There are four House of Delegate districts in Jefferson County. Read the Full Story >>
In Print Oct 2022
John Doyle – 2022 Jefferson County Commission Candidate
John Doyle is the 2022 Democratic Party candidate for the Shepherdstown seat on the Jefferson County Commission. Read the Full Story >>
Jennifer Krouse – 2022 Jefferson County Commission Candidate
Jennifer Krouse is the 2022 Democratic Party candidate for the Shepherdstown seat on the Jefferson County Commission. Read the Full Story >>
Clare Anne Ath – 2022 Jefferson County Commission Candidate
Clare Anne Ath is the 2022 Republican Party candidate for Charles Town seat on the Jefferson County Commission. Read the Full Story >>
Dale Manuel – 2022 Jefferson County Commission Candidate
Dale Manuel is the 2022 Democratic Party candidate for Charles Town seat on the Jefferson County Commission. Read the Full Story >>
David Tabb – 2022 Jefferson County Commission Candidate
David Tabb is the 2022 Mountain Party candidate for the Charles Town seat on the Jefferson County Commission. Read the Full Story >>
Danielle Corsetto & Elephant Town
Corsetto’s current project is Elephant Town, a graphic novel that she updates on a biweekly (ish) schedule on its own website. “It’s a passion project,” she says, about the drama set in Shepherdstown. Read the Full Story >>
Bushel & Peck Celebrates Five Years
Todd Coyle, the chief executive of Jefferson G.A.P., describes Bushel & Peck when it opened in October 2017 as a “sustainable, locally focused grocery store in the heart of downtown Charles Town.” In a more recent conversation, he described a larger vision, with the grocery store as a “business incubator — the hub of a network of local businesses that need a way to connect with local consumers.” Read the Full Story >>
Battlefield Advances on Preservation
The ground around Jefferson County is littered with history. Literally. “I got a call a few weeks ago from a kayaker who was paddling along the shore in front of the cement kiln along the Potomac River downstream from Shepherdstown. Read the Full Story >>
Local School Receives Award
C.W. Shipley, the public elementary school in Harpers Ferry, was recently recognized by the Blue Ribbon School Program as an Exemplary High-Performing School. Only 297 schools nationwide (including two others in West Virginia) received this recognition in 2022. Read the Full Story >>
Local Artists Open Studios in November
This year’s Over the Mountain Studio Tour is scheduled for November 12 & 13 (Sat & Sun). The tour route includes 8 local studios, with 17 of the Eastern Panhandle’s most passionate artisans participating to present (and sell) work. Read the Full Story >>
A Time Satire at Shepherd University Theater
The Thanksgiving Play, written by 2020 McArthur Fellow Larissa Fasthorse, is intended to be funny, edgy, and serious. A group of terminally “woke” actors struggle to create a play for a local elementary school that presents a balanced history of the first Thanksgiving, trying to include all perspectives but without offending anyone. Read the Full Story >>
Securing Life and Liberty for All
When what we might think of as history is still present in the minds of the living, the need for an emphatic rejection of groups that seek to instigate race-based fear and political violence seems to be self-evident — so that “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” are secured as rights of our common future, not just hollow words left behind, buried by the burden of a hidden past. Read the Full Story >>
Readers Share Some Nature Tricks & Treats
As we spend time outside studying nature, it’s reassuring to observe familiar things year after year. And yet there always remains an element of surprise. Two readers shared their most recent nature surprises with me this past month. Read the Full Story >>
Haunted by the Unresolved
The Wild Hunt, a debut novel by Emma Seckel, is a ghost story of the very best kind, reflecting our own experiences in which we never quite know if the ghosts are real or conjured up by ourselves in the throes of our own heartaches. Read the Full Story >>