After 20 years in the same location, the Division of Motor Vehicles office in Romney is apparently closing today.
Texas’s agony has turned to Hampshire’s pain at the gas pump.
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CAPON BRIDGE — “We feel lucky that the Cacapon River is one of the cleanest in West Virginia,” the Friends of the Cacapon River states on its web page — and the group plans to keep it that way.
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Attorney General Morrisey Reaches $320K Medicaid Fraud Settlement with In-State Hospital
The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind will hold a virtual public hearing next Wednesday, March 3, on its 10-year Comprehensive Educational Facility Plan.
The Hampshire County Community Foundation is now accepting funding and scholarship applications for spring 2021.
Feb. 15: Amy Leann Bowman, 44, of Augusta was arrested for Possession w/intent to Deliver (Fentynal/Heroin).
The message on the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Facebook page Thursday evening was deadly serious, but couldn’t help but make readers smile.
SUNRISE SUMMIT — The former Weimer Chevrolet building is under contract just 7 weeks after it was put up for sale.
ROMNEY — The Hampshire County Development Authority awarded the contract for asbestos abatement in the old Hampshire Memorial Hospital building to Morgantown-based Anderson Excavating at last Wednesday’s board meeting.
CHARLESOTN — AARP West Virginia state leaders have set an ambitious legislative agenda for the organization this year.
ROMNEY — The Hampshire County Development Authority’s board was updated last Wednesday on projects at the county’s 2 business parks.
ROMNEY — Starting in April, Valley Health will be offering their Diabetes Management and Prevention program virtually for folks interested in making healthy lifestyle changes.
Amid the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic this winter, Warm the Children did what it always does: clothe needy kids.
CUMBERLAND — A play that was limited to 1 virtual performance last November is planning a 5-performance run in March.
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ROMNEY — The Depot in Romney is filled to the brim with memories.
CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has ordered the loosening of pandemic restrictions on businesses after a decline in coronavirus deaths and cases, and he sought the return of all elementary and middle school students to in-person learning.
MOOREFIELD — For the 2nd time in a year, Eastern has lined up 3 finalists to be its next president.
MOOREFIELD — A Zoon session to help nonprofits with fundraising will be hosted March 11 by Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College.
ROMNEY — Logan Mantz, with the Capon Bridge Revitalization Group, presented updates on the Capon School Street project to the school board at their meeting Monday.
This particular act was broken down into 6 separate sections, with the 1st section describing potential federal laws or acts that this act would nullify in any said efforts to have them enforced within Newton County.
The 2021 Session of the 85th Legislature has been like no other that I have ever experienced here in Charleston.
The members of the Hampshire County Board of Education want to thank all who have contacted us, whether by email, phone or in person, over the last few weeks expressing your concerns.
Hampshire students will be in school 4 days a week
More than 15 percent of Hampshire County’s estimated 23,175 residents have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Two days after the Hampshire school board voted to return to in-person learning 4 days a week, the state board passed a motion Tuesday afternoon requiring pre-K through 8th grade students to return to 5-day in-person instruction.
Hampshire County Schools will see a return to in-person learning 4 days a week, effective Wednesday, the board decided at their meeting tonight.
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CHARLESTON – Three cases of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, or more commonly referred to as the UK Variant, have been detected in West Virginia. Nationwide 1,523 cases have been reported including all the bordering states to West Virginia. This variant was first reported in the US at the end o…
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After several inches of snow and freezing rain pummeled Hampshire County on Thursday Feb. 18, several accidents have been reported this evening.
Authorities update case with juvenile suspect
Fentanyl played a part in 9 of 11 overdose deaths in Hampshire County last year.
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Hampshire High School students returned to class Tuesday — 13 weeks to the day after they last entered the halls of HHS.
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CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice called for cutting West Virginia’s personal income tax in his State of the State address as he proposed tax increases on the wealthy and on the sale of soda and tobacco.
The improving conditions that sent Hampshire High School back to class Tuesday for the 1st time in 3 months are breathing relief into a healthcare system strained for 11 months by Covid-19.
The winter weather might be making you look wistfully to warmer days, but you’re not the only one waiting for Spring 2021.
The Capon Bridge Revitalization Group’s Project Coordinator Mary Billings presented updated plans for Capon School Street at last week’s Capon Bridge Town Council meeting, securing the council’s support for a new grant application.
With up to 300,000 people falling sick every day and up to 5,000 people dying daily from Covid-19, the U.S. is at war with the virus. Some 115,000 West Virginians have already gotten Covid-19 and almost 2,000 have died.
The, uhm, unknowingness that keeps cropping up on Facebook is grating at yours truly.
Have you ever seen a brick wall, leaned forward, put your head down, and run hard straight in to it? I haven’t either.
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Housed many, many feet above the ground, close to the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, lives a pair of eagles — Smitty and Bella.
MOOREFIELD — Would-be teachers in the Potomac Highlands will be able to complete a 4-year degree in elementary education through a new alliance between Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College and West Virginia University-Parkersburg.
Authorities are searching for 2 parolees wanted by the Moorefield Parole Office.
