By Mark Patterson I hate rain. Who wants to stay indoors or endure getting drenched? And it takes about two droplets to constrict my twitchy bronchial tubes, making every breath an effort, sometimes for up to a week. Bring the…
…….Last week’s column unleashed pretty vitriolic comments about my thinking on Freedom of the Press as it related to Jimmy Kimmel’s removal from late night television. I expected negative comments, but I expected those comments to be aimed at my…
David J. Stefl, a cherished resident of East Liverpool, passed away peacefully on Friday, September 26, 2025, at the Calcutta Health Care Center after a brief illness. At 90 years young, David was born in Smith Ferry, Pennsylvania, on August…
In anticipation of the hydroelectric plant coming to New Cumberland, the Hancock County Commission and the Board of Education have signed off on a lease agreement for land Current Hydro will have a 40 -year lease on and for the…
The Hancock Brooke Young Professionals will join communities in all 50 states to provide free Naxalone (NARCAN) and training. NARCAN can reverse opioid overdose – and together we can save lives. Since this movement began, more than 84,000 doses have…
WVU Medicine Weirton Medical Center purchased and provided new lifesaving Stop the Bleed kits to help keep our community safer. This week, Hancock and Brooke County West Virginia State Police troopers trained with the equipment right here at our hospital. …
The 2025 5K Race will launch the Riverfest Saturday. The race starts at 9 a.m. with signup at 8 a.m. The race has been ongoing since 2014 and initially began as a fundraiser for Oak Glen’s Physical Education Department so…
Oak Glen High School’s 2025 Homecoming court includes, from left, front row, sophomore attendant Lucy Ford, freshman attendants Charlee Fisher and Karter Turley, and sophomore attendant Layla Skavenski; from left, back row, junior attendant Kendall Six, senior queen candidates Emma…
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is co-leading with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman a coalition of 26 states in a comment letter to the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supporting the agency’s proposed reversal of…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Jim Patterson worried he had COVID after the onset of night sweats and swollen lymph nodes in his neck, shoulders, and armpits during the height of the pandemic. Afraid he might miss work, Patterson, a trucker from Cumberland, Maryland, visited urgent care and…