STAY UP TO DATE ON CANDIDATES FILING FOR LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL OFFICE. HOMETOWN NEWS WILL UPDATE THE FILING DAILY. BE IN THE KNOW ABOUT THE 2024 ELECTION. HANCOCK COUNTY Tony Lascola (R) Grant County Commissioner Tommy Ogden (R) Grant County Commissioner Steven E. Dragisich…
……I feel like my head is full of random thoughts and questions, so I’m sharing them with you. My good friend, the late Hugh Tate, used to do a column “Things I know, see or hear” full of observations. Hugh was one of the best…
Former New Cumberland resident Doug Pettit will be honored January 27, 2024 by the San Diego Defense Lawyers as the “Top Defense Attorney” in San Diego County at the group’s annual gala. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency in LaJolla where the…
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,…
A hydroelectric power plant may be coming to the New Cumberland Locks and Dam. HOMETOWN NEWS has learned that on Sept 28, 2020 “Current Project 19, LLC” filed an application for a preliminary permit with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposing to study the feasibility of…
……..And here I sit again on New Year’s Eve. There are reports of parties and dancing even drinking and frivolity. But, in all my years, I never saw it. Once I was old enough to go drinking and dancing, I was already a young mother. …
While times have often been tough for the community author Donald Dale Jackson referred to as a “sleepy, little river huggin town of fire department picnics and car chasing dogs,” 2023 saw the culmination of years of efforts to upgrade both the centuries-old water and…
CHARLESTON – State regulators on Thursday agreed to reopen the case of a troubledNorthern Panhandle utility over funding issues.The petition involves The Newell Company, which was found by the Public ServiceCommission of West Virginia to be a failing utility in 2022. The Commission issued anorder…
Hancock County ended the year finalizing preparations for a shared election with the City of Weirton and prepared for the new year by authorizing committee and personnel appointments for 2024. The effort to consolidate municipal and state and county elections whenever feasible has resulted in…