Shepherdstown News

July 4th might be just around the corner, but Saturday, Millie McDonough was concentrating on another holiday.

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Members of the horse racing industry from around the country plan to meet this week in Shepherdstown to discuss legal issues at tracks, growth in slots and other matters.

Horsemen from across the country are expected to converge in Shepherdstown this week.

Rick Thompson, speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates, said Friday that his future political goals could include a run for governor in 2012.

A hearing on the suspension of seven jockeys from Charles Town Races & Slots has been rescheduled for August.

The Harpers Ferry Job Corps Center held its graduation Friday at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown.

A Shepherdstown, W.Va., man who spent the last year-and-a-half in jail, including some of that time because he chose to stay in, was released on a personal recognizance bond Monday one day before his scheduled trial on a charge of stealing an elderly woman's money.

The Tamarack Foundation's Artisan Resource Center was presented the 2009 Home-Based Business Champion Award Wednesday at the 2009 Small Business Awards Celebration at the Tamarack Conference Center.

AUGUSTA At just 20-years-old, Tory Gallery had big plans. She wanted to finish college, become a graphic designer and start her own business at least, some kind of business.

A local attorney has been named to the state's 15-member Commission on the Arts.

TICKETS: Adults $16, children under 18 $10. INFO: Call 304-343-7529 or visit www.kanawhaplayers.org . CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Playwright Lee Blessing's "A Body of Water" is poetry on stage, according to Kanawha Players' director Debbie Rainey-Haught. "A Body of Water" Presented by Kanawha Players WHEN: 8 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday ...

Backstretch programs, racetrack gaming, and exclusionary practices are the primary topics for forums scheduled for the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association summer convention June 30-July 3 in Shepherdstown, W.V. On July 3, after a full meeting of the board of directors, elections will be held for National HBPA president and ...

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va.- Chlorine gas began leaking from a cylinder at the Shepherdstown sewer plant Monday afternoon, forcing officials to evacuate about eight homes near the plant at 409 E. High St., officials said.

Monday evening, members of a local youth group came together with friends and family to celebrate their recent success.

Organizers of a rally against a proposed electric power line Sunday afternoon predicted that more than 100 activists would turn out on busy U.S. 340 in Harpers Ferry to join the protest.

The Rev. Fred A. Soltow Jr. , the Rev. Ron Schlak and the Rev. David A. Twedt, all of West Virginia, pedal across Veirs Mill Road en route to Crusader Lutheran Church in Rockville to meet the congregation Saturday evening.

Melanie Thacker, 11, a sixth-grader in Shepherdstown Middle School, will attend the Junior National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C., from June 20 to 25.

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It's a great public relations gimmick: three Lutheran pastors from West Virginia riding around the nation for the next 10 weeks on a "bicycle built for three" They're doing it to try to raise $5 million for relief of world hunger which the national level of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America promised to do 10 years ago.