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Baskets Donated

Members of the Paris Presbyterian Church made a special delivery at WMC just in time for Easter. Karen Cowan and Joel Peterson, Director of Church Outreach, delivered Easter baskets to nursing departments as a token of appreciation for the work they do each day. Accepting…

Reading Nook by Kirsten Pierce

But we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. If you’re a procrastinator, we still have both the federal and state tax forms and instruction booklets here for you. Time’s running out, though so you better hurry! We can also find whatever additional forms or…

Reflections by Jeremy Alger

Are you ready to be shocked? You’ve been warned. I am about to type something that you never thought a nice, thoughtful pastor would write.Jesus doesn’t want you to help other people.I’ll wait while you read that again and try to figure out what in…

Our History & Our Heritage By Bill Kiefer

Being somewhat new to this business of writing a newspaper column, I may tend to focus too long on a single subject, or get sidetracked easily. Truthfully, though what I am writing isn’t “news.” I mean it’s not like it happened yesterday. I will leave…

AND THEN AGAIN by Tamara Pettit

…..Not sure if my gullibility (or my knowledge that no idea is too ridiculous to turn into a bill and introduce in the WV Legislature) resulted in me thinking for a moment a bill introduced last week was for real. It was April 1 so…

New Cumberland Council Action

**New Cumberland city council passed the second reading of the ordinance which will make improvements to the water sewage system possible.**Approved a 2500 donation to swanky memorial library along with providing new bricks for the circle in Eden Valley**Discussed use of the American Rescue Act…

Deputy Chief Appointed

A City Cleanup is planned to coincide West Virginia Make it Shine Day on May 15. Dustin Lang, chair of the Beautification Committee, has submitted a list of areas to be addressed and is asking for volunteers to assist in the cleanup. Permission has been…

Commissioners Seek Input

In other business, the Commissioners:**Approved the donation of a 2011 Ford Crown Vic Sheriff’s Cruiser to the Lumberport Police Department;**Approved a Memorandum of Agreement for FY 21/22 for the Hancock County Extension Office;**Appointed Jeremiah Jay Squires to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Reserves;**Approved Prosecutor Stephen Dragisich’s…