by KATE EVANS Morgan County Public Library and Paw Paw Public Library are still providing services during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Staff is planning for holiday activities beginning this month. Morgan County Public Library library director Sarah Drennan said that the library would be offering their annual Santa’s Mailbox this year beginning next Monday, November 16.  […]

“Despite my young age, it was something I would never forget” by Kate Shunney Iva Lou Michael Dawson’s personal diary chronicles the sickness and financial burdens of the 1918-1919 “Spanish flu” pandemic that swept through the U.S. and across the globe, leaving its mark on her family . Dawson’s daughter, Sylvia Thomas, transcribed the pages […]

by KATE SHUNNEY Morgan County Commissioner Ken Reed last week won his bid to become a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates. Reed, a Republican, said previously that if he secured the seat in Charleston, he would step down from the Morgan County Commission in order to serve in the Legislature. Reed’s Commission […]

by Trish Rudder A special meeting about building codes enforcement will be held in the Town of Bath on Monday, November 16 at 4 p.m. In the November 3 Bath Town Council meeting, Mayor Scott Merki said he will meet with the building code enforcement agency members at Town Hall or they will attend online, […]

Cindy Pentoney, left, and Cathy Spielman, right, make a paper tally of votes read out from voting machine receipts on Monday, November 9. Staff from the County Clerk’s office stops several times during the canvass to check that hand tallies match. 2020 Election delivers 60% local turnout, big wins for GOP by KATE SHUNNEY Editor’s note: […]

Jeffery A. Haynes 1967-2020 Jeffery Allen Haynes, 53, of Berkeley Springs, died Thursday, November 5, 2020 at Winchester Medical Center. Born June 5, 1967 in Silver Spring, Md., he was the son of Richard Jerry, Sr. and Joan Carolyn Fadeley Haynes of Berkeley Springs. He was a member of Faith in God Chapel in Berkeley Springs. He was a […]

Judith A. Velez 1947-2020 Judith A. Diehl Velez, 73, of Williamsport, Md., formerly of Hancock, died on Saturday, October 31, 2020 at Doey’s House, Hagerstown, Md. She was born July 26, 1947 in Berkeley Springs, to the late John Courtney, Sr. and Willadean Courtney. She is survived by her children, Melodie Deshong, Fort Littleton, Pa., […]

Robert Lee Younker 1934-2020 Robert Lee Younker, age 85, of Hancock, Md., passed away peacefully on Monday, November 2, 2020, surrounded by his loving family. Born December 5, 1934, in Hancock, he was the son of the late Herman Elwood Younker and Pansy Marie (Walls) Younker Coonrod. He was preceded in death by his loving […]

by Geoff Fox A gas leak along Main Street at Joseph Hancock Park had Hancock’s Main Street closed and houses and businesses evacuated late Monday morning and into the afternoon of November 9. Potomac Edison was setting a new pole near the park when it hit a Columbia Gas natural gas line. The break was […]

Screenshot of the West Virginia Department of Education map. by KATE EVANS Morgan County Schools students will return to school  this week Monday, November 9 through Friday, November 13 after the county was classified as a gold county on the West Virginia Department of Education’s Saturday, November 7 School Alert System map for COVID-19. There is […]