by Kate Evans Morgan County resident Ron Wood, a licensed and insured electrician, opened his new electrician business RTW Electric, LLC at the beginning of February. Wood has more than 20 years’ experience as an electrician. He handles half residential and half commercial electrical jobs. Services Services that RTW Electric,[Read More…]
Local Lifestyle
It’s Stacy: Healthy Eats — Strawberries for Nutrition Month
Strawberry Spinach Salad Every month was National Nutrition Month for my Great Grandmother, Arizona Henry. She understood the importance of eating healthy while getting daily exercise. She enjoyed walking well into her nineties. March is National Nutrition Month, and it was created 50 years ago, in 1973. In celebration, I[Read More…]
Multiple headstones vandalized in Greenway
Last week Bath’ s Cemetery Corporation discovered that two headstones were likely recently vandalized in Greenway Cemetery. One belongs to the Barney family and the other to the Unger family. Each headstone is detached from its base. The Barney headstone fell from its base several years ago. Vandals tried to[Read More…]
It’s Stacy: Healthy Eats –Chunky Asparagus Soup
Chunky Asparagus Soup My great-grandmother, Arizona Henry, always told me that the only downside to eating asparagus is that your pee smells like a skunk spray for hours after you eat it. The smell will make you think you have an infection. But no worries, asparagus is nontoxic. This smell[Read More…]
It’s Stacy: Healthy Eats — Apple Bundt Cake
Apple Bundt Cake My Great Grandmother, Arizona Henry, knew what to do with those old mealy apples stored in our root cellar. She would bake several apple bundt cakes to share with the neighbors. She liked hers with caramel glaze. Apples become mealy about this time of year. Mealy apples[Read More…]
Italy, Bosnia & Taiwan take top bottled water awards at 2023 Water Tasting
Judges for the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting awarded top honors to waters from around the world on Saturday, February 25 during an award ceremony at The Country Inn. The ceremony closed the 33rd annual festival, which was a two-day event in Berkeley Springs. Five continents had waters among the[Read More…]
It’s Stacy: Healthy Eats — Potato, corn & ham soup
Potato, Corn, and Ham Soup My Great Grandmother, Arizona Henry, would use potatoes from the root cellar to make different kinds of potato soups. My favorite was the one she made with corn and ham. We spent many hot summer days shucking and cutting corn off the cob, putting it[Read More…]
Hancock Arts Council to host Free Variety Show Sunday, February 26
The Hancock Arts Council is hosting a free entertainment show at the Hancock Town Hall on Sunday, February 26. The event is open to the public and begins at 2 p.m. A wide range of acts will be performing, including: belly dancers, marimba, singing cats, Celtic fiddle w/bagpipes, The Ukeclectric[Read More…]
George Washington: A Young Man Makes His Way
Editor’s note: The late John Douglas, who was editor of The Morgan Messenger for 38 years, was a local expert on George Washington’s movements through this area as a young surveyor and later as he established himself as a colonial leader. John’s articles in The Messenger about the subject were[Read More…]
Student and family strive to raise awareness about rare genetic disease
by Kate Evans Berkeley Springs High School senior Rachel Nuckles has struggled with the challenges of living with what doctors thought was cerebral palsy since she was around age one. When two neurologists weren’t sure that was her correct diagnosis, Nuckles had genetic testing done in 2021 that indicated she[Read More…]
