One of our promotions for the Martinsburg Community Day at the Hagerstown Suns was to give away two iPods. The first iPod was given away during the game. The second iPod, an iPod nano, was part of our 2nd chance drawing. We kept all of the ticket stubs that we received and drew the winning number for the second iPod.

The winning number is: 2884046

If you have that ticket stub then you are the winner! Please contact Firebrand Media /... More about: 2nd Chance iPod Winner - Click to see the winning number!

About a year ago, in response to the feedback we received in the aftermath of the fire at the Berkeley Springs Courthouse, we launched Panhandle Paparazzi - an area of the site where users could send us their pictures, news, press releases, etc. and we would post them for all of eastern WV (and the World) to see.

When we moved inthepanhandle.com to a new server in early 2007, we left Panhandle Paparrazzi off of our moving van.

Well, it's back! Panhandle Paparazzi Lives and is... More about: Bringing Paparazzi Back!

inthepanhandle.com turns one year old today!

While the conception and development of the site started in 2005, we officially launched inthepanhandle.com on April 1, 2006. When the site first launched, it was strictly a business directory - with roughly 500 businesses.

Since that time we have added a number of features to make the site appeal to a broader audience of users. Features that we've added include; local and national news, sports news, financial news, movie... More about: Happy Birthday inthepanhandle.com

Over the course of the past 3 months, we've worked hard to add value to the advertising packages available on inthepanhandle.com by adding features which benefit not only the businesses that take advantage of them but also the eastern panhandle community in general.

Today, we have decided to add some previously Premium Package only features to the Free, Basic and Advanced advertising packages. We think that by allowing all businesses to take advantage of these features, on a limited... More about: Features added to Free, Basic and Advanced Listings

The Movie Showtimes page on inthepanhandle.com has always been a great resource - but in the past only displayed current movie listings for the Regal Cinema in Martinsburg. This was always a problem because most of us, when looking for a movie, are willing to travel to Hagerstown or Winchester to see the movie we want.

Well, we've solved that.

The new... More about: Movie Showtimes - New and Improved!

inthepanhandle.com sponsored a Youth Rally at Berkeley Baptist Church this past weekend. We provided an iPod Shuffle which was given away as part of the festivities.

The youth rally was attended by between 75 and 100 people. Events included a 3-on-3 baskeball tournament that included 14 teams, a praise band, pizza, a competition to see how many youth could fit in a Volvo (a lot!) and many other activites.

Congratulations to Matthew Stevens, the winner of the iPod Shuffle (pictured... More about: inthepanhandle.com Sponsors Youth Rally

One of our goals for 2007 was to make inthepanhandle.com more user-friendly. One way we hoped to achieve that goal was to provide better support.

Today, we've taken a step in that direction by adding Live Chat Support to the site. Visitors can now chat with inthepanhandle.com support by visiting the Live Chat page. (note - Live Chat is currently available only through this blog... More about: Live Chat Support now available

inthepanhandle.com has added a new feature for owners of local websites which will allow them to provide their visitors with an easy way to find any of the over 900 businesses found in inthepanhandle.com.

We call this Local Search. Local Search is a bit of code which webmasters can copy/paste into the code of their website to add a small inthepanhandle.com search box to their webpage. This search box allows visitors to search the entire directory by keyword.

Businesses like... More about: Add Local Search To Your Website

inthepanhandle.com has added an easy way to remember you favorite business listings using del.icio.us and Yahoo! MyWeb. Del.icio.us and Yahoo! MyWeb are both online tools for keeping track of your links (or bookmarks).

What is del.icio.us? del.icio.us is a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's. Use del.icio.us to:
• Keep links to your favorite articles, blogs, music, restaurant reviews, and more on del.icio.us and... More about: Del.icio.us and Yahoo! MyWeb Links Added

In an effort to provide more functionality to users and visitors of inthepanhandle.com, we have just launched the FREE inthepanhandle.com Classifieds page.

The inthepanhandle.com Classifieds are currently in Beta (meaning - we are still testing it out and there may be some minor bugs here and there) but we should have all of the bugs worked out within the next two weeks.

In the mean time, feel free to post... More about: Free Classifieds Launched