Ranson and Jefferson County convention and visitors bureaus, or CVBs]. As president of the board of directors for the Ranson CVB and a volunteer with the Ransom CVB for about 20 years, I am not in ...

Laura Storm gave the following remarks to the Ranson City Council on April 16. She is responding to a proposal to dissolve the Ranson Convention and Visitors Bureau to have ...

Bill Ridenour, the Republican delegate representing Jefferson County in the 100th District, submitted a piece in the Spirit (published April 17) dealing with what he calls the “illegal alien scourge ...

Local Republicans got the memo from the main office to replace the use of the phrase solar farms with solar compounds. A local daily newspaper used the phrase for a ...

Deep in that October night when everyone was asleep, John Brown and his 21 armed men slipped silently from their rented cabin ...

Tanya Gossett has been selected to serve as the new superintendent for Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. She currently ...

The oldest grave marker dates back to 1879, for a man named Lewis Cooke.

Bit by bit Jefferson County is losing part of its history as African-American burial grounds are encroached upon by builders, ...

In recognition of Earth Day and Arbor Day, Charles Town Tree Board members and other volunteers last Saturday planted 23 ...

Jefferson County is a rich area of agricultural production for the state of West Virginia. But according to the Jefferson ...

Jefferson High School boys and girls track and field teams do well is staying the course. With Craig Hunter directing the ...

The number of examining rooms for Jefferson County will double along with more office space for physicians in a plan ...