Bobbie Jo Riggleman, Little Orleans, Md., and Serafino R. Visco, Berkeley Springs, were married July 19, 2007 by Steve Dawson at Visco's home. They also plan a church wedding this month.
Lillian Keller gave Morningside a presentation on "Living Within Your Means" at their July meeting. Keller spoke on ways to save money from shopping at lower-price food stores to asking a physician for prescription samples.
The Meditation "The Rose" was given by Doris Diorio. Ann Ladd stated that 27 Linus blankets were made by the CEOS clubs. Eleanor Effland reported from the Continuing Education Committee on the "short story" and "Poetry" entries.
We all have memories of when we first heard that the Morgan County Courthouse was burning one year ago today. We remember the visual shock as we first came by the site and how it took a while for the loss to sink in.
Commissioner Brenda Hutchinson shared memories of the morning of the courthouse fire in a recent interview. She said that she'd gotten a phone call from her brother that morning at 5:30 a.m. saying that the courthouse was on fire.
I was five months pregnant when the Morgan County Courthouse burned. I will tell my son the story of that morning when he is older, when the only county courthouse he knows is the one we'll call "the new courthouse."
"Considering what it could have been, it's very user-friendly," said Bette Kidwell of the trailer that has housed her County Commission office for the last year.
Like her fellow county employees, Kidwell has made the best of the "temporary" offices brought in just a week after the Morgan County Courthouse burned.
Living near Cacapon State Park, I usually drive into Berkeley Springs from the south. For me and many others, the old courthouse was the main landmark in town.
Seventy-five thousand new trees in Morgan County in 18 months is nothing to shake a stick at. But Forester Herb Peddicord had hoped Morgan County would be a little bit greener by now.
The tree planting initiative he kicked off in January 2006 had a big goal – for Morgan Countians to plant 250,000 trees by December 2008.
Nichole "Nikki" Robertson Apolinares, 27, of Brunswick, Maryland died Thursday, July 26.
Apolinares had been burned over 95% of her body in a propane gas explosion and fire on Sunday, July 15 when she tried to light a gas stove inside a camper parked at the Sleepy Creek campsite.
Dr. Matthew Hahn of Tri-State Community Health Center was named a finalist for the 2008 American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Family Physician of the Year.
