nonprofit Friends of Shepherdstown Library is seeking donations for its book sale fundraiser [...]
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CHARLES TOWN – With a Saturday deadline to name a replacement for Pete Dougherty, Jefferson County’s four school board members Monday night turned to a familiar name: Larry Togans, who served on the body from 1994 to 2002. Togans, a former school board president and 10-year member of the school system’s Cultural Diversity Committee, won [...]
Continue reading …CHARLES TOWN – A local farmer, a current Board of Zoning Appeals member and a former county commissioner were chosen last week to replace three outgoing Planning Commission members. Wade Louthan, Darlene Truman and Gary Phalen were appointed after three rounds of voting at Thursday’s County Commission meeting. Planning Commission members William Kelly Baty, Morgan [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON – Sen. Herb Snyder says a bill that would reduce the costs to Maryland taxpayers for providing MARC commuter train services into Jefferson and Berkeley Counties has a good shot at being passed by the House of Delegates. The bill – Senate Bill 103 or the Commuter Rail Access Act – is currently in [...]
Continue reading …CHARLESTON – Delegates Tiffany Lawrence and Paul Espinosa, who both serve on the House Education Committee, agree that education reforms that appear poised to become law during this legislative session has not gone far enough toward addressing the state’s underperforming education system. Espinosa said he sees this as a major missed opportunity. “I think there [...]
Continue reading …CHARLES TOWN — A Maryland man was killed Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a car not far from the McDonald’s restaurant in Charles Town. Andrew Orville Oey Kuntaraf, 33, of Laurel was pronounced dead at Jefferson Memorial Hospital after the crash, which occurred about 4:38 p.m. at East Washington Street [...]
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