The Hampshire County Health Department has confirmed 1 employee of Tavern 29 Bar and Grill, Augusta W.Va., testing positive for COVID-19.
The stormwater management team for the city of Martinsburg, with help from the West Virginia Rivers Coalition, has developed a digital tool for connecting Eastern Panhandle residents with opportunities to protect their local watersheds.
In a time of pandemic, in the midst of the digital age, a campaign to write letters grows
A Three Churches couple got a holiday surprise Thanksgiving morning — a baby delivered in the parking lot of the county’s 911 center on Jersey Mountain Road.
Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College is joining in a statewide effort to expand cultivation of specialty crops for the craft beverage market, connect growers to bottlers that need specialty crops and promote the use of locally grown fruits, vegetables, berries and herbs to p…
MOOREFIELD — With the increasing number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the region, Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College’s campus is closed to the public.
ROMNEY — In Hampshire County, there are many families where the grandparents raise their grandchildren, and a program presented to the school board Monday night offers a chance for grandparents to get the support they need from the state.
MOOREFIELD — Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College welcomed Virgin Hyperloop for a campus visit on Nov. 19.
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Three residents and an employee at Hampshire Memorial Hospital’s long-term care unit have tested positive for COVID-19, the Hampshire County Health Department reported this morning (Wednesday, Dec. 2).
Open enrollment for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act is underway until Dec. 15.
Sand Hill Road just east of Romney will be repaved starting today, the Division of Highways says.
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ROMNEY — The temporary fix is almost in place for the historic barn Romney has acquired from the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.
ROMNEY — An ordinance aimed at cutting down the number of vacant buildings in town has a mixed early result.
ROMNEY — In a unanimous decision Monday night, the school board voted to continue with virtual Fridays for the remainder of the 2020-21 school year in Hampshire County.
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ROMNEY — Now that Thanksgiving is over, Hampshire County is looking toward the fast-approaching Christmas holiday, and this year’s Winterfest project is currently underway.
With all due respect, Michael Hasty and company got it wrong back in the early years of this century.
As my mind is wondering and searching sadly for the better to come, I find myself turning more and more to other writers for consolation and inspiration.
As the days get colder and shorter, many Americans will experience what we call “seasonal depression.” Lack of vitamin C, personal interactions and social events are the root for many that experience this illness.
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Buck season might — just might — be off to a good start.
Many fundraising avenues have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and although The Bank of Romney employees contribute to Warm the Children through Casual Friday donations, they felt the need to do more.
Hampshire County recorded its 2nd death attributed to the COVID-19 virus this week as the pandemic spread across the county faster than ever.
A 56-year-old Paw Paw hunter died in the field Monday afternoon on the 1st day of buck season.
They may look a little different this year, but Light Up a Life ceremonies, Hospice of the Panhandle’s longstanding holiday remembrance and honor events, will take place in 2020 despite the pandemic.
ROMNEY — The Hampshire County Development Authority discussed progress on several projects at last week’s board meeting, including the exchange of the old hospital site for school properties owned by the Board of Education, as well as the industrial access road being constructed in the Capon…
KEYSER — Due to the increased number of COVID-19 cases within the state and on West Virginia University’s campuses, including Morgantown, Keyser and Beckley, all undergraduate instruction moved online this week.
The apparent boyfriend of a missing woman has been located “and is fully cooperating with the investigation,” the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Office said this week.
Dec. 12 will bring a scaled-down Christmas in Romney celebration — a product of the COVID-19 pandemic that has the region in its grips.
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ROMNEY — Final preparations are in high gear to feed 500 people Thanksgiving dinner for free Thursday.
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Taylor Richman wasn’t going to let her nerves get the better of her Monday morning when she was hunting in the woods with her mom, and her cool head led to her bagging a 10-point buck.
Local stores gear up for Small Business Saturday
Dec. 5 is the deadline to sign up for the annual “God’s Gifts of Love” for needy families.
Toys for Tots collection boxes are popping up all over the county, placed in local businesses by Hampshire County’s 3 Toys for Tots programs, sponsored by Romney’s American Legion Post 91 and the Capon Bridge and Capon Valley Ruritan clubs.
A Hampshire graduate won 1st prize in the Great Composers Competition of 2020, a series of international music competition for young performers conducted online.
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Hampshire Memorial Hospital’s president says his facility is prepared for the rising number of COVID-19 cases here after the facility lost its 1st victim to the virus last week.
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Hampshire County has recorded its 2nd death from COVID-19.
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.
Buck season starts Monday in West Virginia and 2020 promises to be bigger and better than 2019.
CAPON BRIDGE — Water and sewer issues took up much of the Capon Bridge Town Council’s Nov. 10 meeting.
ROMNEY — The Hampshire County Commission dealt with impacts of COVID-19, including equipment needs of first responders, at their only scheduled November meeting Tuesday.
YELLOW SPRING — A head-on collision on Route 259 Saturday morning killed the passenger in one of the vehicles.
