Station project still on track in Shepherdstown
By DAVE McMILLION / Staff Writer, Charles Town
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - The effort to convert an old train station in Shepherdstown into a center offering health services and space for community events is coming to fruition.
Organizers of the project are negotiating with a dentist who wants to move into the building, and classes to teach karate, fencing and other subjects already are being held in the building, said Rob Northrup, president of The Station at Shepherdstown.
Shepherd College has been holding some of its nursing classes there, and local caterer Sylvia Ellsworth has agreed to work as a booking agent to arrange chamber music events and similar activities at the station, Northrup said.
"I think it's going to be real exciting," Northrup said recently at the Shepherdstown Men's Club. Northrup spoke to about 80 people last week at a meeting of the club to update them on the progress of the project.