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Clear Spring Elementary School hosted its second Golden Table Luncheon of the school year Dec. 15. The event honored students who demonstrated the Character Counts! traits of character and respect during the months of November and December.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. -- The $1 million promised to Jefferson County after the introduction of table games at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races could be in jeopardy because of a "misinterpretation" of the legislation that set up the funding, county officials said Friday. The Jefferson County Commissioners and the county's five municipalities are supposed to share the money, with half going to the commissioners and half to the municipalities based on population. "We've already budgeted our $500,000, and the municipalities are in the same boat," County Commissioner Patsy Noland said.

HAGERSTOWN -- They call themselves "Around the Table," and the idea came as a group of Christian friends gathered for a meal in Tracy Clipp's kitchen. In search of doing something meaningful for a holiday, the group settled on a plan to prepare a community Thanksgiving dinner. This past Thanksgiving was the 10th year for the dinner, which is now served at St. John's Lutheran Church in Hagerstown. Clipp, 39, helps coordinate the meal. "It started with the group of us -- four couples -- sitting around the kitchen table eating potpie," Clipp said.

The Eastern Panhandle retained “prime seats” at the table of legislative power with the election of Sen. Jeff Kessler Monday evening as president of the West Virginia Senate, according to state Sens. John Unger and Herb Snyder. Unger, D-Berkeley/Jefferson, was named Senate Majority Leader and Snyder, D-Jefferson/Berkeley, was tapped to chair one of the Senate's four major committees in January when Kessler took charge of the chamber in January as acting president after Earl Ray Tomblin became acting governor.