The Shepherdstown Chronicle

19/12/2025

"You can’t help but feel more in the Christmas spirit, after hearing them play.” 🎄

SHEPHERDSTOWN — For the many years they were living in Maryland, the Alexander family would find themselves making the trip over to Baltimore every December, to participate in the closest Tuba Christmas celebration to them. The family had inherited a love for music from previous generations, along...

11/12/2025

"The answer is always to tell their parents, ‘Don’t worry. Next year they’ll be fine and will have a list."

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Over his 21 years of portraying Santa Claus at Christmas events throughout Shepherdstown, Mark “Jimmy” Crain has never lost his love for the holiday season. Even, in spite of the difficulties that can arise while playing the role. “There’s this age — maybe two or three .....

03/12/2025

Saddened to announce our closure at the end of the month, after 34 years of service to the Shepherdstown community. A full announcement from our publisher can be found in this week's edition.
Thank you to all of you who have contributed and faithfully subscribed to this newspaper over the years! We are so grateful for each one of you and what you have allowed us to build here.

03/12/2025

“On the Saturday after Thanksgiving every year, I make this trip.”

SHEPHERDSTOWN — “I came here for Small Business Saturday,” said Elaine Michael, of Boonsboro, Md., as she shopped in downtown Shepherdstown on Saturday afternoon. For Michael, participating in the annual shopping day has become a tradition for her, which she observes both in her home town and ...

03/12/2025

26/11/2025

"This year will be our swan song. We have certainly been doing it for a long time."🎄🤶

SHEPHERDSTOWN — This will be the last Christmas in Shepherdstown overseen by the Shepherd family and its matriarch, Judy Shepherd, after three decades at the reigns. It will be quite a change for the town, as it will mean that next year will be the first ever in which a Christmas in Shepherdstown ...

21/11/2025

“Wow — what a great gift and a great way to build community!"🦃

SHEPHERDSTOWN — This Thanksgiving, the entire community has been invited to come to Alma Bea from 12-3 p.m., for a free dinner. Alma Bea restaurant owner Mary Ellen Diaz decided to hold the dinner this year, to fill a need in the community caused by recent actions of the federal government. “Kno...

14/11/2025

"We have talents and are still active and are living vibrant lives, event at an older age."

SHEPHERDSTOWN — A group of Shepherd University students crowded around a table filled with rare and collectible coins in the Trinity Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall on Saturday. The table, which featured the collection of Shepherdstown Area Independent Living (SAIL) member Paul Kradel, was one of...

07/11/2025

“We discovered it six months ago. Now we visit here about every two weeks." 🪄

SHEPHERDSTOWN — One-year-old Cormac Dwyer and his sister, three-year-old Theo Dwyer, could be found playing with fairy figurines and bubbles at the fairy garden in Bane-Harris Commemorative Park on Oct. 28. For them, the fairy garden has become a magical place they regularly return to visit with t...

31/10/2025

“It’s still pub food, but it’s a step above the average."🍲

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Within the first hour of its grand opening, Stoney’s Pub could be found brimming with life, as customers filled every seat at its bar and many of the tables in its dining area on Oct. 22. Located at 107 South Princess Street in Shepherdstown, the pub is now the second Stoney’s ...