by KATE EVANS An 88-year old Morgan County man has died of COVID-19, health officials announced on November 21. This is the first reported COVID-related death in the county.  The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) made the announcement in their Saturday update report about the status of coronavirus infection in the state.  […]

As West Virginia rifle season approaches, hunters are considering many different factors when deciding where and how they are going to hunt. Things like the weather, the mast crop, hunting pressure, etc. can all make a difference in what a hunter should do. One thing that I seldom hear mentioned is the date that opening […]

Maryland State Police have said Thomas S. Cox, 38, of Berkeley Springs was struck and killed along Interstate 70 in the early morning hours of Tuesday, November 17.  Police had responded to a motor vehicle accident near the 18 mile marker of I-70 near Clear Spring shortly before 5 a.m. on Tuesday. They determined that […]

Jim Buzzerd Getting busy next week Fans of West Virginia University athletics will have a fine viewing schedule next week beginning on Thanksgiving Eve. That’s when the Mountaineer basketball team will kick off the season by taking on Texas A&M in the first game of the Bad Boy Mowers Crossover Classic in Sioux Falls, South […]

by Jamie Harris Last week the Potomac Valley Conference released the Division 1 All-PVC volleyball team. Berkeley Springs junior standout Ally Morris was named to the 2020 volleyball team for the first time in her high school career. Morris who is a two-time Morgan Messenger and Hancock News All-Area Volleyball Player of the Year led […]

by Geoff Fox A Warfordsburg woman was killed in a crash on November 10 on Buck Valley Road in Warfordsburg. Police said at some point during the crash after dark, Bohrer was partially ejected through the passenger side window. She was not wearing a seatbelt, police said. According to Pennsylvania State Police, around 7:30 p.m. […]

by Geoff Fox The C&O Canal National Historical Park has announced the closure of the bridge over the canal in Hancock beginning on or about Thursday, November 19, to all traffic. Weather permitting, the construction is expected to continue for about four weeks. Work was originally scheduled to being in late September. The bridge itself […]

by KATE SHUNNEY Fulton County went from a designation of “low” community transmission of COVID-19 during the week of October 23 to its current “substantial” transmission rates, according to a Pennsylvania Department of Health report. Fulton County, which borders Washington County, Md. and nearly touches Morgan County, W.Va. has never had a “Moderate” transmission level designation […]

West Virginia’s buck firearms season opens next Monday, November 23. The season has been extended to 14 days and includes an additional Sunday this year. “The buck firearms season traditionally opens on the Monday before Thanksgiving and closes two weeks later on a Saturday, but hunters will be able to get out into the woods […]

A Saturday evening 911 call for a fight at a Morgan County apartment building has resulted in three people being charged for drug-related crimes. Police responded around 6 p.m. to the 6000 block of Valley Road to two emergency calls about a physical altercation. According to a criminal complaint filed in Morgan County Magistrate Court, […]