After nearly two years of discussion, legal actions, and stops and starts, the Wetzel County Board of Education is at a point where a decades old journey may be nearing an end. The board on Monday evening July 28, 2025 received from attorneys a fifty-page purchase agreement. The complex ...
Major cities like Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, New York City, Houston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Phoenix, Cleveland, Columbus, and Charlotte, were among the over 1,600 July 17 protest events planned across all 50 states. The “The Good Trouble Lives On” protests ...
WVU Medicine Wetzel County Hospital is gearing up to open its new coffee shop – Wake Up, Wetzel – in New Martinsville. The facility is following the lead of its sister hospital, WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital, that opened a coffee shop in its main entry a few years ago. Much like the ...
The time for the Aug. 6 sentencing hearing in the Joseph Ward of New Martinsville sex-related crimes case has been changed to 4:30 p.m. The hearing was originally scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 6, according to the county clerk’s office. Ward entered an Alford plea on July 1. A ...
The New Martinsville Rotary Club's speaker for the day was Rotarian Whitney Clegg who provided the club with an interesting look at Separation of Church from a landmark case in American history that took place in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee. The case known as the Scopes Monkey Trial centered ...
The Wetzel County Local Emergency Planning Committee held its quarterly meeting at the Mollohan Center on the county’s 4-H Camp grounds on July 25, 2025. Larry Thomas is the local Chairman of the committee. A panel of local officials were present for the meeting with the members and public. ...
First Community Bankshares, Inc., headquartered in Bluefield, Va., and Hometown Bancshares Inc., headquartered in Middlebourne, WV, jointly announced their entry into an Agreement and Plan of Merger. Pursuant to this agreement, First Community will acquire Hometown, and First Community’s ...
The West Virginia University Mountaineer read a story to children attending the Energy Express Summer Reading and Nutrition Program at Paden City Elementary. “He read the book ‘Living Life the West Virginia Way’ by Carolyn Atkins, a copy of which was signed and gifted to the school, ...
A deputy with the Wetzel County Sheriff’s Department participated in the annual West Virginia Sheriff’s Association Youth Leadership Academy. Wetzel County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Cora Cook was among the many deputies helping to instruct children enrolled in the academy held at ...
The Wetzel County Museum curator, Dan Henthorn announced that on the evening of July 24th at 6:00pm, the museum is going to display the work of local artist Earl Yost. Dan explained the museum is undertaking this event to show off Earl’s paintings that recreate moments of the county’s ...
