Bolivar News

A Jefferson County school bus driver was one of two people arrested on drug charges Wednesday afternoon after a traffic stop led to the seizure of marijuana.

A recent grant award could help the newest members of the Bolivar Town Council make good on one of their campaign promises.

Members of the community are remembering John Kusner as a man of intelligence, conviction and passion.

John Brown may have died at the gallows, but his legacy lives on, scholars said Friday.

Martinsburg, Ranson and Bolivar have been awarded grants totaling $989,000 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that will go toward transportation enhancement projects, Gov.

Local citizens are preparing to perform a two-act dramatization of the trial of abolitionist John Brown.

One person was flown to Winchester Medical Center after a three-vehicle accident involving a tanker-trailer carrying thousands of gallons of fuel this morning in Jefferson County.

John Brown's Fort has been around. From Harpers Ferry to the 1891 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, to the Murphy Farm outside Harpers Ferry in 1895, to the campus of Storer College in Bolivar in 1909, to its current location in the historic downtown of Harpers Ferry where it has sat since 1968, the former fire engine house has been around.

The observance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War officially began in Harpers Ferry and Bolivar Thursday with a joint meeting of the West Virginia and Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War commissions.

Citizens of Ranson and Bolivar went to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in each community's 2009 local elections.

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A new program is in the works to help senior citizens who live on the Blue Ridge Mountain.

A Mechanicsburg, Pa., firm has been selected by the Region 9 Planning and Development Council to perform several projects for the Region 9 PLC and counties and municipalities in the three-county region.

The leadership of Rock Spring Church near Kearneysville is seeking to gauge public interest in the idea of opening a new private Christian school in Jefferson County in light of the closure of Bolivar Christian Academy earlier this year.

Citizens in Charles Town, Ranson, Harpers Ferry and Bolivar will head to the polls this month and next in four separate municipal elections in Jefferson County.

Two men who allegedly tied up and robbed a 71-year-old Bolivar woman at knifepoint during a home invasion burglary earlier this year have been indicted on kidnapping charges by a Jefferson County grand jury.