Vernon Widmyer A Celebration of Life for Vernon Widmyer who passed away March 25, 2020 during the pandemic will be held 11 a.m. June 27, 2020 at Inwood Assembly of God and recreation center. Please come and join us with a covered dish to honor my father to lay his soul to rest. If any […]

Johnny L. Potter 1948-2020 Johnny Leroy Potter, age 71, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Sunday, May 31, 2020 at his residence while surrounded by his loving family and while under the care of Hospice of the Panhandle. Born July 31, 1948 in Berkeley Springs, he was the son of the late Ervin Byron and […]

Donnie Day Donald “Donnie” Day Donnie Day Donald “Donnie” Day, 70, of Berkeley Springs, was reunited with his lovely wife Deborah Day of 51 years on Saturday, May 30, 2020 with his family by his side. Besides spending time with his family, he had a love for the outdoors, hunting and fishing, never cutting his […]

Betty Lee Yost Cohill Trittipoe 1927-2020 Betty Lee Yost Cohill Trittipoe, age 93, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., died on Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at the Berkeley Springs Center LLC. Betty was born February 10, 1927, in Berkeley Springs, she was the daughter of the late Leonard McClellan and Claudia Estella Stotler Yost. She was a […]

John “Bob” R. Trail 1932-2020 John “Bob” R. Trail, 87, of Little Orleans, Md., passed away to be with the Lord on Friday, May 29, 2020, at his home with his family by his side. Bob was born November 27, 1932, in Warfordsburg, Pa. Mr. Trail was the son of the late John H. Trail […]

Morgan County Health Department officials have said that they have received no positive test results from the 353 COVID-19 tests given during two days of free testing locally on May 29 and May 30. Health Department administrator Bill Kearns confirmed the county’s case numbers hadn’t gone up following the testing event. There are 18 lab-confirmed […]

Protestors holding signs at the corner of U.S. 522 and Fairfax Street on Tuesday afternoon, June 2, said a larger gathering in support of racial justice is set for today, Wednesday, June 3 in the same location. A Facebook event called “Justice for Floyd” has been created to promote a peaceful protest in Berkeley Springs […]

Governor Jim Justice and West Virginia Department of Transportation (WVDOT) Secretary Byrd White on Monday awarded 38 Transportation Alternatives and Recreational Trails Program grants, worth $7,414,975 in total, for projects in 27 West Virginia counties. The West Virginia Transportation Alternatives and Recreational Trails Program is administered by the WVDOT and funded by the Federal Highway […]

by Jim Buzzerd Not a sports take If the Coronavirus pandemic wasn’t enough to put our way of life in chains, now we have nearly a solid week of mob violence across the country as folks protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis policeman. Of course Floyd was black and […]

by GEOFF FOX A Hancock man was served Monday with a criminal summons after local police investigated missing funds from a local fraternal organization. John Philip True, 62, of Heavenly Acres Ridge Road in Hancock, was charged with allegedly stealing over $17,000 from the Hancock group. In July 2019, the Hancock Police Department opened a theft […]