Follansbee News

MAINS, Rachel Hope, 86, of Follansbee, W.Va., passed away on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009, at Brightwood Center, Follansbee, W.Va. Rachel was born on May 1, 1923, in Pitt County, North Carolina, a daughter of the late William and Elizabeth Ireland Broadway, also preceded in death by her husband, Walter Gerald Mains on February 15, 2007, and two brothers ...

A Brooke County grand jury on Monday indicted 25 area residents, including more than a dozen accused of illegal drug activity.

Area residents have spent the summer months participating in fundraisers to assist area resident Pamela Poland with paying for a liver transplant.

FOLLANSBEE a ' Stephanie Marie Cox and Justin Andrew Swiger were united in marriage at 2 p.m. June 27 at Hooverson Heights Church of Christ with the Rev.

Members of women's clubs throughout the Northern Panhandle want U.S. troops to know they aren't forgotten.

Scientists with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have reported toxic substances found in the air outside Follansbee Middle School and two other West Virginia schools are not sufficient to create short-term health concerns.

Brooke County Public Service District officials said, at their Oct. 14 meeting, customers who had been left out of the first phase of the Mahan Lane-Eldersville Road-Bruin Drive sewer project still have a chance of being included and heard again from Follansbee officials hoping to serve the project area.

Traveling thousands of miles up and down U.S. highways since 1961, Woodsfield resident Charles Burkhart had never wrecked a tractor-trailer until Monday.

Members of the United Steelworkers Local 1223 are being urged to attend a special meeting Tuesday at the union hall in Yorkville.

Follansbee Church of Christ, at the corner of Penn and Neville Streets, welcomes everyone to its Friendship Sunday services at 9 a.m. or 11:15 a.m. Sunday.

The following cases were addressed in Hancock County Magistrate Court: John Anderson of Holberts Run Road in New Cumberland - speeding, fined $15 plus $184.50 in court costs.

From collecting care packages for military serving abroad to collecting canned goods and clothing for local families in need, several Follansbee groups have planned several projects to coincide with Make a Difference Day, Oct.

Since becoming a part of the United Way of the Upper Ohio Valley, Brooke County is preparing to raise funds.

For lots of folks, mid-October is too early to start thinking of Santa Claus, or the Baby in the manger.

For those doing their Christmas dreaming a little early this year, as the old Christmas song puts it, or looking for a place to see others, partake of a variety of food and perhaps do a little advance holiday shopping, Follansbee Park is the place to be.

An Oct. 17 special election will determine the fate of two Brooke County excess levies supporting local fire departments, several Brooke County departments and agencies and improvements to the Brooke County Courthouse.

Local entities gathered in Weirton Wednesday evening to discuss regional purchasing of water supplies with representatives of the West Virginia Public Service Commission Amy Swann, PSC director, and other agency representatives joined the discussion to answer several questions presented at September's meeting in which it was agreed upon by local ...

Follansbee City Council is expected next week to consider the annexation of Highland Woods, a subdivision being developed off Archer Hill Road.

As general practice physicians are in short supply and the national battle over health care continues, one local nurse is taking the step out on her own.

Two local women's clubs have received grants to encourage children to maintain healthy lifestyles and are among several clubs preparing for a district convention to be held in Bethany.