Hampshire County News

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.

A Friday afternoon accident on state Route 127 resulted in a fatality and two in-juries, ac-cording to West Virginia State Police.

Separate traffic accidents in West Virginia Friday claimed two lives. State Troopers in Hampshire County say 60-year-old Jennifer Heavner of Slanesville was killed after the car she was driving collided with an oncoming vehicle on state Route 127 Friday afternoon.

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.

More police officers die as a result of suicide than in the line of duty, according to national statistics.

West Virginia University broadcast news senior Kasey Hott is poised to be a star in the world of broadcast news.

The latest round of E-Rate program funding will benefit three area school systems.

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

School officials say history was made this weekend, when the commencement service for the Paw Paw High School Class of 2009 was held outside for 20 graduating seniors.

Ronald Nestor, a social work advocate for more than 45 years, has been named the recipient of the Anita S. Harbert Outstanding Achievement in Aging Award.

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.

Ninety students from the 2009 graduating class of Mountain State University celebrated their achievements Tuesday night at a ceremony at Musselman High School.

The state Supreme Court has annulled the license of a Harrison County attorney following his admission to embezzling money while chairman of a government agency in Hampshire County.

Biologists say a recent jump in chronic wasting disease rates among Wisconsin deer might spell trouble for deer in West Virginia's Hampshire County.

Even if the water running across the road appears shallow, what you can't see under the rushing water is the greatest hazard of all.

The West Virginia Supreme Court says motorists don't have to use turn signals if other traffic isn't affected by the driver's action.

A Hampshire County judge has ordered the reinstatement of former House Education Chairman Jerry Mezzatesta as an employee of the county Board of Education.

West Virginia is planning to release weevils in hopes of controlling a fast-growing vine that damages trees.

State Board of Education members fully returned the Hampshire County school system to local control at a meeting Wednesday afternoon.

Hampshire County is in full control of its school system for the first time since 2006.