Hancock Police report the following arrests and incidents from the week of Monday, June 5, through Sunday, June 11: June 5 Traffic enforcement Hancock area, three stops. Check well being 200 block Quaker Creek. Subject ok. Service to advise 200 block West Main Street. Subject advised. Check well being 100[Read More…]
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Tonoloway Rod & Gun Club 2023 scholarship recipients
Tonoloway Rod and Gun Club’s 2023 scholarship winners for graduating seniors from Hancock Middle Senior High School were Jennifer Barnhart, Joslyn Foltz, and Brianna Buskirk. Each received a $ 500 scholarship to further their education after high school. Jennifer Barnhart also the John Philip Sousa band award, was the Maryland[Read More…]
Washington County preserves 115-acre farm
The Washington County Department of Planning & Zoning announced the preservation of a 115-acre farm in Washington County. On May 25, a dedicated landowner in Washington County sold a 115-acre conservation easement in Boonsboro through the Rural Legacy Program. This program, supported by funding from the Maryland Department of Natural[Read More…]
Eidolon ice cream social Sunday, June 25
The Potomac Valley Audubon Society (PVAS), with volunteers Paul and Beth Dobson, are hosting an open house and ice cream social at Eidolon Nature Preserve located at 2146 Orleans Road, Great Cacapon, W.Va. on Sunday, June 25, from 1- 4 p.m. Eidolon Nature Preserve for an open house and ice[Read More…]
Bicyclists pedal toward Hancock to escape smog
Maryland agencies unite to combat Elder Financial Abuse during PROTECT Week 2023
AARP Maryland, the Maryland Attorney General, Comptroller of Maryland, Maryland Department of Aging, Maryland Department of Human Services, Office of Financial Regulation in the Maryland Department of Labor, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office — along with a coalition of federal, local government, business and consumer groups — are kicking off[Read More…]
George Hamilton Breakall III
George Hamilton Breakall III 1939-2023 George Hamilton Breakall III passed away on June 1, 2023 at his home in Elizabeth, Colorado, after suffering with Multiple Myeloma. George was born on June 3, 1939 to George Hamilton Jr. and Anna Alta Caldwell Breakall in Hancock, Md. He graduated from Southern Fulton High[Read More…]
Marsha Dawn Waugh
Marsha Dawn Waugh 1954-2023 Marsha Dawn Waugh, 69, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, June 4, 2023 with her beloved sons at her bedside. She was born January 31, 1954, in Martinsburg, W.Va. Her parents, the late Bernard Mack Kesecker, Sr. and Ethel Lorena Barnhart[Read More…]
Valerie Anne Roach
Valerie Anne Roach 1970-2023 Valerie Anne Roach, age 52, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., passed away on Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at the Berkeley Springs Healthcare Center. Born August 31, 1970 in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., she was the daughter of William Clyde Jackson and the late Nancy Jane Michael Jackson. She[Read More…]
William C. Burkett
William C. Burkett 1929-2023 William C. “Bill” Burkett, 93, of Warfordsburg, Pa., passed away Friday, June 2nd, 2023 at the Fulton County Medical Center Long Term Care Center, McConnellsburg, Pa. Bill was born in South Fork, Pa. on October 1, 1929. He was raised as a foster child by the[Read More…]
