GREEN SPRING — One of Hampshire County’s earliest settlers — and heroes — will be remembered at a cemetery ceremony Sunday afternoon.
CAPON BRIDGE — Music and messages “to bring the churches and the community together” will fill the Capon Bridge fire hall grounds Saturday afternoon.
Last weekend was a bustling one in Capon Bridge, sure, but Rada was rockin’ too with the 8th annual Kindred Spirits Festival at the Flying Squirrel Distillery. The barn saw big sounds as artists and musical groups traveled to Purgitsville to perform, and onlookers danced and enjoyed the week…
MOOREFIELD — The Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Foundation has received a $20,000 grant award from the Clearway Community Benefit Fund to establish a scholarship fund to support students enrolled in Eastern’s wind energy technology program.
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ROMNEY — America’s favorite seafood — shrimp — will be farmed in Capon Bridge if business plans presented at last Wednesday’s Hampshire County Development Authority meeting are implemented.
ROMNEY — It wasn’t quite landslide status, but 58.7% of Romney voters said last week that they support a $2.50 fee added to their town water-and-sewer bill to go for fire protection.
ROMNEY — Hampshire County has 314 more homes now with access to county broadband and 2,111 residents have been vaccinated against Covid by the county Health Department, the Hampshire County Development Authority Executive Board learned at its meeting last Wednesday.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Pro-tection’s (WVDEP) Youth Environmental Program (YEP) presented close to $15,000 in cash awards to groups from around the state for their efforts to better the environment in the Mountain State, with 4 of those groups calling Hamps…
KEYSER — A former Mineral County deputy has begun a 30-day home jail sentence for his role in West Virginia’s largest-ever poaching case.
ROMNEY — Young Austin Holmes-Evans will learn his sentence today for murdering his 14-year-old cousin Johnny Adams nearly 2 years ago.
PETERSBURG –State Fire Marshal’s investigators have arrested a Petersburg man, charging him with setting fire to a house on his property, a blaze that injured a firefighter.
CAPON BRIDGE — The Capon Bridge Town Council gave initial approval to new water and sewer ordinances at last week’s meeting, and discussed changing the timing of municipal elections to coincide with the national election schedule, combining town with state and national elections.
CHARLES TOWN — If Efram Torres hasn’t seen it all, he’s seen a lot of it.
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ROMNEY — The state barn on Depot Street may not make it through another winter.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia turned 159 years old on Monday and many citizens turned out at the state Capitol Complex to celebrate.
So much has happened over the past few months.
Well, we are all aware that gas prices are outrageous, still climbing and there appears to be no end in sight.
I keep a document near the top of the working folder on my desktop (how old school) that I fill with ideas for my “On the loose” column and the beginnings of columns that didn’t go anywhere.
Some time ago I posted a question on Facebook asking, “Who was the most famous Hampshire Countian?”
ROMNEY — Voters here said they would support a $2.50 service fee for fire protection to be added to their monthly water and sewer bills.
WASHINGTON — Suspicious communications in all its forms designed to either trick, surprise or scare someone into responding before thinking is No. 7 on the 2022 “Dirty Dozen” scams warning list, the Internal Revenue Service says.
Nurse named top employee
CAPON BRIDGE — The 1st festival dedicated to the Cacapon River launches its 2-day run Friday.
MOOREFIELD — The Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College Foundation has received a $20,000 grant award from the Clearway Community Benefit Fund to establish a scholarship fund to support students enrolled in Eastern’s wind energy technology program.
ALUM CREEK — Guided hikes, exhibits and interactive programming greeted guests during the grand opening of the Claudia L. Workman Wildlife Education Center.
ROMNEY — Age is just a number, baby.
Thrift donates over $82K back to community
Darren Thorne unseated 18-year Delegate Ruth Rowan in May’s Republican primary. Now can he beat her son-in-law in November?
Admin Building scheduled for July demolition
CAPON BRIDGE — Old ground and new can be uncovered Saturday at Fort Edwards’ annual Family Frontier Day.
CHARLESTON — Three statewide agencies are uniting to remind the public of potential hazards that can occur during the summer, as many West Virginians and tourists are more active outdoors.
ROMNEY — A new home for the county ambulance service is back to square one after the County Commission rejected both bids for a facility at its Tuesday morning meeting.
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ROMNEY — They came from all over to remember the past and reunite with each other.
ANNAPOLIS — The Chesapeake Bay watershed received an overall grade of C+ on its latest report card, released Monday by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
MARTINSBURG — The state’s misconduct case against Judge Carter Williams opened here Tuesday morning amid technological confusion.
Rob Wolford isn’t the only independent candidate mounting a bid for the general election here.
Gas prices set another new record in West Virginia this week, hitting $4.90 a gallon Sunday in gasbuddy.com’s daily survey of 1,154 stations across the state.
CHARLESTON — More than half a billion dollars in federal funding will be sent to 4 U.S. states to expand broadband access as part of a sweeping national effort to bring affordable service to rural and low-income Americans, the U.S. Treasury Department announced.
Thanks all around
Just around the corner from downtown Romney, up High Street, and onto Eagle Drive is where I hopped on board the Potomac Eagle train for the sunset Trough trip.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Is it OK for free-range chickens to not range freely?
