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By Annie Young While hobby gardeners idly sift though seed catalogs scheming of spring, full-time famers are hard at work. They have been peeling snow off greenhouses, willing diesel motors to start to lug feed to livestock and amping up websites and marketing outlets. But both gardeners and farmers are gearing up for planting […]
February 154-H Volunteer Leaders Spaghetti Dinner & Auction Clarke County Ruritan Building. 5pm-7pm. Featuring Apple Crisp dessert from Mackintosh Farms and a live auction at 6:30. Funds from this event will support 4-H camp scholarships, educational competitions, higher education scholarships, community service projects, workshops, livestock clinics and achievement recognition programs. Contact Teri Gordon at […]
The story you’re about to hear is true. After spending the day cooped up in a hotel conference room in a New England state-capital town, I decided to revive myself with a walk through the historic neighborhoods to enjoy the architecture and gardens. In the dooryard (yeah, they actually call the side yard a dooryard) […]
By William Bigelow I was surprised and disappointed Tuesday night to witness the Chicken Ordinance be tabled for now. It should be noted that the three members of the Berryville Town Council who voted it down were not the ones on the relevant committees that had worked on it. Chances are, at least one or […]
By Angie Rosser On January 9, I was one of 300,000 West Virginians who learned their water had been contaminated by a chemical leak two miles upstream from the state’s largest drinking-water intake. Predictably, politicians and the public are clamoring for heads to roll—most notably those of managers at the Freedom Industries plant responsible for […]
By David Lillard The Barns of Rose Hill announced that Diana Kincannon would return to the Barns of Rose Hill to serve as chairman of its board of directors. Her term of office began January 1. Kincannon led the capital campaign from 2004 to 2011 that resulted in the restoration of the Barns in Rose […]
By David Lillard The Town of Berryville has released a market feasibility study for developing a hotel site at the corner of U.S. 340 and Virginia State Road 7 north of town. The study, conducted by the Florida-based firm Nichols Hospitality Consulting, Inc., projects that a hotel on the site would generate more than $20,000 […]
By Steve Chase Here’s a list of music I really liked this past year. While not a classic “best of 2013 list,” it reflects music that I think made 2013 special—especially for anyone interested in going beyond the bounds of pop music. Here’s the link to the Spotify playlist I created to share the music […]
By JiJi Russell There I sat, nearly two weeks into a back injury. Precious little accomplished during my days off work for the holidays. Oh, the drawers and closets that I was going to organize. The meals I’d make ahead; the new crafts I’d do with the kids. The exercise! Not much of that happened. […]