Local News

'A Wide Place in the Road': New magazine to highlight stories of Appalachian, good people

SHEPHERDSTOWN — For 41 years, the Good News Paper provided local residents with a printed forum in which to share their thoughts, poetry, event information and photographs. But then the COVID-19 Pandemic hit, and the Shepherdstown Ministerial Association, which founded and managed the newspaper, decided it was time to cease publication. When one of the longtime contributors to the Good News Paper, Shepherdstown resident Todd Cotgreave, heard the news, he was heartbroken. “It hurt to hear that the Good News Paper was ending. It was a staple of the community,” Cotgreave, who has ...

West Virginia native to be first to have play featured in Contemporary American Theater Festival

'Color Our World': Library celebrates start of Summer Reading Program with kickoff party

Crooked Crow: Small business shares Shepherdstown resident's passion for plants

Local sports

Season over as Cougars fall twice in Regional against Hedgesville

SHENANDOAH JUNCTION -- Scoring just seven runs in the three-game Regional series wasn't enough for Jefferson High School, as the 2025 Cougar season was abruptly finished last Saturday when Hedgesville High School, which lost the opener of the best-of-three series, came back to beat the ...

Phillips wins two longer races in Charleston; Ogden and relay take firsts as does Allen in boy’s sprint event

Cougars vs. Hedgesville; WVU placed in Clemson Regional for playoffs

Spring Mills puts the ‘field’ back in ‘track and field,’ in winning Region 2 meet

The Town Page

Changing the poles

Pride Month kicks off with bustling weekend full of LGBTQ+ events in Shepherdstown

Goodbye, gallery!

Moving with the music

County News

Congratulations, Class of 2025!

Prominent Shepherdstown property close to completion of major makeover

‘Hidden gems’: Crowds come out to view historic homes on 67th annual House and Garden Tour

Labor of love continues to keep memory of Andrew Rotruck alive

Obituaries

Santa Elizabeth Householder

Joseph J. Snyder

Dorcas Ann Ramsburg

Z. Bernadean Jackson

Editorials

Time to prepare for winter weather

Last week was named Winter Weather Awareness Week by Gov. Jim Justice and the West Virginia Emergency Management Division, in collaboration with the NOAA/National Weather Service and ReadyWV. With the approach of winter in the next few weeks, Justice's announcement was well-timed, ensuring ...

Heeding the warning bells

Evans finally made the right choice

‘For the 95 that have died’

Letters To The Editor

How to fix West Virginia’s foster care system

U.S. District Judge Goodwin’s statement in February about West Virginia’s foster care system — calling out years of inaction, bureaucratic indifference, shocking neglect and temporary fixes — is painfully accurate. There is plenty of blame to go around. Blame, however, leads nowhere. ...