Hancock Little League and Clear Spring Little League faced off in the “West County Classic Championship” on Friday, July 31 at Kirkwood Park, following a two-round single elimination playoff. Hancock was the Host League, and pitted their Major League “Town Hill Auto Sale’s Nationals” against Clear Spring’s “Western Cary Building Products Orioles.” Both teams have […]

Barbara K. Howe 1917-2020 Barbara Kohman Howe, 103, of Berkeley Springs and formerly of Warfordsburg, Pa., died Friday, August 7, 2020 at the Berkeley Springs Center LLC, Berkeley Springs. Born July 6, 1917 in Indianapolis, Ind., she was the daughter of the late Edward Frederick and Marguerite Olive Villepigue Kohman. She was an active member […]

Irene J. Meyers 1948-2020 Irene Jean Bullett Meyers, 72, of Paw Paw, died Monday, August 3, 2020 at UPMC Western Maryland Regional Medical Center in Cumberland, Md. Born February 23, 1948 at Paw Paw, she was the daughter of the late James Bullett and Thelma Bullett Meade and the stepdaughter of the late Fred Meade. She […]

by KATE SHUNNEY Light blue chickory flowers are one of the sure signs of late summer. The tough-stemmed flower pops up along roadways, the edges of trails and spread through uncut fields. Anyone who has pulled on the chickory plant knows it won’t give up its ground very easily. And it doesn’t mind the dry, […]

by Jim Buzzerd Play ball? All we know about West Virginia University’s 2020 football season is that the Mountaineers will not play Florida State in Atlanta this month and the September date with Maryland in Morgantown has been nixed by the Big 10, of which Maryland is a member. The game with Florida State was […]

by Jamie Harris Last week the Tri-County Youth Football League (TCYFL) voted to cancel the fall football and cheer season. One of the programs effected by the TCYFL decision is the Warm Springs Wolves Football and Cheer programs. The Wolves program which features a number of youth football and cheerleaders from elementary to the middle […]

by GEOFF FOX There are approximately 21 active brownfield sites in Washington County, with Genuine Parts at 100 Rayloc Drive in Hancock being one of those sites. According to the state’s Brownfield Master Inventory (BMI) the ID number for the location is MD0350. A brownfield is defined as a real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or […]

West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced Monday a plan to put $50 million of federal CARES Act funding toward road projects that would improve resident access to medical facilities. The West Virginia Department of Transportation launched a new program to identify and fund the road projects, called Medical Access Road Projects (MARP). The MARP program […]

by KATE EVANS The summer heat can be brutal outdoors and indoors especially when you add high humidity into the mix.   Keep in mind the following information and tips so you and your family can stay cool and safe in extremely hot weather. Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials say that people 65 years […]

by GEOFF FOX A new ice cream shop has opened in Hancock just in time to help folks cool off in the summer heat. The Fractured Banana, owned by Tim Smith and Linda Smith, held their grand opening on August 1, dishing out close to 300 cones and that’s not counting cups or sundaes. The idea […]