John Hicks wins the ASUN conference championship in weight toss with a throw of 19.09m.
John Hicks wins the ASUN conference championship in weight toss with a throw of 19.09m.
The DHHR Saturday Covid map was tardy for over 3 hours however once the map was released Hampshire County landed in the Orange zone. Although infection rates trended slightly upward at the end of the week, it was not enough to put Hampshire in the Red.
The Division of Motor Vehicles office that closed in Romney on Wednesday will not reopen at its new Keyser-area location until next Wednesday.
After 20 years in the same location, the Division of Motor Vehicles office in Romney is apparently closing today.
Texas’s agony has turned to Hampshire’s pain at the gas pump.
CAPON BRIDGE — “We feel lucky that the Cacapon River is one of the cleanest in West Virginia,” the Friends of the Cacapon River states on its web page — and the group plans to keep it that way.
Attorney General Morrisey Reaches $320K Medicaid Fraud Settlement with In-State Hospital
The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind will hold a virtual public hearing next Wednesday, March 3, on its 10-year Comprehensive Educational Facility Plan.
The Hampshire County Community Foundation is now accepting funding and scholarship applications for spring 2021.
Feb. 15: Amy Leann Bowman, 44, of Augusta was arrested for Possession w/intent to Deliver (Fentynal/Heroin).
The message on the Hampshire County Sheriff’s Facebook page Thursday evening was deadly serious, but couldn’t help but make readers smile.
SUNRISE SUMMIT — The former Weimer Chevrolet building is under contract just 7 weeks after it was put up for sale.
ROMNEY — The Hampshire County Development Authority awarded the contract for asbestos abatement in the old Hampshire Memorial Hospital building to Morgantown-based Anderson Excavating at last Wednesday’s board meeting.
CHARLESOTN — AARP West Virginia state leaders have set an ambitious legislative agenda for the organization this year.
ROMNEY — The Hampshire County Development Authority’s board was updated last Wednesday on projects at the county’s 2 business parks.
ROMNEY — Starting in April, Valley Health will be offering their Diabetes Management and Prevention program virtually for folks interested in making healthy lifestyle changes.
Amid the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic this winter, Warm the Children did what it always does: clothe needy kids.
CUMBERLAND — A play that was limited to 1 virtual performance last November is planning a 5-performance run in March.
ROMNEY — The Depot in Romney is filled to the brim with memories.
CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has ordered the loosening of pandemic restrictions on businesses after a decline in coronavirus deaths and cases, and he sought the return of all elementary and middle school students to in-person learning.
MOOREFIELD — For the 2nd time in a year, Eastern has lined up 3 finalists to be its next president.
MOOREFIELD — A Zoon session to help nonprofits with fundraising will be hosted March 11 by Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College.
ROMNEY — Logan Mantz, with the Capon Bridge Revitalization Group, presented updates on the Capon School Street project to the school board at their meeting Monday.
This particular act was broken down into 6 separate sections, with the 1st section describing potential federal laws or acts that this act would nullify in any said efforts to have them enforced within Newton County.
The 2021 Session of the 85th Legislature has been like no other that I have ever experienced here in Charleston.
The members of the Hampshire County Board of Education want to thank all who have contacted us, whether by email, phone or in person, over the last few weeks expressing your concerns.
Hampshire students will be in school 4 days a week
More than 15 percent of Hampshire County’s estimated 23,175 residents have been vaccinated against Covid-19.
Two days after the Hampshire school board voted to return to in-person learning 4 days a week, the state board passed a motion Tuesday afternoon requiring pre-K through 8th grade students to return to 5-day in-person instruction.
Hampshire County Schools will see a return to in-person learning 4 days a week, effective Wednesday, the board decided at their meeting tonight.
CHARLESTON – Three cases of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, or more commonly referred to as the UK Variant, have been detected in West Virginia. Nationwide 1,523 cases have been reported including all the bordering states to West Virginia. This variant was first reported in the US at the end o…
After several inches of snow and freezing rain pummeled Hampshire County on Thursday Feb. 18, several accidents have been reported this evening.
Authorities update case with juvenile suspect
Fentanyl played a part in 9 of 11 overdose deaths in Hampshire County last year.
Hampshire High School students returned to class Tuesday — 13 weeks to the day after they last entered the halls of HHS.
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice called for cutting West Virginia’s personal income tax in his State of the State address as he proposed tax increases on the wealthy and on the sale of soda and tobacco.
The improving conditions that sent Hampshire High School back to class Tuesday for the 1st time in 3 months are breathing relief into a healthcare system strained for 11 months by Covid-19.
The winter weather might be making you look wistfully to warmer days, but you’re not the only one waiting for Spring 2021.
The Capon Bridge Revitalization Group’s Project Coordinator Mary Billings presented updated plans for Capon School Street at last week’s Capon Bridge Town Council meeting, securing the council’s support for a new grant application.
With up to 300,000 people falling sick every day and up to 5,000 people dying daily from Covid-19, the U.S. is at war with the virus. Some 115,000 West Virginians have already gotten Covid-19 and almost 2,000 have died.
The, uhm, unknowingness that keeps cropping up on Facebook is grating at yours truly.
Have you ever seen a brick wall, leaned forward, put your head down, and run hard straight in to it? I haven’t either.
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Housed many, many feet above the ground, close to the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, lives a pair of eagles — Smitty and Bella.
MOOREFIELD — Would-be teachers in the Potomac Highlands will be able to complete a 4-year degree in elementary education through a new alliance between Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College and West Virginia University-Parkersburg.
Authorities are searching for 2 parolees wanted by the Moorefield Parole Office.
Four miles of U.S. 220 will be paved this summer, 1 of 17 projects the Division of Highways announced last week.
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