The annual Morgan Arts Council Youth Art Month gallery show, featuring art from young people around Morgan County, is hanging at the Ice House in downtown Berkeley Springs now through April 8. Drawings, paintings, collages, metal and pottery work were chosen from students at seven county schools and home schools to be put on display. […]

The Morgan County School Board recently completed its annual evaluation of Morgan County Schools Interim Superintendent Erich May and released the following statement on February 19: “Board/Superintendent goals for the current school year were established on September 15, 2017.  Goals included sustaining graduation rates over 90%, improving math achievement, increasing community communication, increasing school system […]

by Jamie Harris The Paw Paw Pirates made the trip to Clarksburg for the Class A Region II Championship game last Wednesday, March 7. The Pirates faced the defending Class A State Champions Notre Dame. Paw Paw was looking to steal an upset win over the Irish and punch their ticket to the Class A […]

by Jamie Harris Going into last Thursday night’s Class AA Region I Championship game the Berkeley Springs High School Indians knew they had a daunting task in front of them. In order for the Tribe to advance to the Class AA State Championship tournament Berkeley Springs would need to pull off the upset of the […]

West Virginia Assistant Fire Marshal George Harms has ruled the cause of last Monday’s commercial building fire to be accidental. Harms said the March 5 fire that gutted the historic Berkeley Club bottling plant started when gasoline came into contact with a heater on the premises. Occupants in a garage bay of the building were […]

Two people removed an unresponsive driver from his crashed SUV last Thursday just before the vehicle caught fire, police officials said. Lt. Seth Place of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department investigated the March 8 single-vehicle crash, which happened in the 3000 block of Martinsburg Road. According to Lt. Place, the driver – Gary W. Mellott, […]

by GEOFF FOX Hancock residents could be able to check out books from the new library in Widmeyer Park sometime this fall, if construction continues on schedule. Brittany Higgins, Public Relations Coordinator for Washington County, said there haven’t been any delays or issues holding up the construction of the library so far. The project is […]

by KATE SHUNNEY The West Virginia Division of Highways inspects 57 bridges in Morgan County for safety and stability. Of those, six are currently listed on a state Category 6 Major Bridge Replacement list, according to DOH bridge officials. Sarah Kessel, bridge design official with DOH’s District 5, said “Category 6 Major” is a classification […]

by KATE SHUNNEY The Morgan County Assessor has released an annual Certificate of Valuation for county property that shows a half-percent drop in value for the 2018 assessment year. The Morgan County Commission uses the annual assessor’s valuation figures to prepare their fiscal year budget. County officials have met multiple times in the last two […]

UPDATED March 15, 10:40 a.m. The Morgan County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that their investigation into the  death of a Virginia man on Tuesday, March 13 leads them to believe the man died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.  His body was discovered Tuesday evening in a vehicle in Great Cacapon. The man was identified […]