by Kate Shunney Trulieve, the medical cannabis company that recently acquired the Harvest cannabis operation in Hancock, has added a West Virginia cannabis dispensary business to their holdings. Trulieve acquired Greenhouse Wellness West Virginia Dispensaries, LLC. The company now has permits to open 10 dispensaries across West Virginia. Trulieve currently has two operating medical cannabis […]

by Kate Evans The Morgan County School Board approved their proposed Fiscal Year 2023 total budget of $34,752,708 for publication at their May 3 meeting.  School Treasurer Ann Bell gave her budget presentation at the meeting before the school board’s vote. The proposed total budget revenue consists of an estimated general current expense fund of […]

by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs High School Track and Field Team headed to Keyser for the 2022 PVC Division 1 (big school) Championships last Wednesday, May 4 which happens to be Star Wars meme day of “May the fourth be with you.” Berkeley Springs had the force with them as the Tribe crowned six […]

by Geoff Fox For the fourth time since 2017, Hancock Middle-Senior High School will be led by a new principal when school starts on Monday, August 29. During their May 3 meeting, Washington County Public Schools officials approved 33 staff changes throughout the system. Two are related to Hancock. School board members approved the transfer […]

Two days of relentless rain last Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 made for a soggy prom and Mother’s Day weekend locally, with some county residents also hit by an extended power outage on Saturday. Power cuts in the western portions of Morgan County left more than 1,000 homes without power from around 8 […]

Bill Clark. Editor’s note: This story was update on May 11 to include district-wide preliminary vote totals in some races. —————————————— Morgan County Commissioner Bill Clark is the apparent winner of a Republican primary race for the Morgan County Commission. Clark, who served more than a year as an appointed commissioner, beat out political newcomer […]

The Hancock Middle-Senior High School Unified and Related Arts Departments are presenting a Multicultural Night and World Music Concert tomorrow night, Thursday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. The program consists of world music presented by the middle and high school bands under the direction of Susan Mott, a street art exhibit presented by the Spanish […]

William Edward Holland 1954-2022 William Edward Holland, 68, of Hagerstown, Md., passed away, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at his home. Born Wednesday, April 21, 1954 in Stuttgart, Germany he was the son of the late SFC William Maryland Holland and the late Katherine Erma Lee (Socks) Holland. Ed graduated from Hancock High School in 1972. […]

Ruth Marie Bowers 1952-2022 Ruth Marie Bowers, 69, of Winchester, Va., formerly of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died Wednesday, May 4, 2022 at Blue Ridge Hospice of Winchester, Va. Born in Morgan County, W.Va., August 13, 1952, she was the daughter of the late Clifton and Glenna Bowers. Ruth was a graduate of James Wood High School […]

Sharon Palmeri 1945-2022 Sharon Palmeri, 77, of Great Cacapon, W.Va., passed at her home on April 25, 2022. Born April 5, 1945 in Baltimore, Md., she was the daughter of Richard and Betty Corbin. Sharon was a member of the St. Peter’s Catholic Church. She was a realtor her whole life. She enjoyed reading books […]