Newell’s Fun Day featured the most unique parade which parade goers claimed was the funnest and wetest Saturday. Hometown News editor Shannon Sayre was able to capture each entry before they fired their water guns. As soon as she snapped the picture they fired and…
The Oak Glen High School Class of 1969 will hold its 55-year reunion on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at the Badgely Pavilion at Chester City Park. The event will begin with a social hour at 5:00 pm followed by a buffet dinner at 6:30…
The next New Cumberland Lions Club Pulled Pork Takeout event is scheduled for Saturday, July 27, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the parking lot of the Swaney Memorial Library in New Cumberland. A Pulled Pork Sandwich – with the pulled pork provided by…
Wild and wonderful West Virginia will transform into Wet, Wild & Wonderful West Virginia on August 3 thanks to an idea brought to our State from a resident who relocated from Idaho. Heather Culig who along with her husband , Matt Wicks, relocated to Newell…
HOMETOWN NEWS will now appear in your e-mail twice a week. While readers could catch up on local news and features at the beginning of the week, starting next week, they will also be able to do so on Thursday. The popularity of the newsletter…
The city of New Cumberland and the NC Volunteers have announced the Yard of the Month winner for June. The winning yard belongs to Miriam Hess of Third Avenue. Her tidy yard is filled with flowering shrubs and perennials all along the front of…
Summer just got a whole lot more fun in New Cumberland! Children visiting New Cumberland’s two playgrounds will soon have even more playground equipment to enjoy. A combination of City funds ($13,500.00), Park Board funds ($13,500.00) and a Pugliese Grant ($15,000.00) the City was recently…
Adequate ingress and egress to Second and Third Avenue in New Cumberland to allow emergency vehicles access was discussed at Monday’s City Council meeting. Mayor Will White said a recent situation where an emergency vehicle had difficulty making the turn onto the avenue has shown…
Chester Mayor Ed Wedgewood and City Council are aware that their picturesque hometown has detriments that need addressed and they took action to remedy those problems. From feral cats roaming the neighborhoods to a growing population of rats on Virginia Avenue caused by unkempt properties…