Berkeley Springs High School and Warm Springs Middle School girls basketball teams will hold a free basketball clinic for girls in grades second through fifth  on Saturday, February 1. The clinic will consist of basic skills and drills that will be led by the BSHS Lady Indian coach Dale McCumbee and his  staff and players […]

by Jim Buzzerd Anyone’s game? Seems most West Virginia University fans would be pleased with the Mountaineers’ 16-3 record to begin the 2019-2020 season. That is especially true considering the team won only 15 games a season ago. The success so far has the Mountaineers projected to attain even more lofty status as the season […]

Department Begins New Survey of Mason-Dixon Line January 27, 2020 Effort To Document Remaining Original Markers from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources The Maryland Geological Survey, a unit of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, will lead professional surveying societies of Maryland and Pennsylvania in a new survey of monuments along the Mason-Dixon Line. […]

Pam Bergmann took this photo of the low water bridge over Sleepy Creek on Saturday, January 25. Rains on Friday made streams swell and rivers rise in the region. The low water bridge was closed to traffic until Monday morning, January 27.

by Kate Shunney Police have charged a man with kidnapping and wanton endangerment with a firearm after responding to a Great Cacapon residence late on Friday, January 24 and finding a woman being held against her will in a Hammond Street home. According to a criminal complaint filed in Morgan County Magistrate Court by Deputy […]

by Geoff Fox A resolution to amend Hancock’s zoning ordinance would create and define a Downtown District, encouraging the economic development of the historic downtown for retail, hospitality, services and tourism. The geographic boundaries of the proposed district would be between Church Street and the 522 Bridge over Main Street. It would also include parcels […]

by Kate Evans The Morgan County School Board held a special meeting on Monday, January 27 to consider the employment and evaluation of School Superintendent Kristen Tuttle. Board president Aaron Close said Monday morning that the school board is looking forward to offering Tuttle a longer contract as superintendent.  She was hired as an interim […]

George H. Sanchuk 1924-2020 George Harry Sanchuk, age 95, of Warfordsburg, Pa., passed away on Thursday, January 23, 2020, at his home. Born in Austria, April 28, 1924, he was the son of the late Dan and Anna (Gilete) Sanchuk; and the husband of Carol Jean (Reed) Sanchuk. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy; […]

Edgar Aubrey Varner 1929-2020 Edgar Aubrey Varner passed away at his home in Warfordsburg, Pa. on January 14, 2020. He was born June 11, 1929 in Hagerstown, Md. He was the son of the late Edgar William Varner and the late Edna Anna Petre Varner. He attended Hagerstown High School. He was a veteran of […]

Betty J. Bratton 1945-2020 Betty Jane Bratton, age 74, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Sunday, January 26, 2020 at The Berkeley Springs Center LLC. Born June 8, 1945 in Martinsburg, Pa., she was the daughter of the late William H. and Mabel Ruth Baker Cunningham. She was a member of Union Chapel United Methodist […]