New Cumberland City Council discussed the problem of a business on North Chestnut Street that is collecting appliances in the ravine behind the store and around the store. The large number of appliances are sitting outside in the weather and are creating an eyesore on…
Hancock County Commission should do its due diligence before awarding opioid funds to Family Care Excellence and exercise extreme caution before handing out large sums of money. Commissioner Tommy Ogden exhibited common sense when he urged the Commission to take a closer look at the…
The Cleavers, we were not. For starters, mom never owned a pearl necklace and didn’t serve cold, frothy pitchers of milk. She drank. And not anything that came from a cow. I do think my dad had a cardigan sweater (no pipe), but the women…
A notice of litigation has been delivered to the State Board of Education by Attorney Eric Frankovitch on behalf of his client, former Hancock County Superintendent Dan Enich. A civil complaint outlining the claims is attached in the communique to the Board. The complaint has…
Following the signing of Governor Patrick Morrissey’s legislation repealing the state’s transfer rule, the WVSSAC Board of Control has announced a new transfer rule to govern high school athletics in West Virginia. The repeal cleared the way for the WVSSAC to promulgate transfer guidelines through…
Every time I drive down Station Hill, the changing landscape makes me realize progress has come to our small town. When Station Hill was but a brick road traversed by Model T’s, the landscape was pretty and the safety issue didn’t exist. That changed and Station…
A second meeting with Hancock Superintendent of Schools Walter Saunders with Hancock County Sheriff Scott Gittings and Weirton Police Chief Charlie Kush resulted in the Police Resource Officers being returned to the original number of one police resource officer per school. The only change is…
Once in a manager’s seminar at Mountaineer, those present were encouraged, as usual, to wake up and ask questions of the speaker. Since nobody (aside from said speaker(s)) at all wanted to be there one nano-second longer than necessary-we all had ACTUAL work to do-any…
(This week in 1978, Roberta Bunny, wife of the famous Easter Bunny, hopped into my column at the Hancock County Courier. Roberta and I touch base every few years to see how we each are doing. This year’s visit follows:) ….Easter nears and It’s that…