Four miles of U.S. 220 will be paved this summer, 1 of 17 projects the Division of Highways announced last week.
CHARLESTON (AP) — A West Virginia lawmaker has renewed an attempt to punish teachers for striking in a state where work stoppages have occurred in two of the past three years.
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A Hampshire native has become the 2nd correctional officer in West Virginia to die of Covid-19.
Four months after she was last seen, Kristie Marie Plumley has authorities again asking for the public’s help in locating her.
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s inventory of sheep and lambs fell by 9 percent in 2020 while the number of goats grew by 6 percent.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the final rule for its Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, which enables agricultural producers and private landowners to protect farmlands, grasslands and wetlands with conservation easements.
During the colder months, our thoughts are often with the plight of the homeless. But is their situation always a ‘’plight?” In some instances, homelessness can be an adventure. Let me relate what brought this all to mind.
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I’ve gotten myself into what the movie Brits might call a bit of a pickle or even a sticky wicket. I’m in need of flatheads, more specifically, inline flatheads. Before you imagine a marching column of catfish, let me explain what a flathead is.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s cattle population dropped by 5 percent in 2020.
Brooke Glover, co-founder of Swilled Dog Hard Cider, didn’t set out to create a new business venture when she and her husband started making cider at home for family and friends.
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If you attended Loudoun County, Va., public schools in the ’50s through the ’70s, chances are that you had the privilege of meeting teacher Anna Beavers.
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Recently Jim selected an archived installment of Far Muse which pertained to the flood of 1996. Coincidently, I have a deadline coming up for an end-page story for the May/June issue of Vintage Truck Magazine to which the following is destined in a shortened version.
I spun the globe until the British Isles came into view.
ROCHESTER, Pa. — Ten years of planning, 10 years of want ads and hope and worry ended one day in October when Don Kretschmann realized it wasn’t going to work; no one was going to step in.
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Patricia Rodgers of Baker has won a John Deere XUV 590E Gator through a surprise giveaway organized by Farm Credit of the Virginias.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia produced more hay in 2020 than a year earlier, with both the acreage and the yield per acre increasing.
I’ve never used material from this column as an “encore presentation” before. Actually, I should have saved the story, “There’s Nothing Funny About a Flood” for this issue instead of running it on Jan. 15, 2014. My bad.
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CHARLESTON — The number of pigs in West Virginia on Dec. 1 was unchanged from a year earlier.
MOOREFIELD - Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College completed a virtual National Biochar Week before Christmas.
It seems that when it comes to the art of writing, I now only have time for works that pay especially well. These usually first appear in this column in their full length of about 1,400 words.
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This story begins very close to where the very first “Far Muse” story started, near the intersection of Old Chapel and Bishop Meade roads at Millwood, Va. Unlike that story, I’m not trying to locate the source of a mysterious barbecue fragrance. In fact, if there is any fragrance involved, i…
A 6-week virtual program for youths interested in livestock or horticulture starts next week.
This will be the last installment of this column in 2017. The next will be on Jan. 3, 2018. Such an occasion is commonly thought to be a time of reflection — another year gone by (sigh).
ROMNEY — Brandon Walsh has been named direct support professional of the year for Potomac Center.
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Consumers and retailers alike are demanding accountability when it comes to producing, buying and selling fresh produce.
I guess I've gotten into the habit of borrowing titles lately.
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The 4th annual Student Ag Innovation Challenge will encourage problem solving and innovation among West Virginia students interested in agriculture.
Every square inch of ground anywhere holds a story. As children in the then vast New Jersey farm country, we would find lost objects in the fields by throwing our pocket knives then looking at the place where they landed. I admit that this method wasn’t very scientific, but it did sometimes …
CHARLESTON, — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for U.S. Department of Agriculture specialty crop block grants.
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POINT PLEASANT — The West Virginia State Farm Museum Christmas Light Show that came to life last Friday is running every night from 6-9 p.m. through Dec. 13.
The Hampshire County Farm Bureau was unable to hold its 2020 annual meeting and awards banquet due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Some of us can remember when disappointment with an American product or our government could be embodied in a single phrase; “Give it back to the Indians.”
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CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s organic farming is slowly growing.
CHARLESTON — The 2020 West Virginia Grown Member Directory is now available.
CHARLESTON — Six West Virginia projects will share in $248,433.07 of federal funding under the United States Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program this fall.
The North River Mills shop has virtually no heat and plenty of ventilation. Years ago, someone must have found themselves in a situation similar to mine as there is evidence of newspapers having been put up on the west wall to block the wind. An open lean-to protects this wall from rain and …
CHARLESTON — West Virginia will continue to operate under the 2014 Farm Bill for the 2021 hemp growing season.
Our managing editor at Vintage Truck magazine is recovering from surgery. Having just gotten back in the game after about a month’s leave, we’re all working together to try to compress time and get a couple of issues out in a timely manner.
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Eli and Misty Cook’s Spring Valley Farm was featured in the October issue of the WVDA’s October Market Bulletin . Here’s their story.
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