Benjamin Franklin’s proverb, “Remember that time is money,” was a motivating principle for generations of American inventors and entrepreneurs. Their objective was to accomplish a task more quickly and efficiently. In the transportation industry, automobiles gradually became more reliable an…
CHARLES TOWN – Ben Salango had a strong hunch that if Kanawha County built it, they would come.
Woody Thrasher, now a Republican candidate for governor, was serving as West Virginia’s secretary of commerce when state and local officials announced with fanfare July 5, 2017, that the Danish company Rockwool had agreed to buy 130 acres near Kearneysville to build and operate a 460,000-squ…
CHARLES TOWN – The man with West Virginia’s most prominent name in construction and development projects is running for governor.
While isolating at home it’s good to have a hobby or take up an activity that absorbs your interest. I listen to bird songs each morning and anticipate new bird arrivals from the South. Mid-February I heard the first redwings and an eastern meadowlark. A phoebe started singing around the en…
CHARLES TOWN – Four people are running for Jefferson County sheriff this year, but voters will winnow the field of two Republican candidates during the June 9 primary.
CHARLES TOWN – Now midway through the fourth consecutive week of steadily easing statewide coronavirus restrictions, more Jefferson County workplaces, businesses and recreation outlets are reopening.
The following is a list of vendors for the Charles Town Farmers Market. The first category, 'VENDORS' represents merchants who are frequently at the market each week. 'OTHER VENDORS' represent merchants who have participated in the past and plan to be at the market in the future. "NONFOOD" …
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of just about every public event, including the Charles Town Farmers Market.
CHARLES TOWN – Should four provisional ballots cast in Harpers Ferry’s municipal election on June 11 be counted?
CHARLES TOWN – Ten candidates are competing in the June 9 primary to serve on three Jefferson County Board of Education seats.
CHARLES TOWN – The group of people, including three alleged killers, had returned from a party at a Pagan motorcycle gang clubhouse in Falling Waters just before a fight broke out in the Westminster, Maryland, apartment where the events leading to the murder of Jonathan Riddle began.
HARPERS FERRY – Mayor Wayne Bishop has joined unnamed “other Harpers Ferry residents” in filing a formal notice of their intent to sue the West Virginia Economic Development Authority over legislation allowing the state officials to take over the town’s authority to review and approve the lo…
CHARLES TOWN – Jefferson County is gradually rousing back to life after a six-week coronavirus hibernation.
CHARLES TOWN – A summer schooling break could be short-lived for more Jefferson County students this year.
With the coronavirus restrictions halting classroom learning for a quarter of the current academic year, summer school programs might benefit many more students to keep their education development on track and on pace.
As the state of West Virginia enters the third week of reopening businesses and society in general, we are all trying to move past the COVID-19 pandemic and take a moment to breathe a sigh of relief.
In the days after West Virginia Governor Jim Justice gave Charles Town the green light to resume live racing on Thursday, May 14, trainers began making plans to have their horses ready for the return as nearly 125 runners headed to the track for published workouts last Saturday morning, incl…
In what has become an unanticipated new trend in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, Charles Town offered a solid card on Saturday night amid very limited onlookers as the general public was prohibited from attending a program that typically would have drawn a solid gathering of spectators.
On Monday, May 25, 2020, Frank Cavalier of Harpers Ferry, WV, passed away at age 90. Frank was born in Harpers Ferry on November 12, 1929 to Kenneth and Charlotte Cavalier. After graduating from Harpers Ferry High School, he enlisted in the Navy for four years, touring the world on the USS …
Katherine Lucille Trussell Wade, 93, of Roanoke, Va., passed away suddenly on Sunday, May 17, 2020.
Delores Marie Taylor 72, of Purcellville, Virginia passed away on Wednesday May 20, 2020 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax, Virginia.
Ronald Lee “Ronnie” Propst passed away peacefully in his home Friday, May 22, 2020 surrounded by family and friends by his side.
Sandra Kay Chamblin, 54, of Harpers Ferry, passed away Sunday, May 17, 2020, at the Berkeley Medical Center. Born November 16, 1965, in Winchester, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late George Ernest Chamblin and Helen Mae Ramsburg Chamblin. She was the Director of Small Wonders Daycare.
Iris Jean Courtright, 86, of Kearneysville, WV passed away on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, WV.
Sara R. Yutzey, 92, of Charles Town passed away Sunday, May 24, 2020. Services and Interment will be in private. Arrangements are by the Melvin T. Strider Colonial Funeral Home, Charles Town, WV.
Gary Campbell Rutherford, 82, of Harpers Ferry, WV passed away Thursday, May 14, 2020 at Loudoun INOVA in Leesburg, VA.
