A few thoughts by Jim Buzzerd A week ago, the topic here was the exodus of players, starting players, leaving the West Virginia University Basketball Team. Jalen Bridges and Isaiah Cottrell were the first two 2021-2022 to leave WVU via the transfer portal. The question then was who else was to follow? The suspicion was […]

by Geoff Fox A man from Indianapolis, Indiana, was killed early Saturday morning when the tractor-trailer he was driving overturned near Sandy Mile Road on Interstate 68. According to Maryland State Police, just after 5 a.m. on Saturday, March 26, Troopers from the Hagerstown Barack responded to a motor vehicle collision on westbound I-68 at […]

by Kate Evans The Morgan County School Board authorized School Superintendent Kristen Tuttle at their March 15 meeting to submit the Major Improvement Project (MIP) grant application for the Berkeley Springs High School Building D roof replacement to the West Virginia School Building Authority. The roof replacement project has a total estimated cost of $422,732 […]

by Geoff Fox Firefighters from around the area were called to a barn fire on Tuesday, March 22 on McKibbin Lane in the Buck Valley area of Fulton County.   According to Little Orleans Fire Chief John Clingerman, the call for the fire came in just before 6 a.m. that morning with firefighters there until […]

Hancock track and field athletes shined in field events during a regional invitational meet last Thursday, March 24. Ten teams brought their track and field competitors to Clear Spring High School for the Quinn Hoover Invitational, including Hancock, Berkeley Springs, Faith Christian, Clear Spring, Maryland School for the Deaf, North Garrett County, Roland Park Country, […]

by Trish Rudder Only one of the four interested contractors submitted a bid to work on the renovations inside the Berkeley Springs Train Depot. That bid was opened in a public meeting on March 3 at Town Hall by Town of Bath Recorder Susan Webster. Bath officials have since said they won’t announce the name […]

Clifford Paul Hackett Born 15 April, 1930 West Haven, Conn. Died 7 March, 2022 Washington, D.C. Cliff Hackett, resident of Berkeley Springs since 1980, died of natural causes on March 7th in Washington, D.C., surrounded by his loving family. Cliff was an Army veteran, former Foreign Service Officer, and Capitol Hill staffer before retiring and […]

Robert Harold Neuman 1939-2022 Robert Harold Neuman, age 82, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, W.Va. Born November 5, l939, he was the son of the late Otto and Bessie Mayfield Neuman. Robert was a graduate of Germantown High School, Germantown, Pa. He attended the […]

Kelley Ann Ballerstadt 1965-2022 Kelley Ann (Kesler) Ballerstadt, 56, of Oldtown, Md., went to her heavenly home on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. Born December 4, 1965 at Cumberland, she was the daughter of Tony Russell Kesler of Paw Paw and Ruth Ellen Fowler of Oldtown. She was a 1984 graduate of Paw Paw High School, […]

Susan E. Senger Bayliss 1970-2022 Susan E. Senger Bayliss, 81, of Winchester, Va., originally from Erie, Pa., passed away Thursday, March 17, 2022 at The Village at Orchard Ridge. She is the daughter of the late Bernard and Jean (Cooper) Senger. Susan graduated from the Benedictine Academy, Class of 1958, and moved to San Francisco, […]