by Geoff Fox Students gathered in the gym at Hancock Middle-Senior High School last Thursday for part of a rally to get the HGTV show “Home Town” to choose Hancock to get made over next season. Residents and students turned out last Thursday to take part in a community rally for the HGTV Hometown Makeover […]

Floyd Nelson Hendershot 1932-2020 Floyd Nelson Hendershot, age 87, of Cumberland, Md., passed into his heavenly journey on January 29, 2020, at the Martinsburg, W.Va. Veterans Medical Center Long-Term Care facility, with his son at his side. Floyd was born April 9, 1932. He was the son of the late Melvin Lee and Ada Pearl […]

Sidney J. Biggs Shingleton 1948-2020 It is with great sadness that the family of Sidney Jane Biggs Shingleton announces her passing on Friday, January 31, 2020 at the age of 71 years. Sidney was born in Charleston, W.Va. on September 28, 1948 to the late Waitman Barbe Biggs and Evelyn Easol Pullen Biggs. She graduated […]

Nelda L. Howell 1930-2020 Nelda Lee Howell, 89, of Hedgesville, died Saturday, February 1, 2020 at Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg. Born May 29, 1930 in Madison, she was the daughter of the late Delmer and Minnie Cleo Woods Hager. She was a member of Grace United Methodist Church. She was a graduate of Scott […]

Melanie L. Kline 1993-2020 Melanie Lynn Kline, 26, of Berkeley Springs, died Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at Berkeley Medical Center in Martinsburg. Born May 29, 1993 in Frederick County, Md., she was the daughter of Jeffrey Wayne and Teresa Lynn Myers Kline, Berkeley Springs. She attended Open Arms Ministry in Hedgesville. She was a graduate of Berkeley […]

Marie D. Kozak 1925-2020 Marie Dorothea Kozak, 94, of Berkeley Springs, died Thursday, January 30, 2020 at her residence. Born February 16, 1925 in Baltimore, Md., she was the daughter of the late Charles Bartholomew Leo and Pauline Petronella Keller Hester. She was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. She was a […]

  by Kate Evans Seasonal influenza activity and flu-like illness is now widespread in our area, with growing numbers of flu cases confirmed at War Memorial Hospital and illnesses prevalent in local schools. War Memorial Hospital’s emergency room has seen an increase of patient cases with flu and flu-like illness symptoms, said Chris Parsons, Emergency Department Director. Medical staff confirmed […]

Berkeley Springs High School and Warm Springs Middle School girls basketball teams will hold a free basketball clinic for girls in grades second through fifth  on Saturday, February 1. The clinic will consist of basic skills and drills that will be led by the BSHS Lady Indian coach Dale McCumbee and his  staff and players […]

by Jim Buzzerd Anyone’s game? Seems most West Virginia University fans would be pleased with the Mountaineers’ 16-3 record to begin the 2019-2020 season. That is especially true considering the team won only 15 games a season ago. The success so far has the Mountaineers projected to attain even more lofty status as the season […]

Department Begins New Survey of Mason-Dixon Line January 27, 2020 Effort To Document Remaining Original Markers from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources The Maryland Geological Survey, a unit of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, will lead professional surveying societies of Maryland and Pennsylvania in a new survey of monuments along the Mason-Dixon Line. […]