Amanda E. Edwards 1987-2020 Amanda Elaine “Lil Tubba” Edwards, age 33, of Hancock, Md., died on Friday, December 25, 2020 in Eureka, Calif. Born September 11, 1987 at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pa., she was the daughter of George Allen Edwards of Springfield, W.Va. and Elaine Bishop Cochran of Hancock, Md. […]

Teresa Sullivan Teresa Sullivan, a resident of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died unexpectedly on January 6, 2021 at the age of 39. Teresa enjoyed exploring and visiting local coffee shops. Her true happiness was being in Florida carefree and dreaming of the future with her children. Teresa was a very loving, soft spoken and a trustworthy […]

Blended schedule set to run through Feb. 22 by KATE EVANS Morgan County School officials on Thursday approved a new plan to return local students to classrooms on a rotating two-day schedule starting next Tuesday, January 19. The decision was made at a January 14 emergency evening meeting which over 60 people attended, most of […]

  by Kate Evans     The Morgan County School Board will hold an emergency meeting this evening, Thursday January 14, at 6:00 p.m. at the school board office due to the West Virginia Board of Education’s vote to remove the county option of having full remote learning. People can also attend the emergency meeting via […]

by Jim Buzzerd Things I think I think the West Virginia University Basketball Team is going to fall short of the lofty expectations that so many had for them before the season began. On Saturday the Mountaineers snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in a 72-70 loss to fourth ranked Texas in Morgantown. West […]

by Kate Evans Berkeley Springs High School and Paw Paw High School along with other high schools across West Virginia will be receiving funds to support extracurricular programs that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Berkeley Springs High School will receive $32,600 and Paw Paw High School will get $2,500 from the Extracurricular Equity […]

The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park celebrated its 50th Anniversary last Friday, January 8. The park was established on that date in 1971. The towpath stretches from Cumberland to Georgetown, a length of roughly 184.5 miles. President John Quincy Adams turned the first shovelful of dirt to start construction of the canal on […]

by Geoff Fox In December 2019, the town held a small ribbon cutting on two electric car-charging stations in the Rail Trail parking lot. The past week, three more stations became fully operational in the parking lot for Joseph Hancock Park and the town’s municipal parking lot on Canal Street. Town Manager Joe Gilbert said […]

On Saturday, January 23, Main Street Hancock will be sponsoring a free mask and hand sanitizer giveaway in the Town Hall parking lot. Anyone wanting the mask and sanitizer should be at Town Hall between 9 a.m. 11 a.m. for a drive-by pickup. The giveaway is on a first come, first served basis and is […]

by KATE EVANS The Morgan County School Board is considering a blended classroom schedule and possible action on the school recovery plan, adopting a local COVID leave policy for work exposure and requiring pre-kindergarten through second grade students to wear face masks. At the January 5 school board meeting, two teachers expressed their concerns about […]