The recent closing of the Kanawha (WV) Surgicenter, which left Charleston’s Women’s Health Center (WHC) the state’s only abortion provider, is part of an unnerving national movement decreasing access to women’s reproductive health, experts say. Read the Full Story >>
Charles Town & Ranson
A Push to Revitalize West Virginia’s Downtowns
A robust movement advocating for greater state tax credits for the rehabilitation of historic properties is spreading throughout West Virginia—and is picking up steam in the state’s legislature. Read the Full Story >>
Remodeled Charles Washington Hall to Celebrate Grand Opening
After a remodel nearly 16 years in the making, Charles Town’s Charles Washington Hall is set to have a grand re-opening on April 7 at 10am. Read the Full Story >>
A Love of Food and Family
Pizza, salad, appetizers, wings, subs, burgers, pasta: hungry yet? Well there’s a not-so-secret destination in Ranson that will take care of any or all of those cravings for you. It’s Andy’s Pizza, located conveniently at 733 N. Mildred Street. Owner Andy Colandrea is no stranger to the pizza business; he was born into it. His Read the Full Story >>
A Walk Through Living History in Jefferson County
I met Mr. Washington about a week after Independence Day. Walter Washington, that is, not George. And the year was 2016 not 1776. But it was an odd feeling nonetheless; a brush with the closest thing that America has to a royal family Read the Full Story >>
Briggs Animal Adoption Center Provides More Than Just Shelter
Anna Reynolds was born in D.C. in 1909; her father died when she was three. Her mother was too poor to care for her children, so Anna was placed in an orphanage for four years, then farmed out to an aunt, and finally returned home at 13. She considered her life a parallel to the way animals in a shelter feel. And during those early years, she longed for an animal companion, eventually finding one in an abused dog that she nursed back to health. Read the Full Story >>