Confirmed COVID-19 cases here topped 200 this week.
HUNTINGTON (AP) — Marshall University commemorated the 50th anniversary of the worst sports disaster in U.S. history Saturday, a plane crash that killed most of the entire football team.
With the county barreling toward Thanksgiving, the Christmas season will be here in no time, and the eastern side of the county’s “Holly Jolly Hampshire Christmas” is shaping up to help Hampshire celebrate safely and in style.
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We’re smack in the middle of deer-and-car-collision season in West Virginia — and the latest numbers say it’s worse than ever.
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.
“You don’t wanna mess with West Virginia — it’s all rocks,” advised our Iowa landlord, Dr. Dave North.
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“You can tell me that your dog ran away, then tell me that it took 3 days.’’ That’s part of the theme song to the Canadian situation comedy “Corner Gas.”
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Imagine going for a checkup and receiving some not-so-great news — but instead of your physician adding another pill to add to your morning routine, she hands you a slip of paper that reads:
CHARLESTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has awarded the West Virginia Department of Agriculture a laboratory flexible-funding model grant totaling $1.04 million.
Ted wrote this on the eve of the 2016 election, with it appearing in print the day after Donald Trump won the presidency. He thought it would be a fitting reminder 4 years later.
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Lonely Lights is a previously published title, but I can use it here because I own it. “Lonely Lights” was a poem that I wrote while listening to a radio broadcast of Miles Davis — it may have been “Sketches of Spain.”
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Richard Dykstra of Readstown, Wis., writes to ask how much work is involved in replacing the engine in a gasoline powered Massey Ferguson 150 with a Perkins Diesel unit.
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When we left off last week we had established that the Baldwin apple, another of the old-time varieties grown at Joy Orchard in Woodstock, Conn., where I picked in the 1970s, dates back at least to the Civil War. Well, I’ve since learned that we might as well pick up the American Revolution …
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There’s a yearly event that takes place near the top the Blue Ridge at the Clarke and Loudoun counties line on Route 7. You may have noticed a wide parking area on the east bound side of the highway. The Appalachian Trail adjoins this area and there are usually vehicles parked there: car poo…
STAUNTON, Va. — Farm Credit of the Virginias has rolled out 2 programs for its customer-owners.
Farm Credit of the Virginias launched its new website in early September with customer experience and business development in mind.
CHARLESTON — Agriculture sales dropped 7 percent in 2019, the USDA is reporting.
CHARLESTON — The application period for the state’s industrial hemp program opened on Sept. 1 for the 2021 growing season.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture launched a new consumer-focused website last week.
I've been a real bum this summer. One of the benefits that seniors receive as a result of FDR's New Deal along with this column, my magazine columns and a couple of mowing gigs made this possible. Tractor repair work has been limited to emergencies until the weather cools.
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"Harvest time" so declares a headline above a close-up orchard harvest scene on the front page of the Aug. 31 Winchester Star. A happy man looks at the camera from behind a nearly full, 22-bushel bin of apples. The apples are quite sizable and ranging from green to yellow. "Summer Rambos," I…
JACKSON’S MILL — The West Virginia Agriculture and Forestry Hall of Fame Foundation will recognize 10 people for their contributions to the agricultural, forestry and family life of West Virginia.
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Tractor-trailer loads of wooden bins filled with green/yellow apples have been rolling into the cold storage and apple processing plants for about 2 weeks now. Even with the recent expansion of Winchester, Va., this area on the town’s north end is still easily accessible by heavy truck. Howe…
Billy, our new orchard hand, was one of those “smart axles” that some of the permanent farm hands loved to hate.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia is to receive an additional $24 million worth of food commodities in 2020 through the Emergency Food Assistance Program and CARES Act.
WASHINGTON — Organic producers and handlers can apply for federal funds to assist with the cost of receiving and maintaining organic certification through the Organic Certification Cost Share Program.
CHARLESTON — Hay production in West Virginia is forecast to increase this year.
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WASHINGTON — A new annual survey of farmers, ranchers and private forestland owners will help the U.S. Department of Agriculture understand what it is doing well and where improvements are needed, specifically at the Farm Service Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service and Risk Manage…
WASHINGTON — To assist Farm Storage Facility Loan borrowers experiencing financial hardship from the pandemic and other challenges in production agriculture, USDA’s Farm Service Agency is offering a 1-time annual installment payment deferral option.
WASHINGTON — Additional commodities are being covered by the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program in response to public comments and data.
Betsy Frankhorn is the name given to Hampshire County bus 76. I don’t know the origins of this name other than it was suggested and voted upon by the bus’s passengers. I can only hope that it doesn’t have any inappropriate connotations. These days, it’s very difficult to keep abreast of curr…
Farm Credit’s branches in Romney and Moorefield have paid out more than $1.5 million in dividends this month.
MORGANTOWN — Rules for emergency haying and grazing use of acres enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program are now streamlined.
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Agriculture has resumed its series of live webinars on agricultural topics.
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