Chief Deputy Johnnie Walter talks with a West Virginia Medical Examiner while Capt. Tim Stapleton and Sheriff K.C. Bohrer stand by on Thursday. A West Virginia medical examiner joined officers with the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department this morning at the site where human remains were located yesterday by mushroom hunters. Those remains have been removed […]

Update 5/5/22: Sheriff Bohrer said police believe the remains are those of a man who went missing in the Highland Ridge area in 2018. See the full story here: https://www.morganmessenger.com/2022/05/05/police-believe-remains-are-those-of-man-missing-since-2018/ ————————————————————– Morgan County Sheriff K.C. Bohrer has said law enforcement officers have secured a site containing potential human remains off Highland Ridge Road in eastern Morgan […]

Speculation by Jim Buzzerd Last week I turned this space into a rant on how I believe the NCAA’s Name Image Likeness legislation, if left in its current state, will destroy college football and basketball as we have known it. I did not comment on the West Virginia University football team’s Gold-Blue game that was […]

by Geoff Fox A landmark restaurant in Hancock sold last week at auction to a man who already has a successful restaurant in Hancock. Park N Dine was sold for $500,000 to Ben Lewis. Lewis owns Potomac River Grill on the 522 Bridge as well as Ben Lewis Plumbing in Clarksburg, Md. The bid was […]

by Kate Evans Warm Springs Middle School eighth graders Landon Litten, Camden Spade, and Adam O’Brien are the three 2022 Morgan County winners of the Golden Horseshoe Award. The prestigious Golden Horseshoe award recognizes state students that excel in West Virginia history and culture and is given to the top-scoring eighth grade students on the […]

by Kate Shunney As West Virginia’s primary election takes place on Tuesday, May 10, fewer Morgan County residents will be seeking out a ballot. A state report of voter registration figures from the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office indicates that as of the end of March, Morgan County’s voter registration stood at 12,454 voters. […]

by Kate Evans Morgan County Schools summer programs return this year with a variety of remediation and enrichment activities and fun for kindergarten through twelfth grade students. Summer programs include Camp MoCo at Warm Springs Intermediate School, Camp Alpha at Warm Springs Middle School and credit recovery at Berkeley Springs High School and Paw Paw […]

Tyler Barney named Most Outstanding Player Gavin Barkley and Nathan Guzick named to All-Tournament Team by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs High School Indians Varsity Baseball Team hosted the Ron Clatterbuck Baseball Invitational tournament at Morgan Field Saturday, April 30. The invitational featured Berkeley Springs, East Hardy, Grace Academy and Legacy Christian Academy. In game […]

by Kate Shunney Morgan County voters who haven’t cast a ballot during the 10 days of early voting in West Virginia’s primary election will have a chance to go to the polls in the county’s 13 precincts next Tuesday. County Clerk Kim Nickles said 62 ballots were marked during the first day of early voting […]

A Monday evening brush fire reportedly burned around six acres in the Doe Gully area and brought fire units from around the region to contain the blaze in a remote location along Low Line Road. Doe Gully is located west of Great Cacapon. On Tuesday, fire crews were called back out to the area to […]