Romney News

The Hampshire County Board of Education held a special meeting Monday, June 29, 2009, at the offices of the Hampshire County Board of Education.

ROMNEY The proposed Hampshire Hardy Day Report Center has been funded and is expected to begin late in July, according to John Rohrbaugh.

Monday marked the beginning of construction of the new Hampshire Memorial Hospital, which is expected to bring top-of-the-line health care and jobs to the area.

The Paw Paw Library and Hospice of the Panhandle are hosting a hospice and advance care planning open house from 9 a.m. to noon July 22 at the Paw Paw Library.

We had the Crawford Woolen Mill that opened in 1890, in the new Martinsburg Mining, Manufacturing and Improvement Company land on the southwest side of Martinsburg.

Michael and Carrie Kline will give a free summer Concert on the Lawn at The Potomac Center, 1 Blue St., Romney, W.Va., Sunday at 5 p.m. Sponsored by the Hampshire County Arts Council, the pair will perform traditional Appalachian Mountain harmonies and contemporary songs with guitar.

Three people were injured in a head-on crash Tuesday morning on Rada Road near Russelldale Road in Mineral County.

Members of the Morgan County Board of Education hosted a reception Thursday for their newest member.

ROMNEY, W.Va. - An 18-year-old Slanesville man is facing up to 10 years in state prison after showing up at Hampshire High School on Tuesday with a loaded shotgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a baseball bat.

More than $4 million in federal money will help protect rare bats, perennial herbs and fish that live in rivers inside West Virginia and Virginia forests.

The superintendent who oversees the West Virginia School for the Deaf in Romney said she has talked with students about their problems with cafeteria workers, faulty air-conditioning and building conditions that led to a protest last week.

The official in charge of the West Virginia School for the Deaf defended the decision to suspend for three days 26 students who took part in a sit-in strike last week.

The Salvation Army - Camp Tomahawk, 64 Boy Scout Road, announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program.

Lincoln lecture at Romney courthouse ROMNEY, W.Va. - Bertram Wyatt-Brown, professor of history emeritus at the University of Florida and a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, will present a free public lecture, "Lincoln's Assassination Revisited," May 19 at 7 p.m. in the courtroom of the old Hampshire County Courthouse.

The state's toll-free hotline for reporting game and fish violations, 1-800-NET-GAME, is a thing of the past.

Students at the West Virginia School for the Deaf who staged a sitdown strike are expected to meet with school officials about their grievances.

No traffic in the vicinity of your vehicle? There's no need to use your turn signal in West Virginia.

For the second day in a row, a college has lost one of its students. Shepherd University sent out an e-mail to students about the death of Erin Pancake of Romney, WV.

An attorney for former House Education Chairman Jerry Mezzatesta on Sunday hailed a judge's ruling ordering Mezzatesta's reinstatement as an employee of the Hampshire County Board of Education.

An apparent electrical fire Monday afternoon displaced a Springfield family who was not at home at the time of the incident.