Chester City Council, Mayor Ed Wedgeworth and City Clerk Tara Ayers can congratulate themselves on a “job well done” as they conclude the last of the dilapidated houses being torn down in the City. Wedgewood reported to Chester City Council…
By Mark Patterson Golf has long considered itself some pastoral bastion of honor. Players embrace nature while meticulously counting their own strokes, penalize themselves for otherwise unseen infractions, and supposedly practice the sort of poised, considerate conduct that does the…
………Things finally were looking up in Weirton and Hancock County with Form Energy building a plant and employing workers. Both local and State officials praised the State’s Development Office for snagging the battery plant to be located on the former…
9/1 Jasmine Griffin, East Liverpool Public Intox/ Trespassing 9/3 Deborah Metalik, New Cumberland DUI 1st offence 9/6 Gary Jackson, Jr. Toronto, OH DUI 3rd, obstruction 9/12 Ethan Johnson, Wellsburg Fleeing Felony, DWLS, DUI 9/14 Anthony Rocchio, Weirton Warrant 9/16 Clint…
The Chester-Newell Sportsman Club is offering two Hunter Education safety classes on October 26th at 1pm-4pm for those who took an online class like the free NRA course but still needs the safe gun handling and test. Students must bring…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – After watching his brother, Randy Bookshar, go through successful treatment and surgery for prostate cancer at the WVU Cancer Institute, Barry Bookshar, 75 of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, decided to get screened for prostate cancer. He had no symptoms but figured it would be beneficial…
Mary Ann Tucker, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, entered into the loving arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Saturday, October 4, 2025.Born on September 3, 1955, in Steubenville, she was the daughter of Walter and…
The Hancock County Board of Education met in special session Tuesday night to consider the West Virginia Department of Education Compliance Review suggestions. All suggestions were approved. Superintendent Dan Enich said the review was to build in standing agenda…
Hancock County has received $1.6 million in Opioid Prevention Funding. The money was received after the County joined in a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies who had targeted West Virginia as market to distribute opioids while not making physicians and…
The City of New Cumberland will the Hancock County Commissioners and Board of Education in negotiating a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) agreement with Current Hydro, LLC. Council passed the first reading of Ordinance 25-006 at Monday’s meeting and…