My Apple Sauce for Apple Butter Week My Great Grandmother Arizona Henry loved the Apple Butter Festival. Every year we had our Annual Apple Butter meal with family from out of town. We would walk around the festival all day and then come home to a feast. We called this[Read More…]
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47th Apple Butter Festival returns with new attractions
One of the largest and longest running fall festivals in West Virginia, the 47th annual Apple Butter Festival in historic Berkeley Springs, is making its triumphant return. The festival is this Saturday and Sunday, October 8 and 9, and is a family tradition for tens of thousands of folks every[Read More…]
County pursues grant to buy 75 new voting machines
by Kate Shunney The Morgan County Clerk’s office is applying for a federal grant to buy 75 new voting machines for county elections. Last Tuesday, September 27, the Morgan County Commission approved a resolution allowing Clerk Kim Nickles to make the application for funds from the Help America Vote Act[Read More…]
Water Works awaiting waiver for operator deficiency
by Trish Rudder The Berkeley Springs Water Works (BSWW), the town-owned water department, sent a public announcement notice to all its customers to let them know the West Virginia Health Department found the plant to be in violation of a state drinking water requirement. The “Operator Deficiency” violation was found[Read More…]
Community newspaper reporting and content have never been more relevant
Brett Wesner, Chair National Newspaper Association Newspaper reporting and content have never been more relevant. We all have stories of readers desperately seeking reliable information about COVID-19 during the pandemic and turning to us to deliver accurate national and state health departments’ evolving assessments as well as local reporting on[Read More…]
U.S. Senators Manchin and Capito announced $5,764,995 from the Appalachian Regional Commission for three projects across West Virginia
WV Press Release Sharing CHARLESTON, W.Va. – U.S. Senators Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $5,764,995 from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) for three projects across West Virginia. The funding will support expanding essential water service in Clay County, conducting a[Read More…]
Teen’s mental health project creates high school dance & movement room
by Kate Evans Jillian Fortney, Berkeley Springs High School junior, has created a dance and focused movement room at Berkeley Springs High School for her Girl Scout Gold Award “Moving for Teen Mental Health” project. Fortney is also spreading information about teen mental health and ways for teens to cope[Read More…]
Berkeley Springs post office front damaged in accident
An accidental collision between a Ford Escape and the front of the Berkeley Springs post office last Thursday has caused structural damage to the front door area but didn’t result in any injuries. Deputy Tony Link of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department said a local resident in her mid-70s went[Read More…]
Man jailed for violating sex offender conditions of parole
West Virginia State Police troopers have jailed a Berkeley Springs man on charges that he violated the requirements of his sec offender registry here. According to a criminal complaint filed in Morgan County Magistrate Court, Roy Rankin Jr., 36, of Rankin Lane was arrested on a warrant issued September 22[Read More…]
Carrie Holloway is new Berkeley Springs High Assistant Principal
by Kate Evans Carrie Holloway was hired as a new Berkeley Springs High School Assistant Principal at the September 6 Morgan County School Board meeting. High school Assistant Principal Kevin Pittsnogle recently resigned. Holloway’s effective start date for her position hasn’t been determined yet. Holloway joins Berkeley Springs High School[Read More…]
