by GEOFF FOX Police are investigating a stabbing at a Hancock gas station that sent one man to Meritus Medical Center early Sunday morning. Around 12:30 a.m. on August 19, Hancock police were alerted to the AC&T at 260 East Main Street for a subject who was bleeding. When police arrived, they found Wes Barrett, […]

Melody Stotler, Life or Drugs, Tri-State Support executive director and Morgan County Partnership program coordinator, speaks at a August 16 Paw Paw community forum on drugs and addiction at the Paw Paw Public Library. by KATE EVANS A community forum at the Paw Paw Public Library last Thursday focused on the dangers of prescription drugs, […]

The Morgan County Multidisciplinary Investigative Team will be hosting a free training for church leaders on September 8 on the topic of child victimization and community leaders’ response to the issue. Safe Haven Child Advocacy Center, Shenandoah Women’s Center, the Morgan County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office and West Virginia State Police will lead the event, which […]

The driver who led Hancock police on a chase down I-70 and across the Hancock bridge in April has been extradited to West Virginia to face charges there. Christopher McCauley, 23, of Berkeley Springs was charged on Thursday, August 16 in Morgan County Magistrate Court with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, […]

by KATE EVANS Warm Springs Middle School students and staff were evacuated from the school for around 45 minutes this afternoon after a faulty smoke alarm went off in the ceiling tile between the walls of the band room and the faculty room, said middle school Principal Gene Brock. The alarm was tripped at 12:48 […]

Dale L. Kipp, Jr. 1938-2018 Dale Loyd Kipp, Jr., age 80, of Hanover, Md., and Great Cacapon, W.Va., passed away on Saturday, August 18, 2018, peacefully at his home while under the care of Hospice of the Panhandle. Born May 29, 1938 in Apollo, Pa., he was the son of the late Dale Loyd, Sr. […]

Alfred W. Deneen 1934-2018 Alfred Wayne Deneen, age 83, of Warfordsburg, Pa., passed away on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at the Berkeley Springs Nursing Center, in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. Born December 22, 1934, in Amaranth, Pa., he was the son of the late John Milton and Alverta Jane (Miller) Deneen, and the husband of Joyce […]

Helen J. Younker 1929-2018 Helen Jane Younker, age 88, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Sunday, August 19, 2018 at her home while under the care of Hospice of the Panhandle. Born October 28, 1929 in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late William Harold and Gladys Mae Beeler Eppinger. She was […]

Diane M. Bennett 1959-2018 Diane Marie “Rusty” Bennett, 58, of Great Cacapon, died Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at War Memorial Hospital, Berkeley Springs. Born December 31, 1959 in Everett, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Homer Carmen and Lois Hagenbuch Bennett. She was of the Catholic faith. She was a 1978 graduate of Bedford […]

Lynne A. Richards 1944-2018 Lynne Ann Richards, age 74, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died peacefully in her home on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 while under the care of Hospice of the Panhandle. Born May 19, 1944 in Hyattsville, Md., she was the daughter of the late Chester Shinn Bailey and Viola Hilda Miller Bailey. She […]