inthepanhandle.com has always been about sharing information.

Over the past couple months we've been hard at work creating and sharing more local content on inthepanhandle.com - in the form of more pictures, video streams, articles and calendar events.

We've taken to using widely available tools to help standardize our content creation and promotion - i.e.. More about: A Look Inside the Redesign of inthepanhandle.com

We've added two new RSS feeds to inthepanhandle.com to accommodate added services that we're integrating into our site.

We've recently started using Twitter to post site updates, news, etc. So, if you are a Twitter user, feel free to Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/inthepanhandle or if you are not a Twitter user, you can stay up to date by subscribing to our More about: New RSS Feeds from inthepanhandle.com

You may or may not know that we have a growing list of local restaurant menus available for download on inthepanhandle.com. In fact, our restaurant menu page is the third most visited page on our site.

Currently, we have 17 menus available for download / viewing.

Our menu page includes a scanned PDF of the restaurant menu, a link to the listing for that business (including contact information, map, etc), a... More about: New Menus Added; Habanero, Tony's Pizza and Vocelli

A quick recap of our Apple Butter festival coverage (if you want to call it that).

It was our intent to provide a live video stream of the Apple Butter Festival Parade and post updates via our twitter account. Well, we got it half right.

The day started out well enough. We got a parking space without paying - a good omen to say the least. We walked downtown and found a good spot with access to the Berkeley Springs State Park WiFi and a good viewing angle that was close enough to... More about: Technology: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

inthepanhandle.com will be offering a live video stream (WiFi permitting) of the 2008 Apple Butter Parade in Berkeley Springs, WV. You can view our stream on our homepage.

We will also be mulling about tweeting anything we find interesting on our Twitter account.

inthepanhandle.com Twitter Feed
http://twitter.com/inthepanhandle

More about: Live Apple Butter Parade Coverage (Video & Twitter)

As a sponsor of the 2008 Martinsburg-Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce Business Expo we were happy with the exposure that our business received leading up to the event and felt like whatever exposure we got at the expo would be a bonus.

We, and by we I mean Firebrand Media, designed the logo for the Expo as well as the overall look of the advertising pieces, brochures and rack-cards.

We weren't really sure what to expect as far as... More about: Business Expo a Success, How About the Chili Cook-Off?

inthepanhandle.com is looking for a bold, energetic individual with good writing skills to help create content on inthepanhandle.com.

Position requirements include:
- Ability to interview individuals and business owners.
- Ability to compose articles / stories.
- Ability to take pictures with supplied digital camera.
- Basic computer skills.

Position is for 20 hours per week. Salary negotiable. Position offers flexibility and... More about: Position Opening: Writer / Content Creator

Elly and I just wrapped up a perfectly wonderful weekend at the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University, right in our adopted home town of Shepherdstown, WV. I've already written about some of it. We saw THE OVERWHELMING, about the devastating Rwanda Genocide of the 90s; then we saw PIG FARM, by Greg Kotis, whose surreal and entertaining writing we were used to form Urinetown, which I directed in Greenbelt; we attended a tent lecture where we got to hear a little bit... More about: Great Weekend at the CATF

As I checked my e-mail over coffee, I discovered that I had won the Japanese/European Lottery and I was now 1,000,000 Euros richer. Wow! And all I had to do was reply to Mr. Hirohito, who sent the message, and he would get back to me and tell me what to do.

I'll bet he would need my Social Security Number (that's a big requirement in Europe or Japan for identifying lucky Americans, isn't it?).

Or, more likely, I would have to send Mr. Hirohito $1,000.00 to show good... More about: Why do I win so many lotteries?

It's Saturday. Let's take a break from politics.

Elly and I live in a townhouse with a very small back yard. Two months ago we had our deck and fence built, partly so there would be some protected yard to let the dogs out in, and partly so we could start gardening for the spring.

The problem was, in order to comply with Shepherdstown's zoning regulations, we couldn't build the fence out as far as the end of the property line - indeed, we had to come about ten... More about: Have a Small Back Yard? Try a Bucket Garden