Local Events

The Humane Society of Morgan County is kicking off their Second Annual Spring Challenge event. This is the single most important fundraising campaign of the entire year for the Humane Society of Morgan County. The success of this Spring Challenge Campaign directly determines the budget for the rest of the year and determines what they can accomplish.

This once-a-year Spring Challenge is their single largest and most important source of funding, from the community and supporters. Because the Humane Society of Morgan County does not receive any government funds nor any money from the Humane Society of the United States almost all of its funding is from donations with a small annual grant from the United Way.

Join Nature Niche on a winter bird watching trip on Sunday, February 17, at 7:45 a.m.

Spring might be a more notable time to look for birds, but the truth is the bird community is still very active even in the winter months!

It has been announced that the Hancock Fire Company has signed a contract with the Kelly Miller Circus for the exhibition of an all new 2008 show.

The circus will come into town on Tuesday, May 27. Everyone is welcome to watch the animals being unloaded and fed, and the elephants raising the big top.

Morgan County Chapter 2263 of NARFE, the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association, will meet Tuesday, February 19, at Cacapon Lodge, Cacapon State Park. The meeting will immediately follow a Dutch treat lunch, served at noon.

Bath Chief of Police Jim Minton will be the speaker. His topics of discussion will be issues in and around Morgan County concerning the police department and home invasion and security.

Habitat for Humanity of the Eastern Panhandle will meet Monday, February 25 at 7 p.m. at Union Chapel United Methodist Church, 10123 Valley Road, Berkeley Springs, about one half mile south of Cacapon State Park on Route 522 South.

Property for Habitat homes has been acquired in Berkeley Springs. Plans for a fundraising campaign throughout the community to provide construction funds for the first Habitat home in Morgan are being finalized.

Berkeley Springs, wrestling shorthanded, managed a fourth place finish in the nine-team Potomac Valley Conference Meet. Though they finished fourth in the team race, the Indians still managed to crown five individual champions and place two others in the top three.

Keyser won the conference meet with 178 points. Musselman finished a close second with 172 points, followed by Keyser 165, Berkeley Springs 158, Petersburg 126, Martinsburg 70.5, Jefferson County 65.5, Frankfort 57.5 and Moorefield 10.

The 146th anniversary of Stonewall Jackson's Bath-Romney Campaign of 1862 will be marked on January 18-20 in Berkeley Springs.

Events include a multi-media presentation on Friday night about this prelude to General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign, living history encampments and reenactment marches over original routes followed by Jackson's troops.

Hospice of the Panhandle is offering a free Volunteer Training Program at Pleasant View Community Center, located on Route 9 between Hedgesville and Berkeley Springs. Anyone interested in becoming a Hospice Volunteer is encouraged to attend.

Hospice 101 will be held Tuesday, January 22, from 10 – 11:30 a.m. Direct Service Training will be held January 22, 24, 29, & 31 from 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

The Community Choir, Inc. has announced that spring season rehearsals for the Sleepy Creek Children's Choir, a children and youth chorale under the direction of Denise Cline, and the Living Springs Chorale, a mixed voice ensemble under the direction of Lydia Walker, will begin this month.

Sleepy Creek Children's Choir