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 […]

QB Race by Jim Buzzerd A couple weeks ago, I tossed out my thoughts on the race for the starting quarterback position for the 2022 West Virginia University football team. With little factual information to go on at the very beginning of spring practice, I had redshirt freshman Will Crowder in the lead with redshirt […]

The Herbert A. Young Scholarship fund is seeking donations for their annual scholarship that will be given to a senior member of the Hancock High School Band. Young was a long time band teacher at the school from 1965 until 1990. Herbert Young The scholarship was designed to honor the memory of Young’s 52-year career […]