Tennis Senior Spotlight Makayla Keenan by Jamie Harris One of those athletes affected by the end of the 2020 tennis season was Berkeley Springs High School senior Makayla Keenan. Keenan was entering her first season playing tennis for the Lady Indians. Keenan was also a four year letterman in varsity volleyball while playing the sport […]

by GEOFF FOX When the Town of Hancock and medical cannabis grower and producer Harvest, Inc. entered into an agreement for the company to use the Stanley E. Fulton Complex to grow their crops in 2015, the company promised the town would benefit financially from the arrangement. Now, five years later, questions about the equity from […]

According to preliminary data, West Virginia hunters harvested 11,314 birds during the spring turkey season, a slight increase over the 2019 harvest of 11,215. The 2020 spring turkey harvest is close to the five-year average of 11,344 and 9 percent above the 10-year average. “We had a good harvest this year thanks to a great […]

At Governor Hogan’s most recent press conference, the announcement was made that effective at 5 p.m. on Friday, June 12, the State of Maryland would allow for additional reopenings as part of Stage Two of the Maryland Strong: Roadmap to Recovery. The Governor also mentioned more openings scheduled for Friday, June 19. The Washington County […]

by Kate Evans The West Virginia Department of Education (WVDE) released its COVID-19 Re-entry to Recovery guidelines with several possible fall back-to-school scenarios after a June 10 state Department of Education meeting. State officials also posed other considerations for schools to think about. Possible scenarios In the first school re-entry scenario called Safer at School/Safer […]

by KATE SHUNNEY Staff from the Morgan County Clerk’s office canvass the votes from Precinct 13 on Monday, June 15 as County Commissioners Ken Reed and Sean Forney watch. Morgan County’s election returns were still incomplete after a day of canvassing, precinct voting, 10 days of early voting and more than a month of voting by […]

by Kate Evans Several separate efforts to encourage gardening and healthy eating in Morgan County have put down roots and grown with a wider community vision this spring. Local agencies and students have joined together to work with families and young people to teach the strategies, benefits and joys of gardening. They started with seeds […]

A Bloomery, W.Va. man with Morgan County ties has died as a result of an ATV accident here today, Tuesday, June 16. Ralph D. Barnes, 60, was on property he owns on Spook Hollow Lane off of Ruppenthal Road and was operating an ATV there this morning when the vehicle apparently tipped on steep terrain and rolled onto […]

The Bicentennial Lecture on Civil War activities on Morgan County is the first in the series that will be available to a live audience. Steve French delivers the lecture on Saturday, June 20 at 11 a.m. at the Star Theatre. As with the first two lectures, this will also be live streamed and made into […]

Ellen B. Norris 1924-2020 Ellen Belle Norris, 95, of Hancock, died Friday, May 29, 2020 at War Memorial Hospital, Berkeley Springs. Born June 4, 1924 in Berkeley Springs, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Irene May Buckner Payne and the widow of John William Norris, Sr. She attended Grace Christian Fellowship Church, Hancock. She is survived by three […]