Governor Larry Hogan declared August 7-13 as Maryland Farmers’ Market Week to recognize the 97 farmers markets across the state that provide citizens with access to fresh, local produce and other Maryland-made items. He encourages residents and visitors to celebrate Maryland Farmers’ Market Week by visiting a nearby market[Read More…]
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Become a Weed Warrior with Potomac Valley Audubon
The Potomac Audubon Society is recruiting “Weed Warriors” to help maintain four nature preserves, totaling over 500 acres, located in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The program includes training by PVAS’s Land Manager to become a certified “Weed Warrior.” Certified “Weed Warriors” will be given the knowledge and the[Read More…]
Enjoy the free concerts
Dear Editor: On Saturday evening, July 9, my wife and I accompanied our daughter, a Hancock resident, to a free concert sponsored by The Hancock Arts Council in the pavilion in the Kirkwood Park, off Creek Road. Our daughter and her Ukulele group, the “Tri-State Ukulectics” provided the warmup for[Read More…]
National Night Out Tuesday, August 2
by Geoff Fox Next Tuesday, August 2, Widmeyer Park will be a busy place as folks from around the Hancock park for National Night Out. National Night Out begins at 6 p.m. This year’s event will once again have free food prepared by the Hancock Lions Club with hot dogs,[Read More…]
Young Ukes to give free concert at Kirkwood July 29
Youth ukulele musicians will present a free performance of summer songs at Hancock’s Kirkwood Park on Friday, July 29. The Young Yukes performing group will produce and perform their own show, “Sounds of Summer.” This free concert will be held at Kirkwood Park Pavilion in Hancock at 6 p.m., rain[Read More…]
Open Mic Night was successful
Summer brings new faces to Hancock
by Lisa Schauer Sunny skies and warm weather drew families to Hancock on Monday afternoon to enjoy the town’s outdoor activities. Bella Shoemaker, 12, of Berkeley Springs was playing beach volleyball at Widmeyer Park with her mom, who said they came to Hancock to do something different. “I’m practicing to[Read More…]
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King Soul Band opens Summer Concert in the Park series
The King Soul Band will open the Morgan Art Council’ s 2022 Concert in the Park series on Saturday, July 9 at Berkeley Springs State Park. Born of a mutual passion for the sounds of an earlier time, eight-piece band King Soul is brining old-school Southern Soul to a new[Read More…]
Cole’s Cavalry had local troopers; reunions marked Loudoun Heights fight
by Steve French Recently, Cinda O’Neill Drogemeyer, of the Morgan County Historical Society loaned me the files of Berkeley Springs historian, the late Frederick Newbraugh. Fred, still widely-known in Mountain State historical circles for his 3-volume, not-to- be-surpassed, W arm Springs Echoes, was a tireless researcher who in pre-Internet days[Read More…]
