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The Morgan County Commission heard ideas about heating and cooling the future county courthouse with geothermal energy at their Friday, August 24 meeting.

J. Philip Kesecker is one of the local volunteers being honored by the Berkeley Springs-Moragn County Chamber of Commerce. He will join the 49 members of the Apple Butter Festival Hall of Fame. Kesecker will be inducted into the Hall of Fame at a community luncheon on Wednesday, September 12, noon at The Country Inn.

The afternoon will feature fun entertainment. The luncheon's corporate sponsor is the U.S. Silica Company. Tickets for the luncheon are available at the Chamber office.

Funds to advance construction of a dam in the Lost River watershed in Hardy County have been added to federal appropriations bills by U. S. Senator Robert Byrd.

Byrd, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, included $5 million for the Lost River Watershed Project. The funds will help complete the design of the project and begin construction of Phase I of Lost River Watershed Site 16, an earth fill dam that will provide flood protection, recreation and water supply to eastern Hardy County.

Town of Bath Council had the first reading of two new ordinances that would add stiff fines for violators and give police the power to impound dogs and confiscate bicycles.

(Reprinted from The Morgan Messenger, May 24, 2000)

Part One

Faced with the prospect of buying a new garbage truck at the cost of $100,000, Bath Town Council held a lively debate on whether to continue providing trash pickup service to town residents.

Wednesday, August 22, 2007.

New billboards over 32 square feet in size will be banned along the entire length of the Washington Heritage Trail in Morgan County.

A Morgan County teenager who was reported missing by her mother August 13 was located last week.

She is in the custody of the State of West Virginia, said Inspector Link of the Morgan County Sheriff's Department.

It still feels like summer, but Morgan County kids headed back to class on Monday, filling desks in the county's eight schools.

The school year includes