by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs High School Tennis Teams competed in the 2022 Region I Tennis Championships last Wednesday and Thursday, May 4 and 5. The Tribe were looking for individual and doubles titles along with team titles and also trying to qualify as many players as they could for the Class A/AA State […]
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War Memorial marks 10 years on Healthy Way
by Lisa Schauer Staff members at War Memorial Hospital gathered recently to celebrate the facility’s tenth anniversary. Located about a mile and half from the original hospital, which opened as The Pines in 1934, the modern War Memorial Hospital opened at 1 Healthy Way in Berkeley Springs on April 28, 2012. “I remember just a […]
Medical cannabis company adds West Virginia dispensaries to holdings
by Kate Shunney Trulieve, the medical cannabis company that recently acquired the Harvest cannabis operation in Hancock, has added a West Virginia cannabis dispensary business to their holdings. Trulieve acquired Greenhouse Wellness West Virginia Dispensaries, LLC. The company now has permits to open 10 dispensaries across West Virginia. Trulieve currently has two operating medical cannabis […]
Public hearing set for $34.7 million school budget
by Kate Evans The Morgan County School Board approved their proposed Fiscal Year 2023 total budget of $34,752,708 for publication at their May 3 meeting. School Treasurer Ann Bell gave her budget presentation at the meeting before the school board’s vote. The proposed total budget revenue consists of an estimated general current expense fund of […]
Berkeley Springs crowns six PVC Track and Field Champions Kasekamp and Tanouye double
by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs High School Track and Field Team headed to Keyser for the 2022 PVC Division 1 (big school) Championships last Wednesday, May 4 which happens to be Star Wars meme day of “May the fourth be with you.” Berkeley Springs had the force with them as the Tribe crowned six […]
Hancock High to get new principal as Ruppenthal replaces Mulledy
by Geoff Fox For the fourth time since 2017, Hancock Middle-Senior High School will be led by a new principal when school starts on Monday, August 29. During their May 3 meeting, Washington County Public Schools officials approved 33 staff changes throughout the system. Two are related to Hancock. School board members approved the transfer […]
Rain dampens start of holiday weekend
Two days of relentless rain last Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7 made for a soggy prom and Mother’s Day weekend locally, with some county residents also hit by an extended power outage on Saturday. Power cuts in the western portions of Morgan County left more than 1,000 homes without power from around 8 […]
Clark takes tight GOP commission race, special school levy passes narrowly
Bill Clark. Editor’s note: This story was update on May 11 to include district-wide preliminary vote totals in some races. —————————————— Morgan County Commissioner Bill Clark is the apparent winner of a Republican primary race for the Morgan County Commission. Clark, who served more than a year as an appointed commissioner, beat out political newcomer […]
Multicultural Night and concert at Hancock High School
The Hancock Middle-Senior High School Unified and Related Arts Departments are presenting a Multicultural Night and World Music Concert tomorrow night, Thursday, May 12, at 6:30 p.m. The program consists of world music presented by the middle and high school bands under the direction of Susan Mott, a street art exhibit presented by the Spanish […]
William Edward Holland
William Edward Holland 1954-2022 William Edward Holland, 68, of Hagerstown, Md., passed away, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at his home. Born Wednesday, April 21, 1954 in Stuttgart, Germany he was the son of the late SFC William Maryland Holland and the late Katherine Erma Lee (Socks) Holland. Ed graduated from Hancock High School in 1972. […]




