Competitors from the three Triple Crown stakes—including Grade I Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike—and the top three finishers in the Grade III Indiana Derby are among the 31 nominees for the $500,000 Grade III West Virginia Derby, which will be held Aug. 6 at Mountaineer…
New Cumberland. – Students in Hancock County will have the opportunity to eat breakfast and lunch at school at no cost through a program called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). The CEP was enacted as a result of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act and provides…
Christmas in July has been going on at Lynn Murray Memorial Library as of late. We met on July 16 and made ornaments. The kids were able to make 4 or 5 different ornaments for their trees this year. We had wooden wreaths with…
The Hancock County Board of Education took the following action at its July 26th meeting: **Approved the Police Resource Officer (PRO) agreement with the City of Weirton Police Department on a 4-0 vote. Three PRO officers will be supplied by the Department in the upcoming…
Members of the Hancock County Board of Education approved necessary funding for the Weir High Softball and Baseball Field and will take a more active role by attending updates and construction meetings on the progress. The initial bids for the project came in in…
The Grinch joined Miss Connie from the Lynn Murray Memorial Library for Children’s Day at Laurel Hollow Park. The annual event features a variety of activities for children.
……Judging from its agenda, it appears that the newly-comprised Board of Education is getting down to business tomorrow (Monday) night. The Board has already moved it’s meeting to 6:30 p.m. to make the meetings more accessible to the public, many of whom found their work…
Another Fourth of July event for me is to watch the very long movie “Gettysburg.”Obviously, the movie is named for the battle fought over the first three days of July1863, which went a long way towards the ultimate resolution of the AmericanCivil War. Is it…
The building at the corner of High Street and Veteran’s Boulevard in New Manchester will once again be home to a business. The closure of Franco’s, where owner Dave Ireland operated a pizza and sub carry-out for 17 years, had many community members mourning the…