by Kate Shunney A Great Cacapon resident was arrested on Tuesday night by local police after he allegedly tried to kill his girlfriend near Oldtown, Md. and left her by the side of the road there. Local law enforcement was dispatched to the couple’s residence in Great Cacapon on Tuesday, January 15 shortly before 8 […]

Berkeley Springs High School senior Larry Miller, 21, shoots over Frankfort senior Zach Whitacre, 24, on Friday, January 4.photo by Amanda Miller by Jamie Harris The Berkeley Springs High School Indians Varsity Boys’ Basketball Team went 1-2 in games played  last week. With two road contests and one home event the Tribe was looking to […]

Basketball woes by Jim Buzzerd There was plenty of optimism surrounding the West Virginia University football program last Thursday as new head coach Neal Brown held his introductory press conference. It is a busy time for the new head coach as he is tasked with getting his coaching staff in place and shoring up the […]

by Kate Evans The official Morgan County School headcount enrollment figures for the 2018-2019 school year have decreased by 30 students from the 2017-2018 school year.   The loss in enrollment will reduce state aid funding for Morgan County in the 2019-2020 school year. How much state money will be lost is uncertain at this time. […]

Sheriff K.C. Bohrer has been appointed by Governor Jim Justice to the Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment as the board’s law enforcement representative. Appointments to the board were made on January 2. The 13-member council includes the state’s Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources, the Secretary of Military Affairs […]

Members of the Morgan County Grand Jury returned 19 true bills when they met on Tuesday, January 8, indicting 19 individuals for a variety of felony crimes. The accused will be arraigned in Morgan County Circuit Court on Monday, January 28 and will enter a plea of guilt or innocence to the charges. Among those […]

by Geoff Fox Town Manager David Smith resigned from his position on January 9 at the end of a Hancock town council meeting. Mayor Ralph Salvagno read Smith’s resignation letter during the January town meeting as Smith sat at the front council table. Smith didn’t say when his last day on the job would be, […]

by Kate Evans The installation of a new four-way traffic light at Myers Road on U.S. Route 522 near Widmyer Elementary and the Morgan County Schools bus garage will now be able to move forward. West Virginia Division of Highways officials had hoped to complete the traffic light installation last summer while school was out, […]

by Geoff Fox Rick Cook has only been with the Hancock Police Department since 2017, but has quickly risen from officer to sergeant last October and now to police chief. In a surprise motion during a special meeting on January 2, Town Councilman Tim Smith made a motion to promote Cook, but his motion didn’t […]

by Geoff Fox Two people were injured in a five-vehicle accident on Monday morning, January 14, at the 2-mile marker on westbound Interstate 70 in Hancock. The accident scene was just before the bridge over Pennsylvania Avenue. According to Maryland State Police, around 10 a.m. Monday morning, troopers from the Maryland State Police Hagerstown Barrack […]