Yay! by Jim Buzzerd The West Virginia University Men’s Basketball Team ended its second seven game losing streak of the season with a 70-64 win over TCU last Saturday in the Coliseum. The Mountaineers were locked into last place in the Big 12 regardless of the result of the game, and due to Oklahoma State […]

by Geoff Fox As COVID numbers continue to improve, Meritus Health has eased visitor restrictions by moving to Green visitation status. The change went into effect last week. The Green visitation status allows visitors for adult and pediatric inpatients 27/7 at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown and at Meritus Health’s outpatient services and practices, surgery […]

Lowest virus count in more than a year by Kate Evans The number of COVID-19 cases in Morgan County has decreased dramatically since the beginning of February. As of Monday, just four county residents had reported active COVID cases. The county had been at the high COVID transmission level for many months. As of Monday, […]

Fire investigators, including agents from the State Fire Marshal’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, were not able to determine a cause behind the February 26 at the West Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind. That early morning fire totally gutted the former Administration Building on the campus of the […]

by Geoff Fox After two years of being closed for public use, Interfaith Service Coalition will be reopening Martha’s House on Monday, March 14. Martha’s House, located at 47-49 West Main Street, takes its name from Martha of Bethany in the New Testament of the Bible who, along with her siblings, was friends with Jesus […]

by Kate Evans School Treasurer Ann Bell’s mid-year financial review presentation at the March 1 Morgan County School Board showed increases in tax revenue, salaries and benefits and supplies and decreases in state aid and federal revenue. Bell said that the regular state levy collections were up $165,937 and special levy collections had increased by […]

Mark Joseph Smith 1953-2022 Mark Joseph Smith, 69, passed away Tuesday, March 1, 2022, at The University of Maryland Capital Regional Health, Largo, Md. Born February 19, 1953, in Baltimore, Md., he was the son of Dr. Joseph Hurst Smith and Mildred L. Fox and the husband of Tammy S. (Yost) Smith. He was a […]

Beulah Joan “Jo” Shaw 1935-2022 Beulah Joan “Jo” Shaw, 87, formerly of Buck Valley Road, Warfordsburg, Pa., passed away on March 2, 2022, at the Fulton County Medical Center. Born January 14, 1935, in Needmore, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Carl and Ruth Garland. She was the widow of Gerald W. Shaw. […]

Sherrilyn Marie Landmann 1955-2022 Sherrilyn Marie Landmann, age 66, of Great Cacapon, W.Va., died on Sunday, February 27, 2022, of pancreatic cancer, at her home while under the care of Hospice of the Panhandle. Born June 23, 1955 in Detroit, Mich., she was the daughter of the late Lynwood Gordon and Beverly Jean Pefley Perkins. […]

William Joseph Nichols 1953-2022 William Joseph “Joe” Nichols, age 69, of Martinsburg, W.Va., formerly of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at his home. Born May 19, 1953 at Charleston Memorial Hospital in Charleston, W.Va., he was the son of the late Dr. Samuel Irving and Jeanne Marie Hill Nichols. Joe was a […]