by Kate Shunney Between last Friday and this Tuesday, December 22, four more Morgan County residents’ deaths have been attributed to the COVID-19 respiratory illness. The death county jumped from four county residents on Friday to eight on Sunday. West Virginia health officials report the deaths on a rolling basis, but have said there is […]

Hancock Lions and Lioness Club members filled to-go containers with a Christmas dinner at the Hancock American Legion on Saturday, December 19. Pictured are Faye Connelly, Toby McCarty, Jane Falkler, Jeannie Ward. Also serving are Scott Creek, Mike Navarra, Carmen Gordon and Dorothy Miller. For more than 25 years, the Hancock Lions club has served […]

Nova J. Rink 1918-2020 Nova Jean Rink, 102, of Great Cacapon, died Thursday, December 17, 2020 at Coffman Nursing Home in Hagerstown, Md. Born August 26, 1918 in Chalk Hill, Pa., near Uniontown, she was the daughter of the late Donald and Enca Myers Grover. She was a member of Chalk Hill United Methodist Church […]

Wesley Earl William Hiett 1930-2020 Wesley Earl William Hiett, 90, of Paw Paw, W.Va. died on Monday, December 14, 2020 at his home. Wesley was born on September 1, 1930 in Middletown, Va., the son of the late Grover C. and Alice Malone Hiett. He worked as a sawmiller most of his life, where he […]

Margaret Jane Bush Tweddell 1951-2020 Margaret Jane Bush Tweddell departed for her Heavenly Home on December 15, 2020. She had been fighting a valiant battle against multiple forms of cancer for several months before she gave in and went as peacefully as was possible to join her father and grandparents in that better place that […]

Mary J. Morton 1929-2020 Mary Jane Morton, 91, a resident of the Fulton County Medical Center Long Term Care Unit and formerly of Big Cove Tannery, Pa. died Monday, December 14, 2020 at Fulton County Medical Center, McConnellsburg, Pa. She was born in Ayr Township, Pa. on April 26, 1929, the daughter of the late […]

by KATE EVANS Morgan County’s public school students will remain in remote instruction through the rest of the calendar year, school officials told families this week. Students are in their fourth consecutive week of remote learning due to COVID-19 case numbers locally, and won’t return to classrooms for the remaining days of the 2020 fall […]

Morgan County Commissioners have chosen Bill Clark from among four candidates to fill a seat on the commission left empty by the resignation of Ken Reed earlier this month. Reed was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates in November and is already at work in that new position. Bill Clark. Clark worked for Morgan […]

Four Indians earn honorable mention by Jamie Harris The Class AA All-State football team was released last week and Berkeley Springs High School senior running back Peyton Thompson was named to the second team. P. Thompson finished with 94 rushes for 842 yards, six rushing touchdowns and five receptions for 51 yards. The Indians had […]

by Jim Buzzerd   COVID wins again The West Virginia University Football Team was forced to cancel the preciously postponed game with Oklahoma last Saturday. The November 28 game was postponed because of COVID issues within the Oklahoma program. Last Thursday it was announced that the game with Oklahoma would be cancelled. The statement read: […]