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, […]

Mary Ellamae Houston 1940-2022 Mary Ellamae Houston, age 81, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at E.W. Hawse Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Baker, W.Va. Born May 30, 1940 in Morgan County, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Charles Edwin and Anna Marie Stotler Heironimus. She was of the […]

Dorothy Jane Brown Kerns 1928-2022 Dorothy “Dot” Jane Brown Kerns, age 93, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., passed away with her family by her side on Thursday, March 24, 2022 at the Stonerise Berkeley Springs Center. Born July 10, 1928 in Cumberland, Md., she was the daughter of the late Raymond Harry and Lillian Arbutus Miller […]

Donald Hessler 1930-2022 Donald “Tex” Hessler, 91, of Cherry Run, W.Va., went home to be with Jesus on Friday, March 25, 2022, at War Memorial Hospital Extended Care Unit after more than a decade of battling Alzheimer’s. Tex was born on August 13, 1930, at home where he was raised and later raised his own […]

Christina Louise Stone 1964-2022 Christina Louise Stone, age 58, of Hedgesville, W.Va., died on Friday, March 26, 2022 at her mother’s home. Born March 21, 1964 in Fairfax, Va., she was the daughter of Judith Elaine Munson Michael of Berkeley Springs and the late Reed Carroll Michael. She was a member of Highland United Methodist […]