Berkeley Springs High School 149 Concord Avenue, 304-258-2871, Thursday, August 16, 5 -7 p.m. – all grades. Freshman orientation is at 5 p.m. in the auditorium. Warm Springs Middle School, 271 Warm Springs Way,  304-258-1500, Thursday, August 16, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Warm Springs Intermediate, 575 Warm Springs Way, 304-258-0031, Open House, Thursday, August 16, 3:30-5 p.m. […]

by Jamie Harris Before current Berkeley Springs High School Athletic Hall of Famer’s Rachel Buser and Valerie Peer were dominating the cross country courses and tracks for the Lady Indians running programs, there was another female athlete who was a dominant runner back in the early 1990s. Karen Clark burst onto the running scene for […]

by Jim Buzzerd Camp begins Football practice began on the campus of West Virginia University last Friday, August 3 and there are some items of interest to mention here. Of course head coach Dana Holgorsen’s policy that extremely limits media access to practices is still in place, so what access the media has is basically […]

by Geoff Fox This Saturday, August 11, Hancock Helping Hands, a community outreach group, is celebrating their fifth anniversary of helping families in the Hancock area get ready for school. The outreach event will take place in Widmeyer Park, rain or shine, from 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. or while supplies last. “We are looking […]

by Kate Evans Greenwood United Methodist Church signed a contract of sale for Greenwood Elementary and its 5.74 acres and property with the Morgan County School Board before the July 31 school board meeting. The closing date for the property will occur at a later date. School officials said the agreement is a win-win situation […]

by Geoff Fox An early morning electrical fire caused some damage to home on Resley Road west of Hancock on Friday, August 3 around 12:30 a.m. According to Hancock Fire Chief Robert Hoopengardner the fire was in the attic above the bathroom closet in a light fixture. The attic, he said, had about six to […]

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged with first-degree sexual abuse for allegedly having sexual contact with a young child several years ago in Berkeley Springs. Robert J. Taylor, 32, of Warfordsburg was arrested on August 1 by Captain Tim Stapleton of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department on a warrant stemming from an investigation […]

by Kate Shunney A routine request for a grant resolution last week turned into a lengthy discussion about how Morgan County voters will cast their ballots in the future. County Clerk Kim Nickles requested a resolution from the County Commissioners on Wednesday, August 1 in support of a grant request from Help America Vote Act […]

Michael E. Spring 1956-2018 Michael Eugene Spring, 62, of Berkeley Springs, died Friday, August 3, 2018 at his home. Born April 6, 1956 in Morgan County, he was the son of the late Gladstone Eugene Spring and Barbara Jean Twigg Hovermale. He attended schools in Morgan County. He was a truck driver for Blue Flame, Inc., Miller Logging […]

James A. Jackson, Sr. 1957-2018 James Allen “Jim” Jackson, Sr., 60, of Great Cacapon, died Saturday, August 4, 2018 at War Memorial Hospital, Berkeley Springs. Born August 5, 1957 in Charles Town, he was the son of the late Charles Junior and Elva Frances Rickard Jackson. He had attended the Church of the Brethren. He graduated from West […]