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Lash Signs with West Liberty University

Brayley Lash will be furthering her academic and softball career at West Liberty University. Brayley is a two time All State Honorable Mention in West Virginia. She was also a member of the Sectional and Regional Championship team in 2025. She will be entering her…

Hancock Schools Rescue Bill Stalls in Senate Education

HB 4574, designed to provide funds and set criteria to bail Hancock County Schools out of its fiscal emergency, made the agenda this morning (Jan. 27) in Senate Education. The bill is double referenced and if passed out of the Education Committee will then face…

Patterson’s Perspective

by Mark Patterson I have this recurrent dream- a waking nightmare, really-that I’m walking through long, foreboding corridors. Symmetrical and clearly man-made, their seeming indifference to my presence is strangely belied by the dim lights left on for me, as if somehow, I’ve been expected.…

Joe Swan Receives Outstanding Mountaineer Award from WVU

New Cumberland native Joe Swan is one of ten WVU employees recognized with an “Outstanding Mountaineer” award. 2026 marks the inaugural recognition of employees deemed to go above and beyond in their service to the University. In 2025, Swan was the recipient of the Mountaineer…

And Then Again……….by Tamara

……The snow today just keeps coming and the much anticipated January 26 meeting of the Board of Education has been cancelled with a meeting date yet-to-be-determined. The January 26th meeting was when we were promised the big reveal on what really happened with the Hancock…

Hancock County Commission

The final approval from the National Parks Service for CEMCO Inc. and the Hancock County Commission to enter into the Kennedy Marina Concessionaire Agreement has been received. Commission President Eron Chek noted that the Commission had previously received administrative review approval, but this constitutes formal…

School Rescue Legislation Slows in the Senate

HB 4575 and HB 4574, which provides assistance to County School Districts who are in financial distress, encountered a slower pace when they crossed the rotunda to the Senate. While Majority Leader and 1st District Delegate Pat McGeehan was successful in getting the Constitutional rule…

Patterson’s Perspective by Mark Patterson

If living in homes that have skirting had long condemned me to the outskirts of society, constructing 2,000 square feet of community acceptance did not, as the lads from Liverpool famously intoned “come easy.” At all. Gassed up by imagined stigma and compelled to provide…