After qualifying at regionals, the Berkeley Springs High School Quiz Bowl team traveled to Charleston on Wednesday, April 30 to compete in the West Virginia Academic Showdown State Championship. The tournament features the top two academic teams of 47 teams in each of the state’s eight regions. In their first[Read More…]
School News
Widmyer aide Billie Jo Smith gets First Year Service Personnel Award
by Kate Evans Widmyer Elementary aide Billie Jo Smith was given the First Year Service Personnel Award at the April 1 Morgan County School Board meeting. Smith is working on becoming an Early Childhood Classroom Assistant Teacher. Smith went to college at Potomac State University after high school and transferred[Read More…]
Swink, Johnson and Lucas are county’s 2025 Golden Horseshoe winners
Corali Johnson, Joshua Lucas and Payton Swink have been named as Morgan County’s three Golden Horseshoe winners for 2025. All three students are eighth graders at Warm Springs Middle School and students of Mrs. Gates. The prestigious Golden Horseshoe award recognizes state students that excel in West Virginia history and[Read More…]
Ritenour chosen for county’s first-year teacher award
by Kate Evans Paw Paw Schools special education teacher Rhiannon Ritenour was selected for the Mary Linn Fox Memorial Award for First Year Teacher at the April 1 Morgan County School Board meeting. Ritenour is a teacher for special education multi-categorical students. Ritenour attended Frostburg State University from 2014-2018 and[Read More…]
School board reappoints Ann Bell as Treasurer, considers and approves policies
by Kate Evans Ann Bell was unanimously appointed Treasurer of the Morgan County Board of Education for the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 at the April 1 school board meeting, pursuant to the Morgan County School Board Policy 1310 and West Virginia Code 18-9-6. Bell has served as Treasurer of Morgan County[Read More…]
Warm Springs Middle School honored for manufacturing ed efforts & student video
“Explore the New Manufacturing” group made a surprise award presentation to Warm Springs Middle School at the organization’s Eastern Regional Awards Ceremony late last month. Jamie Harris, the Warm Springs principal, accepted the 2025 Outstanding Industry Educator Award on behalf of the school. The award celebrates skilled and dedicated educators[Read More…]
School board keeps levy at same rate for new tax year
The Morgan County Board of Education voted to keep the school levy at its existing rate for the upcoming tax year. Morgan Couny taxpayers pay a school levy rate of 38.8 cents per $100 of valuation on their property and a school excess levy rate of 32.16 cents per $100[Read More…]
Bus driver Stephen McDoniel is the school Service Personnel of the Year
by Kate Evans Morgan County school bus driver Stephen McDoniel was chosen as the Service Personnel of the Year at the April 1 school board meeting. McDoniel said that it’s his second full year as a Morgan County Schools bus driver. He started as a substitute driver. McDoniel retired from[Read More…]
Berkeley Springs High School captures second place in the State Chess Championship
The 55th Annual WV Scholastic Chess Championship took place on March 15 in Charleston, on the campus of West Virginia State University. Berkeley Springs High School fielded nine players, divided into two teams: BSHS A Elizabeth Kessel Malcolm L Johns Joseph Guzman-Robles Brody Gloyd Rylee David Sauter BSHS B William[Read More…]
Widmyer teacher Kimberly Pindell is Morgan County Teacher of the Year
by Kate Evans Widmyer Elementary second grade teacher Kimberly Pindell was chosen as the Morgan County Teacher of the Year at the April 1 Morgan County School Board meeting. Pindell said she’s been teaching for seven years, six of those in Morgan County. Immediately after college, she began teaching in[Read More…]
