SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Community members enjoy walking again on the pedestrian bridge in Harpers Ferry over the weekend. The bridge, which reopened on Friday after being damaged by a train derailment in Dec. 2019, crosses the Potomac River into Maryland.
HARPERS FERRY - One year after opening in Lower Town Harpers Ferry, Hamilton's Tavern 1840 celebrated by moving this spring to a new location, at 914 Washington Street.The new location offers more space than its previous one.Owners Jeremiah and Anthony Brooks decorated the new restaurant with ...
HARPERS FERRY - Reports have shown that engineer error is to blame in the Dec. 2019 train derailment in Harpers Ferry that left seven cars over the tracks and destroyed portions of the pedestrian bridge across the Potomac River.The accident occurred in the early morning hours of Dec. 21 when ...
HILLSBORO, Va. - As the government continues to encourage commuters to work from home and local residents to partake in minimal travel, the decision has been made to continue working at a maximum level on the ReThink9 project, a comprehensive traffic-calming, pedestrian safety and ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- The Jefferson County Development Authority has been working to regain trust throughout the county over the past couple of years, since its work to lure the Denmark-based company, Rockwool, to the county brought it into public disgrace. As a result of the situation, 12 of the ...
SHENANDOAH JUNCTION - With the lifting of some COVID-19 restrictions, Jefferson County Parks and Recreation has been able to open up some of its regular summer camps and other activities."We love what we do and offering programs to the community, so we are very happy to get back to what we do. ...
CHARLES TOWN -- VFW Post 3522, in Charles Town, began the Veteran's Table project just before the COVID-19 outbreak and plans to continue hosting it through the fall.Once a month, veterans receive free groceries at the post home on Liberty Street. According to Auxiliary President Lynne Casto, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Over 130 people attended the Ranson Town Council Special Meeting on Tuesday night. The meeting, which was held in Ranson's Town Hall and available for the public to view on Zoom, gave time for Rockwool and its local opponents to present their cases regarding the passage of ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- While many people have been experiencing a slower life, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, one local group has done anything but slow down. The Jefferson County Foundation, Inc., has kept up its work to prevent Rockwool's plant in the former location of Jefferson ...
CHARLES TOWN-After a day-long effort to tally more than 771 additional votes, the Jefferson County Commission released updated numbers from the June 9 Primary Election Monday evening.Commissioners, along with staff from the County Clerk's elections office, painstakingly worked their way through ...
