Larry K. VanGosen 1943-2020 Larry Kent VanGosen, 76, of Berkeley Springs, died Friday, February 7, 2020 at Hospice of the Panhandle Inpatient Facility in Kearneysville. Born October 13, 1943 in Berkeley Springs, he was the son of the late Berkeley Carter and Martha Ellen Barney VanGosen. He was a Christian. He attended Berkeley Springs High School and Morris […]

Freda V. Kerns 1930-2020 Freda Virginia Kerns, 90, of Paw Paw, died Monday, February 3, 2020 at Winchester Medical Center in Winchester, Va. S he was born January 9, 1930 at Paw Paw, she was the daughter of the late Dayton A. See and Esther Miller See. She was a 1947 graduate of Paw Paw High School. […]

Donald F. Berens 1928-2020 Donald Frank Berens, age 91, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., formerly of Waldorf, Md., died on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at his home. Born April 2, 1928 in Lorain, Ohio, he was the son of the late Joseph August and Anna Stefik Berens. One week after graduating from Lorain High School in […]

by Jim Buzzerd Looking for a road win The West Virginia University Men’s Basketball Team split a pair of rematch games last week losing to a red hot Texas Tech team 89-81 in Lubbock and outlasting Kansas State 66-57 at home last Saturday. WVU has now split regular season games with both teams with the […]

by Jamie Harris The Paw Paw Pirates Varsity Boys’ Basketball Team split a pair of games last week on the hard wood. On Monday, January 27 the Pirates hosted the Moorefield Yellow Jackets at the Paw Paw gym. Moorefield jumped out to a 19-9 first quarter lead. By the end of the second quarter the […]

by Kate Evans West Virginia Assistant State Fire Marshal George Harms reported on several area fires that had been flagged as suspicious or as arson. Harms said his office determined that the January 7 Eckerd Lane house fire in Berkeley Springs does not meet the requirements of the law for arson. The Eckerd Lane house […]

by Geoff Fox Pennsylvania State Police responded to two traffic accidents in Fulton County in which three people from Hancock were involved. The first accident occurred just after 11:30 a.m. on January 30 on Timber Ridge Road in Fulton County, about five miles south of Needmore. According to police, the accident occurred as a 2001 […]

by Kate Shunney The driver of one of the trucks involved in a double-fatal crash in early May 2019 has pled no contest to one count of negligent homicide in Morgan County Circuit Court. Bryce G. Waugh, 18, of Waugh Road in Berkeley Springs entered the plea during a January 23 hearing before Circuit Judge […]

On February 9, 1820, the General Assembly of Virginia formed Morgan County from parts of Hampshire and Berkeley counties. Two hundred years later, the citizens of Morgan County are invited to celebrate their county’s 200th birthday with a party at the County Courthouse on Sunday, February 9 from 2 to 4 p.m. Balloons, cake, beverages […]

Driving through Morgan County changed last Thursday, January 30. The county’s newest four-way traffic signal, located at U.S. 522 and Myers Road, went online in the morning. Morgan County now has four stoplights. School traffic at the busy intersection was controlled by red and green lights for the first time last week, after two week […]