CAPON BRIDGE — A July 13 ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new mural on the wall of the Capon Bridge Rescue Squad building drew a crowd to celebrate both the mural itself and the volunteers and sponsors who made the project possible.
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AUGUSTA — The cattle are coming — and so are the hogs, goats, sheep, rabbits, pickles, peaches, corn, photos and about every kind of entry you can think of.
MARTINSBURG — One of the 1st stops for the new Miss West Virginia will be Monday night’s Hampshire County Fair pageant.
Adam Feazell, who has been the assistant principal at Hampshire High School for the past 2 years, will be the school’s new man in charge.
From roots to canopy, trees are real warriors for clean water and yet...in our most recent Potomac River report card, streamside forests received the worst grade: an F.
On a recent trip to Spring Gap Mountain, in the heart of Hampshire County, traveling with my daughter and my sister, I took the opportunity to visit one of my favorite childhood spots, the spring on top of Spring Gap Mountain.
The kindness of strangers
Ann Ali, communications director for the West Virginia Senate, shared this information. I’ll pass it along to you.
July 12: Mark Wayne Robinette, 38, of Ridgeley was arrested on a fugitive from justice warrant out of Allegany County, Md., for shoplifting.
Just about a month ago Singer Jane Marczewski performed on the TV show “America’s Got Talent.” Her message has taken the Internet by storm.
ROMNEY — An ordinance imposing a $2.50 monthly user fee to support the Romney Volunteer Fire Company was rejected by the Romney Town Council at its meeting Monday night.
How long has it been since we saw this?
CHARLESTON — State School Superintendent Clayton Burch told the State Board of Education last Wednesday that he plans to spend plenty of time at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind.
CAPON BRIDGE — The Capon Bridge Town Council received a final breakdown of costs for the town sewer project at their July 13 meeting, and considered requests from several town subdivisions.
INDIANA, Pa. — He was an incorrigible cur.
SPRING MILLS — The final group of kids shuffled into the cafeteria at Potomack Intermediate on Tuesday afternoon, a buzz coming from the Berkeley County Schools summer program students as they eyed the colorful vegetables and fruits perched on the tables in front of them.
CHARLESTON —The West Virginia Department of Education’s Office of Adult Education is kicking off a “Never Too Late to Graduate” campaign featuring West Virginia native and “America’s Got Talent” winner Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.
Pendleton adds auto finance division
Troopers and paramedics restart a heart
School board orders inspection of facilities
WINCHESTER — Valley Health told its employees and affiliated physicians Monday that the Covid-19 vaccine is now required. The order takes effect immediately and requires staff to be fully vaccinated by Nov. 1. More than 2,100 employees of the 6-hospital system remain unvaccinated.
AUGUSTA — There will be a new private school option for Hampshire families this fall: Victory Christian Academy is opening its doors at its Augusta site come Sept. 1.
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PAW PAW — A Paw Paw farm is making room for ‘shrooms, seeking help from mushroom hunters everywhere to help with their research.
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SPRINGFIELD - The old John Blue Bridge put up a fight as hydraulic hammers chipped away at it's concrete piles before finally succumbing and splashing into the South Branch at 10:55 a.m.
A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for Hampshire County until 11 p.m. this evening. The National Weather Service anticipates the strongest portions of the storm will hit Hampshire around 5 p.m. with showers tapering off by midnight.
4th in a 6-part series appearing every 2 months about the Lost/Cacapon River, by 6 authors who love it.
ROMNEY — God is in the details when it comes to designing the 3 new elementary schools here, and the devil is in the decisions:
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CUMBERLAND — One of the Love Shack dogs has found his forever home, in a turn of events that his new family called “fate.” Max was one of the over 100 dogs seized from the Cabin Road property on April 5.
County schools aim for a return to in-person learning
SHANKS — So long, Hampshire Meats. Hello, Wayne’s.
Adam Feazell, who has been the assistant principal at Hampshire High School for the past 2 years, will be the school's new man in charge.
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BURLINGTON — One of these days soon, a Mineral County farm family will finally receive use of a new John Deere tractor as West Virginia’s conservation farm of 2 years ago.
CHARLESTON — A Hampshire County man has been named to the reconstituted Natural Resources Commission.
Springfield will be ground zero for corn and firefighter battles this weekend.
Ambulance operations director resigns
CHARLESTON — Public hearings have been set on West Virginia’s redistricting process.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice called on Saturday for the resignation of a state lawmaker who posted a sexually explicit TikTok video to his public account.
WILLIAMSPORT, Md. – Potomac Edison is using a helicopter equipped with an aerial saw to trim trees and maintain electrical clearances along 6 difficult-to-access transmission line corridors in West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia this year.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The health of the Chesapeake Bay improved to a grade of C in 2020 — up from a C-minus in 2019, according to an annual report card by scientists released Tuesday.
A dear friend stopped by the Review unexpectedly one day a few weeks ago to give me a piece of her exceedingly sharp mind about grocery stores.
Romney resident Dan Oates’ career-long involvement with NASA is joining the new private space race.
MOOREFIELD — Students at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College now have a seamless pathway to a bachelor’s or master’s degree from one of the nation’s largest accredited online schools.
The 4th of July has just passed and is surprising how many don’t truly understand what it stands for. But I think what grieves me the most is the lack of respect for our flag.
