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The 2025 Potomac River Report Card from the non-profit Potomac Conservancy has given the river a "B" health grade.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSix such sites ring West Virginia, according to the group Earthjustice, and they pose hazards to rivers and groundwater.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHouse lawmakers voted to oppose Maryland efforts to reclassify parts of the Potomac River to protect cold water aquatic life from climate change.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCurtis Tate spoke with Nicolas Zegre, an associate professor of forest hydrology at West Virginia University, about what’s behind this trend.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsIf you had to bet on one, I would say Shepherdstown was probably founded first, simply because it's on an important thoroughfare connecting the Shenandoah Valley to the important Delaware ports, where a lot of European migrants, principally Scots Irish and German migrants, were arriving in the 18th century. So it's likely that these migrants arrived at the banks of the Potomac River in the valley before they arrived in the South Branch Valley. So it's likely that Shepherdstown was founded earlier.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe Jefferson County Farmland Protection Board will use the funding to preserve 149 acres that played a role in the lesser-known battle that took place days after Antietam in September 1862.
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