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by Diana Kincannon I recently received an honor of which I’m very proud: The 2023 Citizen of the Year Award from the Top of Virginia Chamber of Commerce. The award was in recognition of my years of work for the Barns of Rose Hill, a project to salvage two very old barns in Berryville’s town […]
Clarke Animal Shelter Has New Hours The Clarke Animal Shelter revised its hours in March to better serve the animals in its care and the humans who come to visit. New visiting hours are: 10:30am to 4pm Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays; 11am to 6pm Fridays; 10am to 4pm Saturdays. The shelter is closed on Sundays, […]
By Brenda Waugh Two Clarke County residents are taking their talents over the border to West Virginia for a statewide conference to be held in June. The West Virginia Restorative Justice Summit will be held on the campus of West Virginia Wesleyan College from June 14 through June 15, 2024. The summit brings together community members, […]
Story and image by Doug Pifer My ears caught the high-pitched calls of wild geese. I spied three V-shaped strings of tiny dots crossing the March sky. Doubting whether the geese would show up in a photo, I snapped a picture with my phone anyway. After enlarging the picture I counted 220 individual geese. Headed […]
By Matthew Bass This spring the Clarke County High School sports community bids farewell to a mainstay of Eagles athletics for over two decades, wrestling coach Jon VanSice, who retired following the 2023–24 season. Before he built the wrestling program from the ground up into a state powerhouse, Coach VanSice mentored his two boys, Kyle […]
By Jon Goldberg Join the Main Street Chamber Orchestra on Saturday, April 13 at 4pm, at Grace Episcopal Church, Berryville, for a performance of Beethoven’s groundbreaking Symphony #3, the Eroica. Long considered one of the two or three greatest works in the classical canon, the MSCO is excited to bring this work to our community. “Eroica” […]
Protection for rare sinkhole ponds, wetlands funded by natural resources damage settlement More than 35 acres have recently been added to two Virginia natural area preserves in Augusta County as part of a long-term, multimillion-dollar effort to restore the South Fork Shenandoah River watershed contaminated by mercury decades ago. The Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, […]