Free Fishing Weekend Planned June 10, 11
West Virginia’s Free Fishing Weekend will return June 10-11, 2023.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA group of about 70 protestors stood outside the Charles Town Library, which is the building that houses county commission meetings. Many among them used nearly an hour of public comment time during the meeting to voice displeasure over the commission’s inaction.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA Jefferson County commissioner is under scrutiny after a photo of her with alleged members of a hate group circulated on Facebook.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCivil rights trailblazer J. R. Clifford died on October 6, 1933, at age 85. He served in an African American unit during the Civil War and founded Martinsburg’s Pioneer Press, the first black-owned newspaper in West Virginia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsPoet Anne Spencer died on July 27, 1975, at age 93. Born Annie Bethel Bannister in Virginia, she and her mother moved to Bramwell in Mercer County, West…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe executive director of an office charged with reviewing research on policies that disproportionately affect minority populations says she doesn't plan…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsA long-time advocate for civil rights among African-Americans in West Virginia has passed away.James Alvin Tolbert Sr, passed away last week in hospice…
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