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First Aid Kit for Your Pet By Dr. Catherine Reiss One of the best ways to be prepared for your pet’s emergency is to have a basic first aid kit available. It could be a backpack or a fancy tackle box—both are great projects for kids to decorate! Here is my list of “must have” […]
By Colleen Lentile The Observer’s summer journalism intern Colleen Lentile wanted to know how her peers summed up the college preparation they received at Clarke County High School, so she talked with four CCHS grads who, coincidentally, graduated over the previous four years. Katie Lese As a spirited graduate of CCHS Class of 2010, Katie […]
By Colleen Lentile Quidditch instructor? Wipeout coach? Olympic judge? The answer is, “Yes, she is! Amy Lowell, D.G. Cooley Elementary School’s Physical Education Instructor, fulfills all of these titles, plus many more—all in her gymnasium. From walking her dog through town to hosting challenging physical events, she inspires her students to get fit in and […]
The story of Watermelon Park and the Clarke County family that invented the bluegrass festival By Jennifer Lee Drive by Watermelon Park on any summer day, and you’ll see between a dozen and several hundred people enjoying a picnic, a river float, some fishing. Talk to John U. Miller, Jr., or Junior as he’s known […]
Few things arouse our passions and evoke our unbridled opinions like our public school systems. No surprise there. Everyone is an owner. Everyone, either directly or indirectly, pays into the system. And everyone benefits from education, either as a student or as a member of a society with an expanded knowledge base and literacy rate—at […]
15 The Shenandoah Riverside Festival Watermelon Park. This family-friendly event and fundraiser for Shenandoah River conservation features award-winning bluegrass artists, including Russell Moore & III Tyme Out, the Lonesome River Band, The Hackensaw Boys, Lonesome Highway, Dry Mill Road, The Woodshedders, Holy Ghost Tent Revival, Circa Blue, Porch Picker’s Brigade, Stoney Creek Bluegrass Band, and […]
Budding Artists Through June 22 There is still time to stop by Berryville Main Street’s Fire House Gallery at 23 East Main Street to see the Budding Artists exhibit, hosting in partnership with Heritage Child Development Center. About 80 pieces are on display, all created by children—some as young as three months old. Gallery Welcomes Watercolor Artist […]
Battletown Animal Clinic Now Offers Grooming Battletown Animal Clinic has provided veterinary services to Berryville residents and their pets for 30 years. Now Battletown’s patients at the clinic can drop in as customers at the clinic’s new grooming salon for pets. Located adjacent to the clinic on Lord Fairfax Highway, Berryville, Battletown Grooming is staffed […]
To Help A Box Turtle By Doug Pifer I’m worried. I have yet to see a box turtle this year. Box turtles are fist-sized land turtles so named because the underside of their plastron (the flat, bottom half of the shell that rests on the ground) is hinged like the lid on a box, so […]