MARTINSBURG — a 38-year-old woman from Augusta pled guilty to her part in drug dealing that ran for 10 months here last year.
Jam the cow has decided she feels like getting milked. A handsome Jersey, a breed prized for its high-quality milk, easy calving and all-around smarts, she strolls into a spotless room, about 10 feet by 15 feet.
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“At Indian Lake you’ll be able to make the way the Indians do.”
On a country lane, just down the road from Bruceton Mills in Preston County, you’ll find Mason Run Farm and its owner Greg Gibson.
I’ve kept a daily journal since sometime in 1994. These volumes conclude around 2012 when I started publishing enough to realize that the flow had reversed direction. The idea was to use these journals — someday — as story material for columns like this one. So — what am I still saving them…
MOOREFIELD — The Potomac Valley Conservation District is preparing to hold a local work group meeting to discuss conservation programs for 2021- 2022 later this month.
CHARLESTON — Corn planted in West Virginia this year is estimated at 51,000 acres, unchanged from 2020.
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CHARLESTON — For the 2021 season, West Virginia produced a totaled 13,000 gallons of maple syrup, down 3,000 gallons from the previous year.
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CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture is urging landowners to sign up for the 2022 Cooperative State-County-Landowner Gypsy Moth Suppression program.
JACKSON’S MILL — The West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame will honor 2 years’ worth of inductees with a banquet on July 24 at Jackson’s Mill.
“Please don’t dominate the rap, Jack if you got nothin’ new to say …”
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They’ve munched their way through millions of acres of West Virginia hardwood. The gypsy moth is an invasive pest that’s been doing damage to West Virginia’s forests since it entered the state in the early ’70s.
“I simply need a time frame,” said the text message. “Simply” and “time frame” immediately struck me as a contradiction in terms. Let me assure the reader that, in my tractor repair business, any “time frame” or estimate that I have ever given has been wrong.
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As the national food system came to a screeching halt in the early days of the pandemic, the demand for food increased, providing a unique opportunity for local agriculture.
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BUFFALO — Private landowners in the Kanawha Valley had a hands-on opportunity to learn how to create a pollinator habitat on their property through a recent workshop hosted by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources and Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia.
A friend called and asked the Old Hippie if we would lend him a shovel.
POINT PLEASANT — The West Virginia State Farm Museum will host an Antique Gas Engine Show at 5 p.m. July 3.
YAKIMA, Wash. — Seven apple varieties previously believed to be lost or extinct have been found in eastern Washington state.
The old barn find is finally running and sounds just like an old tractor — a 2-cylinder John Deere. But it’s not a 2-cylinder John Deere. One or more cylinders aren’t firing. Let’s leave it running, though, as we chase down the culprit. If, as is often the case, the ignition wire connectors …
LORETTO, Ky. — On a Central Kentucky hillside, over a thousand American white oak stand in neat rows, just barely towering over nearby blades of grass.
Do you remember Reverend Deadly? In the July 24, 2013, issue of this paper, I told the story of this minister's reputation for marksmanship. He's known for dispatching a squirrel in his church (they could have used him in Pascagoula) and largely ridding a farm of burrowing animals. He's marr…
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CHARLESTON — Even as more hay has been used over the last 5 months, hay stocks have risen on West Virginia farms.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture will be hosting a virtual Acidified Only Better Process Control School June 15-16.
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CHARLESTON — Plummeting sales of broilers drove overall poultry sales in West Virginia down 5% in 2020,
Rather than the billionaire real estate mogul, to me, “The Donald” will always be the Disney character; a cartoon duck with a bare butt in a sailor suit. Lately, even more so.
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CHARLESTON — Plummeting sales of broilers drove overall poultry sales in West Virginia down 5% in 2020,
CHARLESTON — Even as more hay has been used over the last 5 months, hay stocks have risen on West Virginia farms.
The week leading up to the 21st annual North River Mills/Ice Mountain Festival saw rain daily. There was no reason to expect the festival date to be any different. I had an unusual request from an old customer-not for tractor repair but for mowing.
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MECOSTA, Mich. — For generations, Brian Sackett’s family has farmed potatoes that are made into chips found on grocery shelves in much of the eastern U.S.
My radio mentor, writer Jean Shepherd, wrote a manifesto for high school mediocrity, a guide on how to be invisible in the classroom. This work was entitled “Lost at C,” so I can’t claim the title. However, my version addresses a very different subject.
As a pre-teen, I was discovering the rock music of the era just prior to the British Invasion; Little Eva, the Coasters, Elvis (of course) Barry and the Tamerlanes and even the more folksy Peter Paul and Mary and Rooftop Singers.
Heading into the 2021 Legislative Session, we were unsure how much time would available for policy making here in West Virginia.
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Fourth-graders from Slanesville Elementary School swept the top 3 places in the 2021 Hampshire County “Agriculture in West Virginia” poster contest, sponsored by the Farm Bureau.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia produced 56% more red meat in 2020 than in 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports.
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(The quarter-mile soap opera)
Farm Credit of the Virginias will return $40 million to its customers this month through the annual patronage program.
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WASHINGTON — Half of a $1 million grant to train the agricultural workforce in West Virginia is headed to a program in Moorefield.
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