Under bright blue skies, and a temperature that was near perfect, Labor Day weekend arrived in New Martinsville and Paden City. Both communities have for the last year, planned and made preparations for this Labor Day holiday. In both communities’ organizers were busy arranging events. Paden ...
Last Thursday evening alongside the Moose Lodge in the picnic area, Rich Earlywine on behalf of the lodge hosted a pizza party. By 7:00 pm over two dozen guests and students had gathered to be part of the evening celebration. What were they about to celebrate, the awarding of four $1,000 ...
This summer, in a convention hall hundreds of miles from Wetzel County, three of our students stood among the best in the nation. When the results of the National Technology Student Association Conference were announced, a team from the Wetzel County Technical Center — Tucker Postlethwaite, ...
While traveling through Ireland, Charlie and Linda Duke from Paden City took time to read the Wetzel Chronicle as they paused just outside the Titanic museum in windy conditions to catch up on the news back home. The museum is located in Belfast Ireland and is the home port to where the Ship of ...
Our Smile Camera was lucky this week as it visited Flannery Field in Hannibal. We happened upon a lovely young mother, Victory, with her beautiful daughter Ruth Datkuliak. Ruth and her mother were there to see her son who is on the Cross country team. There are few things in this world more ...
With August coming to an end, so do the summer vacations of the county’s students. Wetzel County has 2017 returning students in the county’s six schools. Hundred Heritage has 130, New Martinsville School will have 869, Paden City Elementary 157, Shortline School 368, Magnolia High School ...
Several items were on the Hundred town council agenda on Monday evening, August 17, 2026, however the meeting was without a Mayor, so council person Alicia Bragg chaired the meeting, declared a forum and called it to order. Those present included council members Johanna Lemasters, Joey ...
The Wetzel County Commission on Tuesday, August 18, heard a monetary request from Circuit Clerk Lori McCoy for the preservation of court records. She said the old files are very brittle and probably should have been worked on a long time ago. She gave the commission a run down on the cost ...
Court August 17, 2027 Judge Jeffery D. Cramer Heather Necole Hayes, 32, of 810 Highland Ave. New Martinsville, WV is charged in a three count indictment by the Grand Jury with the felony offenses of Delivery of a controlled narcotic substance Fentanyl, Heroin, and Xylazine. She failed to ...
“Pardon me sir, did you see what happened here” “Yeah I did, Judy and I were just sitting there at the second table eating our senior lunch, when I heard a large crash, boom, bang. I looked up and I said, ‘don’t look Judy’, but it was too late. They’d already spilled the ice tea!”
