In 2025, the Shepherdstown community will be celebrating the 1775 Bee Line March with several events in the lovely Morgan's Grove Park. It is important to note, however, that the park's land has nothing to do with the Bee Line March. The park is included in the 1999 National Register of ...
We are very fortunate to have a great library in our community, offering a wide variety of programs and services, free of charge, to a diverse group of patrons. The Shepherdstown Public Library Foundation exists to help ensure the library’s ability to achieve its mission. We help promote, ...
On Aug. 20, 2024, while campaigning for the presidency, Mr. Trump promised to “make America safe again.” And, with some local sheriff’s deputies standing with him, Mr. Trump promised that the police would “see support the likes of which you haven’t seen.” One of Mr. Trump’s first ...
The Historic Shepherdstown Commission and Museum 2025 membership campaign is now underway. Why should you be a member of the Historic Shepherdstown Commission and Museum? Because you care about this wonderful, historic, unique and sometimes quirky place … and you like the idea that ...
In America, the concept of freedom is sacrosanct. We wear it like a badge of honor, invoking it in defense of our choices, our beliefs and our very way of life. Yet, too often, our conversations about freedom focus only on what we are free to do, ignoring an equally critical dimension: what we ...
I do not often attend the Shepherdstown Town Council meetings, because I can’t take the excitement – and that is not snark. So much on the other side of silence, in George Eliot’s phrase, comes up, that I might go deaf. Take the latest, reported on in The Shepherdstown Chronicle and The ...
While recently reading an article in the Jan. 3 edition of The Shepherdstown Chronicle about the idea of building a West Virginia Almost Heaven Swing as some sort of tourist attraction in James Rumsey Monument and Park, I couldn’t help but wonder what ever happened to the idea of building a ...
There’s a volunteer opportunity for singles or couples, on Tuesday mornings in the Shepherdstown Public Library in the new year! The Social Seniors Leisure Lounge meets from 9 a.m. to noon in the big room at the library. This is a Shepherdstown Shares project that began last June, and has ...
The proposed Middleway bottling facility raises significant questions about the future of Jefferson County’s natural resources, public health and long-term economic development. This project proposal represents a critical point for our rapidly growing community, highlighting the importance of ...
Farm Rescue is a nonprofit organization, based in the Midwest, aiding family farms and ranches during a crisis. I learned about it from a friend, and immediately became interested in helping with it. I am passionate about supporting the agricultural community. In Washington County, Maryland and ...