Two Maryland State Police helicopters rescued a hiker that had fallen 40 feet from a cliff on Saturday in Morgan County in a heavily wooded area near the Woods Resort.

Mayor Susan Webster announced a major improvement project for Fairfax Street at the Tuesday, September 18 meeting of the Bath Town Council.

A busy Morgan County Grand Jury handed down indictments on September 11 against 55 people for felony charges ranging from sexually abusing a preschooler to armed robbery and assorted thefts, burglaries and frauds.

Two dozen people were indicted by the Morgan County Grand Jury on Tuesday, September 4 as a direct result of an undercover drug investigation by the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department.

A 17-year-old Pennsylvania boy accidentally drowned last Friday in a large pond on Tuscarora Trail, south of Berkeley Springs.

Heavy rain and flooding in Berkeley Springs on Saturday afternoon, September 1, swamped the town’s business section at the height of Labor Day weekend.

The flash flood that inundated downtown Berkeley Springs with fast-moving muddy water after a series of severe thunderstorms flooded homes and businesses and damaged several streets.

A special meeting was called at the courthouse on Sunday, September 2, to address the flood issues and damages to downtown Berkeley Springs the day before.