CHARLES TOWN – Gary Kerns still hasn’t given up hope for his missing youngest son, 39-year-old Jimmy.

CHARLES TOWN – Two 18-year-olds have been charged with attempted murder stemming from an apparent quarrel that ended in a daylight shooting Monday during which multiple gunshots were fired on a neighborhood street in Charles Town.

CHARLES TOWN —Frances Benjamin Johnston, a West Virginia woman,  made her living as a photographer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, preserving sites and people important to our nation’s history. This was at a time when not many woman pursued this type of career. A remarkable collec…

SHENANDOAH JUNCTION—A series of Town Hall meetings will be held in the county during the next few months to get the help of area teachers in making revisions to West Virginia codes 18 and 18-A, which govern education issues in the state.

CHARLES TOWN—The delta variant of COVID-19 has been found in Jefferson County, which is a disturbing discovery considering half of county residents have not been vaccinated.

From Staff Reports

On June 1st, 1889 the Potomac River crested at 39.2 feet at Shepherdstown, establishing the record high-water mark to that date. The 1889 flood washed the Shepherdstown bridge away, and when the directors of the Virginia & Maryland Bridge Company decided to re-build, they prudently deter…

Webster’s Dictionary says that flagging is to signal with or as with a flag, which makes it a transitive verb.  Also, as an intransitive verb it could mean to become limp, droop.

SHEPHERDSTOWN—It has been a tough journey the past year and a half for the annual Contemporary American Theater Festival but CATF representatives along with the community have taken on the challenges in a very different way.

CHARLES TOWN – The past, present and future of race in Jefferson County education became a sharp focus of discussions this past week inside and outside the red brick building that served as a segregated high school for black students from 1942 until 1965.

CHARLES TOWN – Jefferson Utilities is calling a county Board of Education lawsuit attempting to revoke a 2018 land easement given to the private water utility “a malicious prosecution of a civil action with no basis in law.”

CHARLES TOWN – The political thinkers Aristotle, John Locke and Thomas Jefferson would be flattered. James Madison, an instrumental architect of the U.S. Constitution, would applaud.