WHEELING, W.VA – West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC) is now accepting nominations for its 2025 Distinguished Alumni of the Year award. This prestigious recognition, sponsored by the WVNCC Foundation, celebrates the achievements of exceptional alumni who have made significant…
CHARLESTON – The Public Service Commission of West Virginia on Tuesday adopted recommendations of its Pole Attachment Task Force to settle disputes on how companies should share utility poles. The action is considered essential to the expansion of broadband services…
The Hancock County School Board approved the calendar for the coming school year at Monday’s meeting. While the Board had posted the Calendar online, no comments on any desired changes had been received. Looking to the remainder of this school…
The Hancock County Museum on Ridge Avenue in New Cumberland is a house full of history. Walking through the doors of the Oliver Marshall home, now the designated museum for Hancock County, one can relive the history of the…
Majority Leader Pat McGeehan (D-1st) is one of ten sponsors of a HB 2712, which was introduced Friday. The bill removes the exemptions for rape and incents contained in the abortion bill passed last session and signed into law by…
We discover as we travel through life that some things never change. Those things are the anchor that stabilizes our feeling of stability. That feeling of stability extends to the workings of our government. But, we find much to our…
Helen Wright,85, of New Cumberland, peacefully on February 15, went home to be with the lord. She was born in Hundred WV the daughter of the late Michael and Laura (Sapp) Stewart. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death…
On Wednesday, February 19, 2025, members of the Hancock-Brooke-Weirton DTF (HBWDDTF) as well as the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office and West Virginia State Police conducted multiple search warrants in the Newell, Hancock County, WV area. These search warrants were executed…
Sandra L. “Sandy” Emler, 76, of New Cumberland, passed away on Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at the Weirton Medical Center following a lengthy illness. Sandy was born in Monaca, Pennsylvania, on October 17, 1948, to the late Clyde and Mildred…
Gary Linn Evans, 80, of New Manchester, WV passed away Saturday, February 15, 2025 at Valley Hospice Steubenville, OH.He was born December 15, 1944 in Hundred, WV a son of the late Rexford Claude & Elizabeth (Cole) Evans. He is…