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U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd has announced that members of his staff will hold mobile office hours for West Virginians with federally related problems or questions.

They will be in Morgan County Friday, June 29, 10:30 - noon at the Senior Center, 187 South Green Street, Berkeley Springs.

Mike Myers, owner and barber, has been carrying on an old tradition of giving men haircuts in Paw Paw.

After a quarter of a century, the dream of seven members of the Morgan County World War II Memorial Association, and of other local WWII veterans, is about to become a reality.

The long awaited World War II Memorial will be erected on the east end of the Fairfax Street green.

The West Virginia University Community Design Team has provided copies of their report as a first step in the Streetscape project for the Town of Bath. The project's aim is to improve the appearance and walk-ability of the town.

"The team was invited to come to our community to help guide and plan for various efforts which would grow out of a Federal Transportation grant awarded to the Town of Bath for streetscape improvements," said Garnet Marsh, town recorder and chair person of the Streetscape Committee.

The Town of Paw Paw will hold a new Paw Paw Festival the weekend of September 14-16. The festival will be held in the Paw Paw Park and fields and the Paw Paw School fields area, said Mayor Julie Kidwell.

Activities will include an area fireman's parade and competition, a carnival, bingo, a regional beauty pageant for children and teens, entertainment, a fiddle competition, Sunday bluegrass gospel music, food, crafts and Saturday fireworks.

A Civil War Living History Encampment jointly sponsored by the Town of Paw Paw and Avalon Resort was held in the Paw Paw town park on May 19. At the encampment, visitors learned about the way the Union and Confederate soldiers lived, their hopes and dreams, their loves and hardships, and the way they fought.

With the crack of rifles in the air and the booming orders of Union Officers, the participants reminded that West Virginia cast its lot with the Union and became inextricably linked with the bloodiest war in American history. The Civil War Living History Encampment consisted of men in uniform, pitched tents, music and the sound of horses' hooves.

Families and individuals from the Morgan County area who are interested in nature and conservation are welcome to attend a Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS) picnic supper at Cacapon State Park on Sunday, June 24.

The picnic will be held from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Gazebo picnic shelter, which is located in the middle of the park's picnic area.

A few people may remember when doctors made house calls at all hours — day or night, rain, sleet or snow. Those times are long gone, but many folks would not be here today without the services of old-time country doctors like Edgar H. Willard.

What would happen if a flu pandemic or a natural or terrorist made disaster on the scale of Katrina happened in the area? How would area medical and emergency professionals respond? How important is it to have a working plan in place?

After being told about plans for a farmers' market on Thursday afternoons this summer, the Bath Town Council voted unanimously to approve the idea.