The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for Hampshire County and surrounding areas from 1 p.m. on Friday afternoon until Saturday at 1 a.m. Expect 1 to 3 inches of snow accumulation with freezing temperatures in the late afternoon through this evening. Watch out for…
The new John Blue Bridge opened to 2-way traffic last Wednesday, almost 6 years after the project was announced and 2 years after construction began.
Hard freeze ruins experimental crop, but help arrives
CHARLESTON — The leadership of the State Firemen’s Association — which also happens to be 3 Hampshire County volunteer firefighters — was working the state capitol for 2 days last week to find funding to support their cause.
CAPON BRIDGE — The Farmer’s Daughter remains top hog at the state level as they celebrate yet another year of being WV Living’s “Best Burger.”
SUNRISE SUMMIT — Hampshire High School’s DECA program collected yet another honor for the 2021-22 school year: they were awarded the Membership Campaign, Promotion Campaign and Community Service Campaign.
With Covid-19 case numbers rising daily with no clear end in sight, there couldn’t be a better time for Valley Health to distribute free at-home tests here.
Parents are flooded with paperwork every single day of the year. But this year, they absolutely want to keep track of one key letter — Letter 6419, to be sent to you by none other than the Internal Revenue Service.
CAPON BRIDGE — Fire destroyed a house on Schafernaker Mountain Thursday morning.
Jan. 18: Roger Leroy Haymond Jr., 41, of Romney was arrested for DUI w/minor.
A Mineral County man has jumped into the race for 88th Delegate District just days before the close of filing.
ROMNEY — For the 1st time since 1999, the gym floor at Hampshire High School will be sanded and refinished, the board decided at Monday night’s meeting.
ROMNEY — A 2-month discussion about hiring attorney Logan Mantz as a full-time grant writer for the next 2 years came to an unexpected conclusion Friday.
MOOREFIELD — A cohort of instructors at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College are the 1st to participate in an internal peer-review system that has led to 2 courses earning Eastern Online Course Excellence certification.
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CHARLESTON — A group of Republican lawmakers in West Virginia is trying to pass a law forbidding mask mandates in K-12 schools and restricting districts from requiring COVID-19 testing for people who don’t have symptoms.
Conservation experts in the state are expanding a forest mapping tool to assess the impact of development on thousands of acres of public lands.
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Friday questioned a bill moving through the Republican-led Legislature that would prohibit mask mandates in public schools in response to the coronavirus, saying that he will wait on the proposal’s final outcome before deciding how to act.
I’m pretty sure that sometimes you read a sentence or paragraph or (shudder) an entire column I wrote and would take exception with what I’m about to announce, but truly I consider myself a wordsmith.
Too many West Virginians are dying from drug overdoses. We have been in this crisis for years and unfortunately, according to new government data, the crisis is growing.
The Eastern West Virginia Economic alliance met in Charleston this week. Joining us remotely were Eileen Johnson from the Hampshire County Development Authority and Lyn Goodwin from the Morgan County Development Authority.
It’s been another great year in the war on climate change. With a combination of forceful inaction, concentrated inattention, strenuous ignorance of facts, strategic amnesia and just plain orneriness we have once again succeeded in not losing to this implacable enemy which many of us still b…
What is the definition of dogma? Various sources give slightly different definitions, but it basically means (according to vocabulary.com): “the doctrine of belief in a religion or a political system.”
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CHARLESTON — The Juvenile Justice Commission, originally created to investigate a tragedy, has worked for a decade to ensure the state’s court system fulfills its duty to provide justice in a way that protects the children over which it has jurisdiction, speakers said last week at a celebrat…
ROMNEY — Eight area residents have been charged with 223 hunting crimes involving at least 27 antlered deer in Hampshire, Mineral and Grant counties as well as Maryland.
SPRINGFIELD — Two-way traffic could return on the John Blue Bridge as early as today, the Division of Highways said Friday.
Covid-19 took its place among the leading causes of death in Hampshire County — and is undoubtedly behind the rising number of deaths reported here in 2021.
The race is on in the new delegate districts.
ROMNEY — Now that Old Man Winter has found Hampshire County, he’s planning to make a couple more visits here this week.
1st in a series on our love affair in history and how it shades our progress
Covid-19 is stretching Valley Health’s resources to new pandemic highs.
The power plant at nearby Mount Storm comes up as 1 of the 100 dirtiest in the U.S., a new study based on government data shows.
Breezeline, the new name for Atlantic Broadband, says it is tapping into the new Affordable Connectivity Program to provide needy households a $30-a-month discount on Internet service.
CPS shortages, lack of data plague system as demand rises
KEYSER — The annual Mineral County Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Festival planning committee is now accepting proposals for presentations.
ROMNEY — Fire consumed a garage and at least 1 vehicle in it Sunday afternoon just north of town.
WINCHESTER — Trex Company is set to break ground on what will be the company’s new global headquarters.
ROMNEY — The town is preparing to ask the state for home rule authority in 5 areas.
The Romney High School Class of 1964 will gather on Saturday, June 4 — the date of the annual RHS reunion.
CAPON BRIDGE — For the 1st time in 18 months, every office in Capon Bridge’s town government has been filled. At the Jan. 11 Town Council meeting, David McMaster was appointed to a seat on the council and Tracey Grassi agreed to serve as town recorder.
New Covid variant detected here as county sees 2 more deaths
MOOREFIELD — Donna Davy, an art instructor at Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, recently earned national recognition from Artist’s Magazine for a portrait of her pet parrot.
CHARLESTON — A North Carolina steelmaker will build a $2.7 billion mill in West Virginia, creating an estimated 800 manufacturing jobs, Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday.
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