While times have often been tough for the community author Donald Dale Jackson referred to as a “sleepy, little river huggin town of fire department picnics and car chasing dogs,” 2023 saw the culmination of years of efforts to upgrade…
Robert Leo (Bob) Appeldorn, 96 years old, of Chester, WV, passed away on Thursday, December 28, 2003, at East Liverpool City Hospital.Bob was born April 19, 1927, in Huntington, WV, to the late Leo and Elizabeth Appeldorn.He is a member…
Hancock County Savings Bank’s Chester and Weirton branches collected Christmas gifts for children in need over the past several weeks as part of the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree project. Shown here is Captain Gene Hunt accepting the donated presents from…
CHARLESTON – State regulators on Thursday agreed to reopen the case of a troubledNorthern Panhandle utility over funding issues.The petition involves The Newell Company, which was found by the Public ServiceCommission of West Virginia to be a failing utility in…
Hancock County ended the year finalizing preparations for a shared election with the City of Weirton and prepared for the new year by authorizing committee and personnel appointments for 2024. The effort to consolidate municipal and state and county elections…
Robert Lewis, 73, of East Liverpool, passed, on Monday, December 25, 2023, at Mercy Health St. Elizabeth Youngstown. Born, on February 9, 1950, in East Liverpool, he was the son of the late Clarence D. and Joyce L. Miller Lewis.…
Bill Lawson, 92 of New Cumberland passed peacefully at his home while in the care of his loving family on Monday, December 25, 2023. He was the son of the late Albert and Lela Sweat Lawson. Bill was born in…
Design underway for permanent repairs to Jennings Randolph Bridge Contractors Modjeski & Masters are designing plans for permanent repairs to the Jennings Randolph Bridge in Chester, as West Virginia Division of Highways (WVDOH) bridge engineers prepare to reopen the span. The bridge,…
Tiffany Morrison, 34, of East Liverpool passed away Monday, December 18, 2023 at her residence. She was born October 18, 1989 in Goppingin, Germany, the daughter of David Sean Murray of New Cumberland and Ruth (Bill) Crain Mahley of Kiln,…
Christmas Day Stabbing On December 25, 2023 at 8:31 pm the Hancock Co 911 Dispatch Center received a frantic call that a man had been “stabbed in the belly” at 701 Maxwell Avenue, Chester,WV. The caller, identified as Kevin J…