by Geoff Fox In a 3-1 vote, town officials approved the promise scholarship for local high school students, first proposed by Mayor Ralph Salvagno in February. Councilman Tim Boyer was the lone vote against the scholarship. During the May town meeting, Salvagno fleshed out plans for the scholarship by adding four statements to a draft […]

by KATE SHUNNEY & TRISH RUDDER West Virginia Division of Highways map rendering of the southern end of a 522 Bypass. Morgan County Commissioners and Town of Bath officials have both joined an effort by local business officials to seek changes to state Division of Highways (DOH) plans for a U.S. 522 bypass east of […]

by KATE SHUNNEY Boyd Michael opens the May 3 listening session at Hancock Middle Senior High School. For the second time in two weeks, Washington County Public Schools Superintendent Boyd Michael got a taste of Hancock’s displeasure over the shift of the local agriculture teacher to Clear Spring. But during last Thursday’s listening session at […]

Morgan County voters renewed the school excess levy by a wide margin during Tuesday’s primary election, picked one new school board member and re-elected two more, and chose a fresh GOP candidate for a November race for the Morgan County Commission. Voting turnout locally topped 28 percent between 10 days of early voting and ballots […]

by KATE SHUNNEY Kanawha Circuit Judge Joanna Tabit last week rejected an emergency petition to force election officials to not include candidate Tally Reed on the May 8 primary election ballot in Morgan and Berkeley counties, and to discard any votes cast for her in the primary. Reed is a Republican seeking a seat in […]

by KATE SHUNNEY The Washington County Board of Zoning denied a request on May 2 from cell phone provider U.S. Cellular to secure an exception to county rules and allow the construction of a 195’ monopole tower on Sideling Hill Mountain. In a 3-2 vote, the board rejected the request to build the tower at […]

Several members of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department and the Berkeley Springs police department recovered suspected crystal meth and marijuana, along with weapons and cash during the search of a residence in southern Morgan County on Tuesday, May 1. Sheriff K.C. Bohrer said in a media release that officers executed a search warrant at a […]

1960-2018 Richard Wayne Mills, 57, of Paw Paw, died Sunday, April 22, 2018 at Western Maryland Health System, Cumberland, Md. Born March 18, 1960 in Silver Spring, Md., he was the son of the late Gary and Louise Osbourne Mills. He was of the Baptist faith. He attended public schools in Silver Spring. He worked for Waste […]

1930-2018 Joyce A. Wakeford, 87, formerly of Berkeley Springs, died Friday, March 30, 2018 in Akron, Ohio. She was active in many local organizations, especially as a volunteer for the Museum of the Berkeley Springs. She is survived by her two children, Anne Wakeford, Elkins and Mark Wakeford, Washington, D.C. She was preceded in death […]

1941-2018 Samuel Dennis Swaim, 76, of Berkeley Springs, died Wednesday, April 25, 2018, at War Memorial Hospital, Berkeley Springs. Born July 7, 1941 in Morgan County, he was the son of the late Roscoe R. Swaim and Mary E. (Hovermill) Swaim. He was a member of the Berkeley Springs Church of Christ. He retired from […]