Shepherdstown News

It's not too often that a group of runners meets at a pub to start the day's run.

Having worked hard to improve the quality and growth of students and faculty at Shepherd University, President Suzanne Shipley is excited about the next phase of expanding the university's services and programs.

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On any other day, one would find the back alleys of Shepherdstown to be relatively quiet and void of activity.

Three Jefferson County firefighters from Shepherdstown and Citizen fire companies suffered non life-threatening injuries when multiple units responded to a structure fire Wednesday morning, according to fire officers at the scene.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. -- A special kind of outdoor classroom opening soon in West Virginia is intended to be a national model for nature-based learning.

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When traveling to West Virginia, you have a whole list of different options for staying overnight.

Fancy Pants Theater will present the first ever community theater production of "The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show" on June 1-9 at Studio 246.

The Jefferson County Planning Commission will consider edits that have been made to the U.S. 340 East Gateway Plan during its meeting Tuesday, according to the commission's agenda.

Feeding students: The Caring Cupboard, begun in August to provide needy Jefferson County schoolchildren with shelf-stable foods on weekends, operates from the back entryway of Shepherdstown Lutheran Church's parish house.

Artists' Cooperative moves to visitors center: The Washington Street Artists' Cooperative has announced that the gallery has moved to the Charles Town Visitors Center, 108 N. George Street.

Jim Lehrer in Shepherdstown: Newsman-author Jim Lehrer joins the Shepherdstown 250 Celebration May 22, taking part in a reception and lecture on the Shepherd University campus.

An international expert on mine safety will retire from his current post as a vice president of Wheeling Jesuit University amid an investigation into how he and the school handled federal dollars.

Martinsburg's Historic Preservation Review Commission has a full agenda for its regulary scheduled monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday.

Shepherd University President Suzanne Shipley is in the investigatory stages of opening a satellite location in Martinsburg by the summer of 2013.

RANSON Officers from several law enforcement agencies in Jefferson County executed multiple search warrants at the Apple Tree Gardens apartment complex Thursday morning, according to Ranson Police Chief William Roper.

Feeding students: The Caring Cupboard, begun in August to provide needy Jefferson County schoolchildren with shelf-stable foods on weekends, operates from the back entryway of Shepherdstown Lutheran Church's parish house.

Recent warm temperatures had the redbud and ornamental cherry trees in full bloom in front of St.

As songs like Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" echoed through loudspeakers and sunlight glistened off of polished chrome and steel, hundreds of classic car fans flocked to the Kmart in Martinsburg Sunday for The Journal's Newspapers In Education Cruise-In. Held three times a year, proceeds from the NIE Cruise-In support ... (more)