……A free press is even more important today then it was under previous Presidential administrations. And, nobody knows that more than the journalists covering the news in what is proving to be an increasingly volatile climate. In a blatant generalization Trump stated last week that…
Hancock County students may spend as much as two-hours-per-day on their school bus. The school bus driver may spend more time with a student than a teacher on any given day meaning that school bus experience has an wide-ranging impact. Ted Arneault, Transportation coordinator for…
WHEELING, W.VA – West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC) is proud to announce that its Emergency Medical Services Professions–Paramedic program has been awarded accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). This recognition, effective September 19, 2025, affirms that WVNCC’s Paramedic…
CHARLESTON, WV — National School Bus Safety Week is Monday, October 20, 2025, through Saturday, October 24, 2025. The West Virginia Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP) is teaming up with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) urging drivers to slow down…
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…
………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…
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…