The City of New Cumberland put the municipal/city building up for auction at the end of February./1st of March. This marks the second time the property has been placed on online auction. Last time the City failed to get the minimum reserve. This time,…
In December, Lion Peggy Rocchio Lee was presented the Leonard Jarrett Award and Lion Alan Lee was presented with a Melvin Jones Fellowship! Both very deserving of this recognition. Lion Leonard Jarrett was recognized by the Lions of West Virginia as the founder of the West Virginia Lions Sight…
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 employees of the bank.
Strangely enough, memories don’t always center around gifts, but favorite people now gone. When I asked Shannon her favorite memory, she answered in a nanosecond. Elby’s, her beloved Papa, her brother, Doug, and the five boisterous Webster clan. When Tamera, Susan, Michael, Matthew and Brian…
The family efforts of Tamara, Shannon and Abbi that bring you HOMETOWN NEWS each week wish you a blessed Christmas Eve. While Christmas Day is a time for rejoicing, Christmas Eve is a time for reflecting and remembering Christmas past and our loved ones who…
A “fractured family” Christmas Memory Getting Doug’s memories made me pause and remember Christmas of the past. First of all, I was so lucky to have a sister who was in charge of everything and everybody…..or so it seemed at the time. I think we…
My favorite Christmas memory was in 1978. That was the year, on Christmas Eve, that wemoved back to New Cumberland from Putnam County, WV. We had bought what was known asthe “ Brandon House” on Ridge Avenue and Ed was starting a new job after…
My holiday memory is more of a collage. A collection of warm memories of spending the daywith all of our family. The day always started at our house. When I was young, it was in ourhouse on Cemetery Road, which was particularly appropriate for us…
My favorite Christmas memory is singing Silent Night to candlelight in church on Christmas Eve. It is a wonderful reminder of how, even among the chaos of the world, God is there, and He provides a stillness, hope, and peace that no one else can…