In planning for the 26/27 school year, Hancock County is aware that it is over in personnel according to the State Formula. Superintendent Dan Enich informed the Board at Monday’s meeting instead of looking at the staffing in April and May which had been the…
Chester City Council, Mayor Ed Wedgeworth and City Clerk Tara Ayers can congratulate themselves on a “job well done” as they conclude the last of the dilapidated houses being torn down in the City. Wedgewood reported to Chester City Council at the Monday October 13th…
By Mark Patterson Golf has long considered itself some pastoral bastion of honor. Players embrace nature while meticulously counting their own strokes, penalize themselves for otherwise unseen infractions, and supposedly practice the sort of poised, considerate conduct that does the ancient game proud. There’s no…
………Things finally were looking up in Weirton and Hancock County with Form Energy building a plant and employing workers. Both local and State officials praised the State’s Development Office for snagging the battery plant to be located on the former 55-acre Weirton Steel property. There…
9/1 Jasmine Griffin, East Liverpool Public Intox/ Trespassing 9/3 Deborah Metalik, New Cumberland DUI 1st offence 9/6 Gary Jackson, Jr. Toronto, OH DUI 3rd, obstruction 9/12 Ethan Johnson, Wellsburg Fleeing Felony, DWLS, DUI 9/14 Anthony Rocchio, Weirton Warrant 9/16 Clint McKinnon, Chester Public Intoxication, Failure…
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – After watching his brother, Randy Bookshar, go through successful treatment and surgery for prostate cancer at the WVU Cancer Institute, Barry Bookshar, 75 of Brownsville, Pennsylvania, decided to get screened for prostate cancer. He had no symptoms but figured it would be beneficial to at least get his…
The Hancock County Board of Education met in special session Tuesday night to consider the West Virginia Department of Education Compliance Review suggestions. All suggestions were approved. Superintendent Dan Enich said the review was to build in standing agenda options; require documentation and analysis…
Hancock County has received $1.6 million in Opioid Prevention Funding. The money was received after the County joined in a lawsuit against the pharmaceutical companies who had targeted West Virginia as market to distribute opioids while not making physicians and pharmacists fully aware of their…
The City of New Cumberland will the Hancock County Commissioners and Board of Education in negotiating a PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) agreement with Current Hydro, LLC. Council passed the first reading of Ordinance 25-006 at Monday’s meeting and will meet again Oct. 20th…