Jim Buzzerd Getting busy next week Fans of West Virginia University athletics will have a fine viewing schedule next week beginning on Thanksgiving Eve. That’s when the Mountaineer basketball team will kick off the season by taking on Texas A&M in the first game of the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic in Sioux Falls, South […]

by Jamie Harris Last week the Potomac Valley Conference released the Division 1 All-PVC volleyball team. Berkeley Springs junior standout Ally Morris was named to the 2020 volleyball team for the first time in her high school career. Morris who is a two-time Morgan Messenger and Hancock News All-Area Volleyball Player of the Year led […]

by Geoff Fox A Warfordsburg woman was killed in a crash on November 10 on Buck Valley Road in Warfordsburg. Police said at some point during the crash after dark, Bohrer was partially ejected through the passenger side window. She was not wearing a seatbelt, police said. According to Pennsylvania State Police, around 7:30 p.m. […]

by Geoff Fox The C&O Canal National Historical Park has announced the closure of the bridge over the canal in Hancock beginning on or about Thursday, November 19, to all traffic. Weather permitting, the construction is expected to continue for about four weeks. Work was originally scheduled to being in late September. The bridge itself […]

by KATE SHUNNEY Fulton County went from a designation of “low” community transmission of COVID-19 during the week of October 23 to its current “substantial” transmission rates, according to a Pennsylvania Department of Health report. Fulton County, which borders Washington County, Md. and nearly touches Morgan County, W.Va. has never had a “Moderate” transmission level designation […]

West Virginia’s buck firearms season opens next Monday, November 23. The season has been extended to 14 days and includes an additional Sunday this year. “The buck firearms season traditionally opens on the Monday before Thanksgiving and closes two weeks later on a Saturday, but hunters will be able to get out into the woods […]

A Saturday evening 911 call for a fight at a Morgan County apartment building has resulted in three people being charged for drug-related crimes. Police responded around 6 p.m. to the 6000 block of Valley Road to two emergency calls about a physical altercation. According to a criminal complaint filed in Morgan County Magistrate Court, […]

by Geoff Fox Jeffrey Spielman taught over 40 years in Washington County and was a long time coach at Hancock High School. His name is etched in the Panther’s basketball record books and hearts of former players. And now, his name will be forever more etched in Hancock Middle-Senior High School lore, as the gymnasium […]

Jack B. Wink 1937-2020 Jack B. Wink, 83, of Berkeley Springs, died Thursday, November 5, 2020 at Washington, D.C. Veterans Hospital. He was born in Needmore, Pa. on July 2, 1937, a son of the late Elizabeth Schooley and John Wink. He served in the U.S. Navy, was a member of the American Legion in Berkeley Springs and […]

Sherry Rosalie Trail 1948-2020 Sherry Rosalie Trail, age 72, of Hancock, Md., passed away on November 9, 2020 at her home, as a result of dementia. Born September 20, 1948, in Hagerstown, Md., she was the daughter of the late Jesse and Francis (Martin) Lesher. She attended St. Mary’s Catholic School and North Hagerstown High […]