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Lee Wastler is not just bringing a new business to the Cove; he’s bringing a new kind of business. The Cove Shopping Mall is an online mall with various categories for shoppers to peruse. Wastler owns a few businesses in the Cove, including 2BK9...

Build the Beef Barn at the Bedford County Fair planned to announce the completion and opening of the new Bedford Grange Mutual Beef Barn at the Bedford County Fairgrounds, Thursday evening July 15. A ribbon cutting and celebration dinner was held to...

Williamsburg Chief of Police Rowdy Kagarise told the borough during last Monday evening’s meeting that a town hall meeting would take place in August with regard to issues at Cove Forge. At last month’s meeting, Kagarise and Mayor Ted Hyle...

Mill Hill Agway of Williamsburg will be hosting their annual summer festival on Sunday, July 18. Organizer Amanda Biddle said that this festival is always the “third Sunday of July because it’s National Ice Cream Sundae Day.” All ice cream and...

Due to the successful event in 2020, the ATCA Keystone Chapter will again hold an informal Truck Only Cruise-In on Saturday, July 24. The cruise-in will be held on the Through, Inc. grounds across from the Freedom Township Fire Company at 139 Municip...

Martinsburg Community Library The director of Martinsburg Community Library, Danette Feathers, said that the library shut down due to COVID-19 on March 13, 2020. No one was allowed on the property for 10 weeks, though Feathers still checked on the...

Catharina “Tine” Van Dop passed away on Saturday, July 10, after living a meaningful life in her native Netherlands, also called Holland, and her adoptive home in Morrisons Cove. She was in her mid-90s. Her husband Abraham and she were born in...

The Martinsburg Borough Council’s July meeting was held Monday, July 12, at 7 p.m. Borough Manager Rich Brantner Jr. reported that five vaccines were given out at the first vaccine clinic at the borough building on June 15. Six more were given at t...

Justin W. Mitchell, 33, of Claysburg, is facing misdemeanor counts of defiant trespass, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property after police said he stole a truck cap out of his neighbor’s yard. According to Greenfield Township...

The Martinsburg Volunteer Fire Company will have its annual ox roast this weekend, Friday and Saturday, July 16 and 17. It will run from 11 a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m. both days, or when they sell out of meat. The roast will be held at the Morrisons Cove...

The Herald office will close at 1 p.m. on Friday, July 16. The office will be open from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on this day. Normal office hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) will resume Monday, July 19. Please contact the Herald office at (814) 793-2144 with any...

Richard Henry Merritt, 70, of Martinsburg, passed away Friday afternoon, July 2, 2021, at the James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center after an extended illness. He was born April 12, 1951, in College Hill, Pa., the son of the late Florence (Downs) Clem...

Timothy Moorhead, 57, of Martinsburg, passed away Wednesday, June 30, 2021. He was born June 30, 1964, in Philadelphia, the son of the late Gerald and Bettie (Winey) Moorhead. Services will be private at the convenience of the family. Arrangements...

We would like to address some comments and concerns about recent Herald news coverage. Any event that happens within the Cove is news. The role of the Herald is to report local news. Anything reported in the Herald is not to make a statement or choos...

Calling all Witches and Wizards! Join us starting on June 15 at 5:30 p.m. for Summer STEM Camp! This year we will explore the exciting worlds of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics using Harry Potter themed projects! Thanks to the genero...

As most of you know, there was a Pride March in Roaring Spring last month and the Herald, or more specifically, me, covered the event. Approximately 40 people marched without incident, leading me to believe that either people just were not interested...

Herald of April 30, 1896 Fred Martin, adopted son of Christ Martin, living near Peck Station, was driving a harvesting machine when the horses ran off and he was thrown into the gearing of the machine. His right arm was badly injured, part of the...

Herald of June 30, 1971 Randy A. Greaser and Steve Oswald, both of Williamsburg RD 2, won first and second places respectively at the FFA tractor-driving contest at the Pioneer Power Reunion near Martinsburg. Jesse L. Steward, operator of a landfill...

Herald of July 15, 1921 Paul Edgar Treese, four-year-old son of Mr. And Mrs. Charles Treese of Roaring Spring, died at Nason Hospital after being run down near his home along the Woodbury Pike. He crossed between two cars going in opposite...

Herald of July 11, 1996 Sollenberger Farms of Curryville and Stoney Hollow Jerseys of Martinsburg were named Dairies of Distinction through the Northern Dairy Farm Beautification Program. A powerful hailstorm ripped through a section of farmland in...

Herald of July 18, 1946 John Raymond Rhodes, Piney Creek farmer, died at Nason Hospital after drinking poison which he apparently thought was water while threshing at his farm. Eddie King, 9, of Salemville, wrote a friendly note and stuck it in the...

Herald of July 14, 2011 Martinsburg’s manager and borough council invited the public to an open house of the new borough building July 16. The building, while complete and occupied, is still receiving finishing touches. A six-inch-diameter...

Pete and Carol Imler of Roaring Spring invite those interested to an evening of music, prayer, food and fellowship at their home in Roaring Spring. The evening will begin between 6:30 and 7 p.m. on Friday, July 16. A local guest speaker will join to...

The Bedford County Historical Society has announced the “Historian of the Years” awards for 2019 and 2020. The 2019 winners, David and Amy Snyder, will be recognized for their renovation of the “Loy Mansion” and research on the history of...

AUGUST 2021 MEETING The regular August monthly meeting for the North Woodbury Township Board of Supervisors has been rescheduled from Thursday, August 5, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. to Thursday August 19, 2021 at 6:00p.m. at the Township office which is... Full story