Grace L. Sipes 1930-2021 Grace Louise Sipes, 90, of Berkeley Springs, died Saturday, January 2, 2021 at Winchester Medical Center, Winchester, Va. She was born in Chambersburg, Pa. on September 19, 1930, the daughter of the late Isabelle Stoner and William Miller. She was a member of the Winchester First Church of the Nazarene and a former member […]

Ada Roxelle Younker 1931-2020 Ada Roxelle Younker, age 89, of Warfordsburg, Pa., passed away on Thursday, December 31, 2020 at her home. Born December 3, 1931, in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Frederick V. and Margie Elizabeth (Kyne) Frock; and the widow of Delvie Blair Younker, whom she married in […]

Susan L. Gusciora 1946-2020 Susan Louise Gusciora, age 74, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Saturday, December 12, 2020 at Winchester Medical Center. Born October 14, 1946 in South Bend, Ind., she was the daughter of the late John M. and Betty Marie Westonberg Smith. She was a member of Berkeley Baptist Church. Susan was […]

Margella “Margie” Ruth Clark 1938-2020 Margella “Margie” Ruth Clark was a caring wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. She passed away in her sleep on Saturday, December 26, 2020 at age 82. Margie was born to Lorenza and Hazel Widmyer on November 2, 1938. After attending Berkeley Springs High School, she met and then married […]

by KATE SHUNNEY In the first mass vaccination event for COVID-19 in Morgan County, the Berkeley-Morgan County Health Department on Saturday administered the first dose of a Pfizer COVID vaccine to more than 150 county residents aged 80 and over. The event was set to run from noon until 4 p.m. at Berkeley Springs High […]

by Jamie Harris Last week Governor Jim Justice in a press conference announced that West Virginia  High and Middle School winter sports would be pushed back again this time to March 1. At this time it is not known if this is the first practice date or competition date. More information from the WVSAAC will […]

by Jim Buzzerd See ya, Oscar The West Virginia University Football Team found a way to beat Army 24-21 last Thursday in the Liberty Bowl. Austin Kendall replaced Jarret Doege who had made some poor decisions in holding the ball too long. One instance caused a Doege fumble deep in the Mountaineers territory leading to […]

Morgan County EMS began operating out of its new station on December 31, 2020. The new station is located at 123 Winchester Street in Paw Paw, just across the street from the town office. Crews staff this station with  two personnel — one as an EMT and the other as a paramedic — 24 hours […]

by Kate Evans Morgan County cases of COVID-19 virus infection continue to climb, jumping 100 cases since Christmas Day. As of Monday morning January 4, there were a total of 687 COVID-19 cases in Morgan County — 553 cumulative confirmed cases and 134 cumulative probable cases. Some 166 county residents have active cases of the […]

by Geoff Fox It’s 2021, which means everything that happened in 2020 is now behind us. Whether it was a pandemic, loss of jobs, a presidential election, or just events going on around the world, last year was one we’d rather forget. But there were some things that happened around the Hancock area that we […]