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County Drafts Zoning Changes To Encourage Commercial & Residential Clusters

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Jefferson County Fair 2025 Gallery

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Adam Booth

Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Renews Itself Again, and Again

April 21, 2016 Tagged With: revitalization, Shepherdstown

When I first moved here sixteen years ago, Shepherdstown was seeing a new wave of neo-hippies in town, the seventh-or-so such wave since the ‘60s. Drumming was a regular activity at The Wall; dreads seemed to be more popular than grey hair; and where Kazu is now, there was a shop called Dragonfly—full of tie-dye, sarongs, and guayaberas. Read the Full Story >>

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