Show Choir Camp: The Blue Ridge Show Choir Camp will be held from Monday through Thursday in the Jefferson High School Auditorium. The camp will consist of two sessions: 9 a.m. — noon and 1 — 5 p.m. The morning session is for 6th – 12th grade students and the afternoon session is for 9th [...]
Continue reading …Breakfasts and lunches are open to all children, ages 18 and under, as part of the Jefferson County Summer Food Service Program. There is no financial requirement necessary to participate. All children may participate in these meals. Meals will be served at the following locations: • Ranson Elementary School, 600 Preston Street, Ranson, from June [...]
Continue reading …Fair winners Jessica Ballard and Chad Wall, Jefferson High School, were awarded first place in the state Social Studies Fair. They swept each of the divisions in this year’s Fair. Hunter Palmer and Cole Resitrup, of Harpers Ferry Middle School, Won second place in the state Social Fair Division Two, the largest division at the [...]
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Washington High’s first four-year class of 241 students graduated Saturday afternoon in a ceremony held in the gym of the Butcher Center at Shepherd University. Washington High School opened in 2007. For decades, the consolidated Jefferson High School had been the county’s school high school, but the county’s population growth in recent years prompted school [...]
Continue reading …Students at Page Jackson Elementary School have a long history of jumping rope and for 29 years they’ve helped raise $152,125.46 for the American Heart Association. This year, students and staff raised $6,339.53. The project was begun by William Reed, a former physical education teacher at the school more than a quarter of a century [...]
Continue reading …Essay contest winner: Roula Hammer, a fifth-grade student at the Morgan Academy, has won first place in West Virginia in an American history essay contest sponsored by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The local Pack Horse Ford chapter of the NSDAR announced news of the award at the chapter’s annual [...]
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