The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office with assistance from the WV Alcohol Beverage Control Administration, WV Tax Division, Hancock/Brooke/Weirton Drug Task Force and the Weirton Police Dept. performed a two-day operation in Hancock County, WV business. This included compliance checks, underage…
On 03/30/2026 the Hancock County Sheriffs Office conducted a search warrant at 60 Doberman Drive, Chester, WV 26047. The search warrant stems from a joint investigation with the Pennsylvania State Police where Industrial Development Advantage LLC (Former First Energy) reported…
Following the signing of Governor Patrick Morrissey’s legislation repealing the state’s transfer rule, the WVSSAC Board of Control has announced a new transfer rule to govern high school athletics in West Virginia. The repeal cleared the way for the WVSSAC…
Every time I drive down Station Hill, the changing landscape makes me realize progress has come to our small town. When Station Hill was but a brick road traversed by Model T’s, the landscape was pretty and the safety issue…
A second meeting with Hancock Superintendent of Schools Walter Saunders with Hancock County Sheriff Scott Gittings and Weirton Police Chief Charlie Kush resulted in the Police Resource Officers being returned to the original number of one police resource officer per…
RONNIE JONES This concludes the County Commission series on Know the Candidate. One Democrat – Brianne Bates, and two Republicans, Eron Chek and Ronnie Jones, will vie for the single Butler District County Commission. With no opposition in the Democratic…
Once in a manager’s seminar at Mountaineer, those present were encouraged, as usual, to wake up and ask questions of the speaker. Since nobody (aside from said speaker(s)) at all wanted to be there one nano-second longer than necessary-we all…
(This week in 1978, Roberta Bunny, wife of the famous Easter Bunny, hopped into my column at the Hancock County Courier. Roberta and I touch base every few years to see how we each are doing. This year’s visit follows:)…
A column from Chairman Charlotte Lane Filing a case with the PSC is simple Filing a complaint with the Public Service Commission is easy.You can take one of two routes.The simplest is the informal complaint.We receive thousands of these complaints…
Governmental decisions made in haste without all the necessary information are rarely good decisions. The County Commissioners are stewards of the County finances and that responsibility extends to the distribution of the Opioid Substance Abuse Funds. During incredibly tight financial…