Kate Shunney

Driven by a requirement of the West Virginia Legislature, the Morgan County school board has drafted a personnel policy that would let school workers donate their personal leave to co-workers who are sick or need to care for family.

At a time when the future feels uncertain for many people, Morgan County has become home to an organization that specializes in uncertainty and surprises.

Portions of the old B & O rail line behind the Berkeley Springs train depot have recently been uncovered and removed as part of an environmental cleanup project by CSX Transportation, Inc. and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

DEP Project Manager Patty Hickman said soil and old railroad ties in that spot tested positive for unacceptable levels of arsenic, and are being carted away to approved disposal facilities.

Freezing rain and icy conditions weighed heavily on

trees and power lines Saturday night through Sunday morning, December 16, leaving many county electric customers

In the summer of 1952, Wanda Bailey went swimming at Cacapon State Park lake. At some point, the young woman from Beckley felt her high school class ring float off her finger in the water. Well, that's that, she thought, as her Woodrow Wilson High School ring sank through the water and settled onto the sandy bottom.

Over the years, Bailey thought of that gold ring with its red stone and gold "B" on the face. But she didn't fret about it, or get a replacement ring. She was busy building a life – marrying, moving to Washington, D.C. for a career with the government, raising three children, enjoying her grandchildren.

Well drillers and farmers came down on different sides

of water well regulations in

Two Thanksgivings ago, I set a holiday task for myself.

This year, I decided, I'll only buy Christmas presents made in the United States.

Greenwood fifth grader Dylan Schneider got a little worried when he heard his Aunt Olga Ziegler talking about his cousin Chris Wallace heading off to a tour of duty in Iraq.

County residents will get a chance to share their thoughts about changes to Morgan County's development rules during a public hearing on November 27.

A student case of staph infection at Widmyer Elementary in September has been confirmed as the more serious strain known as Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

County school officials looked into the case earlier this month and were given the diagnosis by the child's doctor. An earlier report in The Morgan Messenger quoted school health officials saying the infection was not MRSA.