Donald G. Kidwell 1936-2020 Donald Gene Kidwell, 83, passed away on January 15, 2020 at Cortland Acres in Thomas, West Virginia. Don made his home in Berkeley Springs for more than 50 years but spent his last three years with his daughter in Canaan Valley. He was born August 2, 1936 in Paw Paw, West […]

Customers of Frontier Communications were hit with telephone service outages yesterday, Wednesday, January 15 and continue to have trouble today in certain parts of Morgan County. On Wednesday, Morgan County 911 lost use of several Frontier phone lines due to the service cut. 911 continued to work despite the phone trouble. Sarah Hogbin, spokesperson for […]

by Jeanne Mozier From a life-sized cardboard cut-out of namesake Revolutionary War General Daniel Morgan to a series of oral history recordings, themed events and a designated Morgan County Day on July 6, local residents and visitors are spending the year celebrating the county’s Bicentennial. It all starts with a birthday party at the Courthouse […]

by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs High School Indians Boys’ Varsity Basketball Team picked up a huge sectional win over PVC rival Petersburg on Thursday, January 9. Behind double digit scoring from four starters, the Indians rolled to a 79-65 win to improve to 5-5 on the season. In the first quarter, Berkeley Springs jumped […]

by Jim Buzzerd Odds and ends In a few hours Clemson and LSU will be playing for the NCAA College Football Championship. The defending champion Tigers of Clemson are currently a six-point underdog to the Tigers of LSU. Personally, I don’t have a Tiger in this hunt, but most of the time I trend to […]

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announces the opening of the winter turkey season, which runs statewide from Thursday, January 23 to Saturday, January 25 for hunters who did not harvest a turkey during the 2019 fall season. Hunting hours are from one half-hour before sunrise to one half-hour after sunset. The bag limit is […]

by Kate Shunney As of press time on Tuesday, January 14, close to a dozen individuals had filed to run for office in 2020 through the Morgan County Clerk’s office. Candidate filing runs through January 25. Magistrate race Johnnie Walter, the current Chief Deputy of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department, has filed to run for […]

by Kate Evans Seasonal influenza activity is high across the United States and continues to increase, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This region was among 46 states and Puerto Rico with widespread flu activity, including West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Ohio. The District of Columbia had local flu activity. A […]

by Kate Evans Five deer that were hunter-harvested in Morgan County during the first two days of the 2019-2020 buck firearms season tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). A deer harvested during the 2018-2019 hunting season also tested positive for the disease – the first one confirmed in the county. West Virginia Division of […]

by Geoff Fox For the last three months, there has been a group of middle school students at Hancock Middle School working on creating and programming a working robot for competitions and getting a head start on their futures. The club is student-driven and meets for an hour and a half each week. The group […]