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Weir High Seniors Receive Awards, Honors, Scholarships

In its annual senior recognition ceremony, Weir High School honored the Class of 2025, its 109th graduating class, on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, at 8 a.m. in the Carl Hamill Fieldhouse before families, faculty, and eleventh grade students. Principal Ted Arneault called the ceremony to…

JDRIV Career Center to Offer Multi-Media Program

The John D. Rockefeller 4 Career Center will be offering a new program for the 2025-2026 school year.  Multimedia Publishing is a one-year program referring to the creation and distribution of content that includes a combination of various media types, such as text, images, audio,…

Board of Education Recognizes TSPARK Business Competition Winners

Two Hancock County Students were recognized Tuesday night by the Hancock County Board of Education for “Business Pitch” competition placement. The Ed Venture group in partnership with the West Virginia Dept. of Education sponsors SPARKWV, an entrepreneurship-inspired competition, designed to spark the creativity of West…

Bid Awarded for OGMS Pyrite Project

The Hancock Board of Education awarded the bid for work needed at the facilities at its meeting Tuesday night. Jim Davis Enterprises bid for catch basins, drainage, pipe installation, site work and lot paving at the transportation department was for $348,139.00. Superintendent Dan Enich said…

Highest Honor Students Named for Class of 2025

The 62ndgraduating class of Oak Glen High School is comprised of 123 students.   The highest honor students for the class of 2025 are: Caleb Ernest Cody Bellville is 18 years of age and the son of Philip Bellville and Amanda Grimm of Newell.  He…

White Receives Award for Program

Zachary White, 4H agent and WVU Extension agent, received an award from the Make It Shine program of the Dept. of Environmental Protection as “teacher of the year.” White taught a class on nature, conservation and the environment to third grade students at Allison Elementary.…

OGMS STUDENTS RAISE FUNDS

Oak Glen Middle School Student Council held a Penny Brigade and raised over $900. Half of that amount goes to Student Council and the other half was donated to the Hancock Brooke Family Resource Center, a group which provides a variety of supportive services to…

Golden Horseshoe Winners Recognized by Board of Education

Three “Knights of the Golden Horseshoe” were recognized by the Hancock County Board of Education at Monday, May 12th’s meeting. Camden Firman and Amelia Kampmeyer from Oak Glen Middle School and Julian Williams from Weir Middle School were 8th grade winners in the Golden Horseshoe…