Marsha Chwalik

23 hours ago | wvmetronews.com | Marsha Chwalik

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A farmland preservation group in Berkeley County will celebrate its 25th anniversary later this month. The Berkeley County Farmland Protection Board was created on June 15, 2000 after enabling legislation was approved by state lawmakers. Berkeley County was the first to establish a board after the statewide bill was signed into law. Resa Ingram-Orsini, who heads up the board, said the efforts have been successful.

2 days ago | wvmetronews.com | Marsha Chwalik

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. —  Eight more people have been sentenced for their roles in a massive Eastern Panhandle drug trafficking organization. Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard for the Northern District of West Virginia tells MetroNews an indictment from January of 2024 named Gary Brown, Jr. and eighty-one others, charging that the defendants caused substantial amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine to be distributed in Berkeley and Jefferson Counties.

4 days ago | wvmetronews.com | Marsha Chwalik

KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. — A motorcycle crash in Jefferson County Sunday claimed a life. Lt. Robert Sell with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department tells The Panhandle News Network that Law Enforcement and Fire/EMS were dispatched to Route 115 and the intersection of Old Creamery Place in Kearneysville just after 6 in the evening for a single motorcycle crash with serious injury.

4 days ago | wvmetronews.com | Marsha Chwalik

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Former longtime Martinsburg Mayor George Karos is being fondly remembered following his death Sunday at the age of 95. Karos, who was born Sept. 10, 1931, served 24 years as an at-large member of Martinsburg City Council from 1976-2000 followed by 20 years (2000-2020) as the mayor. In a 2020 on the floor of the U.S. Senate, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito paid tribute to Karos following his decision to not seek re-election.

1 week ago | wvmetronews.com | Marsha Chwalik

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — This time last year, farmers in the Eastern Panhandle were gearing up for a significant drought that didn’t see relief until late summer. This year, it looked like it was trending that way for the first three or four months of the year. The US Drought Monitor had listed Martinsburg and Charles Town as D2 or Severe Drought areas only a few weeks ago, but later in the month moved those areas to Moderate Drought, or D1 status.