by Kate Shunney Helen Bradfield Shambaugh is known in the Paw Paw area and beyond as a great cook, loving mother and grandmother. She has spent a lifetime caring for and nourishing the people in her family and community – in her home, as a church member, volunteer, school cook and also as a writer. […]

Public comment sought for preferred alternatives by Kate Shunney West Virginia transportation officials have unveiled several options to improve travel and safety along WV-9 between Berkeley Springs and Martinsburg, with particular emphasis on high-congestion areas around Hedgesville. Officials with the Division of Highways and Pittsburgh-based engineering firm Michael Baker International led an online meeting Thursday […]

by Kate Evans Morgan County Schools is in desperate need of substitutes, especially substitute teachers, due to the pandemic, said School Superintendent Kristen Tuttle.  Other big needs are for substitute bus drivers, nurses and custodians. Tuttle has unfilled substitute vacancies every day in schools and on buses, which makes things very difficult now that kids […]

by Helen Bradfield Shambaugh Editor’s note: This article was published originally in the Winter 2003 issue of Goldenseal: West Virginia’s magazine of traditional life. It is reprinted here with the permission of Goldenseal and the author. Shambaugh grew up in the community of Woodrow. She first met Patty Norton while Norton was working as a […]

by Geoff Fox Washington County Commissioners on Tuesday, March 9, unanimously approved a $1.4 million project that would see numerous roads within the county receive a chip seal improvement. Three roads in the Hancock area will be seeing work done on them starting in May. Sandy Mile Road from Western Pike to the Pennsylvania Line, […]

Mask mandates still in effect West Virginia Governor Jim Justice last Friday said all state businesses can operate all their full capacity, including restaurants, bars, grocery stores, retail outlets and fitness centers. The change went into effect over the weekend. Business are still asked to follow Covid-19 safety guidelines, said state officials. Those include mandatory […]

  A Berkeley Springs man has been charged with first-degree robbery. Derrick D. Gladden, 43, was charged with the felony on Saturday, March 6. According to a criminal complaint filed in Morgan County Magistrate Court, Sgt. S. A. Nazelrod of the West Virginia State Police responded to a call on Saturday evening for a burglary/robbery […]

by Geoff Fox The Town of Hancock and National Park Service recently signed a Cooperative Management Agreement that would allow the town to move closer to a proposed boat ramp improvement project along the Potomac River. Hancock’s Potomac boatramp is slated for improvements by the town and National Park Service. Christina Hanson, Chief of Interpretation, […]

by Trish Rudder A special meeting with Bath attorney Richard Gay was scheduled for Tuesday, March 9 at 5 p.m. at Town Hall to speak to the town’s Ordinance Committee and Historic Landmarks Commission regarding the state’s rules on Chapter 8, Section 26A pertaining to Certificates of Appropriateness. Gay is also scheduled to explain the […]

Shelby Jean Deschenes 1940-2021 Shelby Jean Deschenes, age 80, of Hedgesville, W.Va., died on Monday, March 1, 2021 at the WVU-EAST Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg, W.Va. Born December 23, 1940 in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Roy Woodrow “Bud” and Frances Virginia Barker Moss. She was a Christian. Shelby […]