Recorder ensemble seeks participantsSHEPHERDSTOWN — Bring your nice wooden heirlooms or dust off your plastic Yamaha and join the Shepherd Community Recorder Ensemble under the direction of Andrea Diggs, adjunct music professor.
Youth and adults who can read music and know basic recorder fingerings will learn a wide variety of music and prepare for a concert at the end of each semester. Rehearsals will take place Mondays — Aug. 21-Nov. 27 — from 6-7:20 p.m., with a concert on Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Frank Arts Center Theater.
The fee for participation is $150. There are limited scholarships available. Registrations are accepted until Sept. 1. For more information and to register, contact communitymusic@shepherd.edu.
Capito announces mobile office dates CHARLESTON — U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., on Tuesday announced new mobile office dates and locations throughout West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands during the months of August and September.
Members of Capito’s staff will be available to provide constituents one-on-one assistance with casework and other issues they may be experiencing with federal agencies. Appointments are not required but are encouraged, and they can be made by visiting Capito’s mobile office page on her website.
Local dates include:
• Friday, Sept. 1: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Berkeley Springs Senior Center, 106 Sand Mine Road, Berkeley Springs
• Wednesday, Sept. 6: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Berkeley Senior Services, 217 N. High St., Martinsburg
• Thursday, Sept. 7: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Paw Paw Senior Center, 738 Winchester St., Paw Paw
• Tuesday, Sept. 19: 11:30 to 12:30 p.m., Jefferson County Senior Center, 103 W. 5th Ave., Ranson
Maryland residents who died in North Carolina identifiedKILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. (AP) — Three Maryland residents who died and three others who were injured in a house fire last week in North Carolina’s Outer Banks were identified by officials Monday.
Those who died were identified as Sienna Farr, 13, of Silver Spring, and married couple Colleen Cohan, 64, and William Deeg, 68, of Ashton.
Farr’s mother, Laura Volk, 48, and her boyfriend, David Brewer, 55, were being treated Monday in the burn unit at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia. Both were in stable condition, said Rachel Tackett, public information officer for the town of Kill Devil Hills.
Also injured was Volk’s daughter Sadie Farr, 16, who was treated locally at the Outer Banks Hospital and released last Friday.
All were vacationing in a waterfront rental home that was engulfed by the blaze in the pre-dawn hours Friday along North Virginia Dare Trail. Two neighboring properties were also damaged.
The cause of the fire remains undetermined, according to Tackett.
“Many hearts across the Outer Banks and Maryland communities are left to heal following this tragic incident,” she said.
The Kill Devil Hills Fire Marshal, the Dare County Fire Marshal and the State Bureau of Investigation are investigating.