KEARNEYSVILLE – After decades of showing off his cattle during the Jefferson County Fair, Don Mickey is stepping back from what has become his family’s summer ritual.
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CHARLES TOWN – The Charles Town Council voted unanimously Monday to ask a judge to dismiss a “blue petition” lawsuit that a citizens group filed to force the council to only approve the construction of a state-financed sewer pipeline by a super-majority.
CHARLES TOWN – The Jackson-Perks American Legion Post 71 social hall in downtown Charles Town has reopened with a revamped canteen and a full lineup of social and dining events, reports Post Commander Tom Hansen.
BOLIVAR—They projectile vomit. They poop and pee on their own feet. Approach them close enough, they’ll hiss loudly at you. But Katie Fallon, founder of the Avian Conservation Center of Appalachia in Morgantown, is more than charmed by vultures, those circling scavengers in the sky. She’s smitten.
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CHARLES TOWN – With the Maryland Transit Administration ready to cut the Eastern Panhandle from six trains a day to just two, residents urge a change in direction.
HAMILTON, Va. – 2020 could be a rough year for many Jefferson County commuters.
Midge Flinn Yost messaged the Spirit of Jefferson’s office last week to ask that we correct the vote tally chart we’ve been running with our weekly coverage of the challenge to June’s municipal election in Harpers Ferry. Yost actually finished the June 11 election with 81 votes, she said, not 80.
