by Kate Evans Artists, dance and yoga instructors, school teachers and others got creative about getting their art and information to students and audiences through remote learning as schools and other venues closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jennifer Carpenter-Peak (Jensuya) and her husband Bob Peak of TarabRaqs were scheduled to teach Middle Eastern dance […]

by Geoff Fox Hancock Town Manager Joe Gilbert told town officials during the tele-conference town meeting last Wednesday both the wastewater and freshwater projects are moving along and bids have been received from contractors for the preliminary engineering reports (PERs). The upgrades are to the town’s water and sewer infrastructure – separate from the construction […]

by Geoff Fox An idea originating from her mother led Hancock teen Brianna Buskirk to create treat pans for first responders around Washington County. Brianna’s mother, Beth Buskirk, is a first responder came home one day and mentioned many of first responders in Washington County were sometimes forgotten about with the health care community because […]

Stay-at-home orders designed to keep high-risk residents safe amid the pandemic have created a rapid increase in the number of seniors who rely on home-delivered meals as their primary source of food. “In order to keep the elderly citizens of Morgan County safe, we have increased our services as seniors are faced with staying home […]

Senior class banners filled windows at Tari’s Café and other downtown businesses last week as the town showed their support for the Berkeley Springs High School Class of 2020. One sign at Berkeley Springs State Park pulled no punches about what the year was like for graduating seniors. Walgreens tipped their hats at Berkeley Springs […]

Morgan County’s spring term of Grand Jury has been postponed twice, and is now set to hear cases on Wednesday, June 17. This session will be the meeting of the Grand Jury that was supposed to meet in April to consider criminal charges in Morgan County Circuit Court. Grand jurors selected in January will be […]

Rose A. Kirk 1928-2020 Rose Ann (Johnson) Kirk, age 91, of Warfordsburg, Pa., passed away at her home on Friday, May 15, 2020. Born September 15, 1928, in Hancock, Md., she was the daughter of the late James and Ethel (Myers) Johnson; and the widow of William “Bud” Kirk, Jr. Rose loved gardening and cooking. She is […]

Nicholas Berry Buckingham, Jr. 1935-2020 Nicholas Berry Buckingham, Jr., 84, died Thursday, May 7, 2020 at home with his wife in Great Cacapon, West Virginia. Born September 15, 1935, he was the son of the late Nicholas Berry Buckingham and Mary Elizabeth Dell. He was the loving husband to Helen Buckingham for 10 years. In […]

Charles C. Nasser 1970-2020 Charles Christian Nasser, 50, of Berkeley Springs, died Thursday, May 14, 2020 at War Memorial Hospital. Born January 24, 1970 in Cumberland, Md., he was the son of Lewis Michael Nasser and stepmother Geraldine Nasser of Westernport, Md. and Mary Ellen Logsdon Nasser of Cumberland, Md. He was a Christian. He was a 1988 […]

Ricky D. Kyne 1970-2020 Ricky Daryl Kyne, 50, of Berkeley Springs, died Thursday, May 14, 2020 at his residence. Born January 16, 1970 at War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs, he was the son of Elmer Franklin Kyne, Berkeley Springs and the late Carolyn Sue Frederick Kyne, who died on February 23, 2017. He attended […]