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Paden City’s Casto, Neff Honored at OVAC Awards

The Ohio Valley Athletic Conference held its annual awards banquet on Sunday, February 8, in Steubenville, recognizing outstanding individuals for their contributions to high school athletics. Among those honored were two individuals from Paden City High School: longtime assistant coach Ron ...

Smiling Faces

This week our smile camera happened upon a Fairy Princess. Miss Jayda Ellison, age 5, came to watch the last Lady Eagles home game of the 24-25 season. With her bright smile, she spiked Fairy dust on the team and they won the evening game against Frankford.

Tyler BOE Moves Forward With Feasibility Study

The Wetzel County Board of Education convened a special meeting Feb. 17 at the board office on Foundry Street, New Martinsville to consider one of two proposed sites for a new high school for Wetzel County. The board held discussion on the two properties the Blake site and the Fluharty site ...

Work To Create 5-County Public Transit System Underway

Work to create a brand new public transit system for four counties – Wetzel, Tyler, Marshall, Pleasants and Doddridge – is underway. Tom Cooper, director of the Tyler County Emergency Management Agency, said funding for the system will be covered in part by each county commission and ...

Tyler Middle School Finishes Second Place at State

In only its third year of existence, the TCMS Jazz Band finished as State Runners-Up in the West Virginia Middle School Jazz Finalist Competition. The winner was Suncrest Middle School in Morgantown, who will perform at the State Music Conference in March as a result of their ...

New Consolidated School in Wetzel Could Cost $130M

NEW MARTINSVILLE – Members of the Wetzel County Board of Education planned to visit two potential sites for the possible construction of a new consolidated high school. The decision was made Tuesday, Feb. 11, during the board’s regular meeting. After visiting the two potential sites in ...

Former Paden City Man Detained in Russia Back at Home in U.S.

A Shadyside resident and Paden City native who had been detained in Russia on suspicion of drug smuggling has been released and is on his way back to the United States, according to his family. Russian news agencies said that Kalob Wayne Byers, 28, was detained at Moscow’s Vnukovo airport ...

Tyler County Commission Removes Middlebourne EMS from 911 Rotation

The Tyler County Commission met in regular session on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, in the auditorium of the Senior Center in Middlebourne. Following the approval of the minutes from the January 28, 2025 meeting and approval of the Fiduciary Report and the Exonerations, the commissioners heard ...