by Kate Evans As the beginning of spring turns minds to planting and gardening, Morgan County students are learning the joy of working with their hands, planting tiny seeds in soil and watching little green seedlings grow in several county school greenhouses. Intermediate school Amie Tutor, West Virginia University Extension Youth Health Educator, uses the […]

Young ball players from Paw Paw will spend more time on the field this spring, playing both at home and on the road as part of the Hampshire County Little League. Paw Paw has two teams this spring – a tee ball group and a coach-pitch, or coach ball, team.  Team play will be split […]

The Morgan Messenger and American Legion Post 60 will again co-host a Meet the Candidates forum this Sunday, April 24 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Legion hall in Berkeley Springs. The hall is located at 527 North Washington Street. All candidates who filed for local office and are on the May 10 […]

My Egg Custard Pie We always seemed to have an abundance of milk and eggs in our refrigerator when I was a kid. To use up the leftover milk and eggs, my Great Grandmother Arizona Henry would make an egg custard pie. My grandma, on occasion, would change this recipe by adding coconut or exchanging […]

BlackCat Music Cooperative is hosting a community music performance at the MAC Ice House outdoor stage on Saturday, April 23 at 4 p.m. The theme is “Here Comes The Sun”  and will feature multiple performers, from ages 8 to 80, singing and strumming some of your favorite songs as well as an original or two. Welcome […]

Patricia Lee Smith 1960-2022 Patricia “Patty” Lee Smith, 62, formerly of Great Cacapon, W.Va., passed away on March 3, 2022 at Dawn View Nursing Home in Fort Ashby, W.Va. Born February 1, 1960 in West Palm Beach, Fla., she was the daughter of the late Richard Marshall and Nancy Tavenner. She was preceded in death […]

Mary Virginia Banks Nichols 1925-2022 Mary Virginia Banks Nichols passed peacefully into eternal life on April 12, 2022, at the age of 96. She was a long-time resident of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Born on June 30, 1925, in Hagerstown, Maryland, Mary was raised in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, the daughter of Washington Grove Banks […]

Betty Jean Whiteside 1939-2022 Betty Jean (Everitt) Whiteside, 82, of Warfordsburg, Pa., passed away on April 17, 2022, at the War Memorial Hospital, in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. Born July 14, 1939, in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Wilbur Benjamin Everitt and Maxine Lillie Hoopengardner Everitt. She was a graduate of […]

Paul V. Pentoney Paul Vernon Pentoney, age 87, formerly of Berkeley Springs, died on Thursday, April 13, 2022 at Greenbrier Health Care Center in Lewisburg. Arrangements will be announced by Helsley-Johnson Funeral Home & Cremation Center, 95 Union Street, Berkeley Springs.

Staff at Hancock Middle-Senior High School on Tuesday confirmed they were aware of a threat made against their school and students on social media, and had reported that threat to the appropriate law enforcement and school agencies. Numerous Washington County Sheriff’s Department patrol vehicles were seen parked in spots at the front of the school […]