At 65, Rosa, our neighbor across the field to the west, was imagining her relevance to be slipping away. That’s kind of early, but it does happen. I harbor hopes of being spared this experience as long as I can continue to entertain you, dear reader. However, I already have to keep a catalog…
The in-laws had retired to a posh, gated community in South Carolina; my father-in-law was very active in the Republican Party. One of the lakes formed when Duke Energy dammed a series of rivers made for the centerpiece of the community. A golf course, along with its attendant structures — c…
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A church congregation has the unique ability to bring together a group of people who all have a faith in common, but perhaps little else. A tractor repair customer we’ll call Clive invited my wife, Stephanie, and me to such a gathering and I’ve had strong reservations about mixing business a…
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CHARLESTON — The combined value of West Virginia’s poultry production and sales rose to $291.4 million in 2021, up 19% from a year earlier.
We’re back to working on the 1957 Farmall Cub described in the last installment of Far Muse. In case you missed it, I’m busily trying to turn out a Farmall Cub that is part of one of those “deals” that I generally try to avoid; fix up the Cub in exchange for another tractor, a 550 Oliver tha…
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“Do you think you’ll be able to make it out to the farm to look at the tractor?” the pleasant female voice asked. It had been a few weeks since her employer had called me. Due to the usual spring workload, truck troubles and so forth, I hadn’t yet been able to make an appearance.
HEDGESVILLE — As Berkeley County Schools CTE Director Ken Pack and Hedgesville High ag teacher Chris VanDyne looked out the window of the shop classroom the morning of April 14, 4 students were busy bees, finishing up tasks involved in everything from gardening to building a shed.
CHARLESTON — Eight West Virginia projects will share in $341,018.74 of federal funding under the U.S Department of Agriculture’s 2022
A week ago, I found myself a little short on material for this obscure little corner of West Virginia’s oldest newspaper.
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1. Every county has a U.S. Department of Agriculture Service Center that houses Farm Service Agency (FSA) and National Resource Conservation Services (NRCS). This is where farmers and landowners go to access their programs. As a renter you can still work with these agencies.
I don’t have a giant property, so I strategize to get the most use of the garden I have, and that includes planting vegetables and herbs in raised beds and containers.
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“And it’s just a box of rain, I don’t know who put it there.”
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I’m really referring to the apple bloom and the odd, wistful feeling the bloom leaves us when, after a bit of breezy, rainy weather it’s suddenly gone.
Pickings were indeed slim at the gun shop’s “bargain basement.” This isn’t a specific place in the shop — in fact, it tends to move about. These are the old, rusty and decrepit sporting arms that get swept along in the acquisition of the classic militaria that the shop actually deals in. I b…
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Farm Credit of the Virginias Knowledge Center is accepting applications for its 2022-2023 Ag Biz Planner course.
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CHARLESTON — Corn planting in West Virginia is expected to total 49,000 acres, down 4%, or 2,000 acres, from 2021 and 2020.
Editor’s note: This story, “Countdown to Apple Blossom,” originally appeared in Antique Power magazine in July 2009. I thought that since the publication of this paper falls on a date during the Apple Blossom Festival, (and because the people in the mail room at Antique Power tell me that th…
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It feels like such a long time since I “retired” from my tractor repair route, but I’ll always keep a hand in, I suppose. Anyway, it seems that I’ve been writing a lot lately.
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CHARLESTON — Bees produced less honey in West Virginia last year, but honey stocks on hand Dec. 15 were more than double from 2020.
Now that the nasty little bit of business regarding West Virginia Public Broadcasting is done, it’s time to move on to some more fun stuff. This is a special time for me and the 300-acre private 1950s farm museum in Loudoun County, Va.
CHARLESTON — Applications for next year’s Veterans and Heroes to Agriculture Grant Program are now open.
DES MOINES, Iowa — For years Americans have been told autonomous technology was improving and that driverless vehicles were just around the corner.
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CHARLESTON — Hens in West Virginia laid an average of 234 eggs in 2021, 4 better than the year before.
The fencerow to the east is yellow again. Yes, the forsythia is in bloom. I know — I’ve already gone on at some length about how this hearty, fast-growing bush takes over the yard, chases the cats and steals hubcaps. But really, I can’t get over how this flower announces that there is hope f…
If you head up Brooks Mountain on a sharp, windy road just outside of Hinton, you’ll find Mike and Alisha Segars. They live on the family-run farm, Moonstruck Maple, that boasts a sweet treat well worth the trek.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture has reopened applications for the 2021 West Virginia Farmers and Ranchers Stress Assistance Network grant. The purpose of the program is to establish a network that connects individuals who are engaged in farming, ranching and other ag…
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s production of grain crops was a mixed bag in 2021.
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Tuesday, the 11th, was a welcome break from the cold we had been experiencing. This little respite encouraged me to head to the private 1950s farm museum near Middleburg, Va., and get things rolling there (and resume my regular visits that had taken a 2-month hiatus.) This first involved a …
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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture has reopened applications for this year’s U.S. Department of Agriculture Specialty Crop Block Grants.
Remember Jimmy Hatlo? He was the creator of a single-panel newspaper comic titled “They’ll Do It Every Time.”
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s production of grain crops was a mixed bag in 2021.
CHARLESTON — The total value of fish sold commercially in West Virginia during 2021 was $895,000, an increase of 7% from 2020’s $840,000.
“Why do we do this to ourselves — it’s really 6, and we’re already out here.” This question was put forth by Whitham orchard 2nd in command John R. “Bob” Whitacre. We were walking between 2 rows of large old Stayman Winesap apple trees in an orchard known as the Church Block. This orchard wa…
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