Harpers Ferry News

John Browna s descendants relived the raid on Harpers Ferry, W.Va., during the eventa s sesquicentennial on Oct.

Getting there From Lebanon, drive west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Exit 236.

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2009 House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business First Vote Predicted... 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. "One Minutes" Suspensions S. 1929 - Providing for additional a temporary extension of programs under the ...

A Jefferson County school bus driver was one of two people arrested on drug charges Wednesday afternoon after a traffic stop led to the seizure of marijuana.

Workers at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park are focused on cleanup and repairs after discovering a leaking heating-fuel line.

A school bus driver has been arrested on drug charges in Jefferson County. Harpers Ferry Police say they found 21 packets of marijuana in Anthony Gaddy's car.

Talk about a warm welcome on a cold rainy day. We were searching for a restaurant in historic Harpers Ferry, Wand asked a man on the street for directions.

For long, the ties have bound in a general way church and business for civil rights, a just society and a better world, which nonetheless wreaks in war in Afghanistan and other places.

Gentle readers, I'll bet you've never heard of the Secret Six. Neither had I until a few years ago.

The beginning of their five-mile walk, the log farmhouse in western Maryland, is the very spot where Brown and his raiders left for the Federal Arsenal in Harpers Ferry.

The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce put on its ninth annual Public Service Recognition Banquet to honor the finest in law enforcement and other first responders in Jefferson County on Tuesday night.

As part of the kickoff for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and also the commemoration of John Brown's Raid, the town of Harpers Ferry is presenting what many believe to be the most powerful drama ever created about the bloody time of war.

Just as cold, damp weather couldn't quench John Brown's incendiary fervor, it didn't discourage those determined to follow the radical abolitionist's footsteps Friday, 150 years after he launched the raid that kindled the Civil War.

State Forestry officials urge residents and visitors to get out to see West Virginiaa s colorful fall foliage while they can.

Oct. 17, 2009 HARPERS FERRY: John Brown's Raid at 150 By Stephen N. Reed If you're in the D.C. area this weekend and want a real tune-up of your American history, the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry to free the slaves provides not only great history lessons but Christian worldview discussions, as well.

Shenandoah River at Harper's Ferry, W.Va., in 1959, looking towards Bolivar Height and Catholic Chuch.

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. -- A $30,000 grant from The Conservation Alliance may help protect more than 1,000 acres along the Appalachian Trail from development.

Landscapes by the late Garnet Jex on view at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts depict scenes from Harpers Ferry, W.Va., as though the Civil War had just come and gone.

His attempts were thwarted by Confederate Troops and Brown was tried for treason and hanged.

On a Sunday night in October,150 years ago, abolitionist John Brown led a band of raiders from the Kennedy Farmhouse in Maryland on a six mile march to the train station at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.