Belington News

The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources will not know until late next week the exact number of bucks killed during the first week of gun season, DNR Game Management Supervisor Gary Foster said Monday.

On Thursday, families and friends will get together for their Thanksgiving feasts, football games, parades and relaxing.

A Barbour County man who led police on a chase through two counties Sunday at speeds that sometimes exceeded 105 miles per hour is in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail on a $75,000 bond.

Barbour County sheriff's deputies were involved in a car chase that ended in Upshur County early Monday morning.

James "Jim' Clayton Phillips, 69, of Elkins entered into eternal rest Wednesday Nov.

Light of Christ Chapel in Belington, with the help of Belington American Legion Post 96 and Woodmen of the World, recently dedicated two new flagpoles and flags at the church.

A Jackson County business is expanding to Barbour County, officials have announced.

Virginia Tech student Aaron Jones of Belington has gained membership to the Marching Virginians at Virginia Tech.

The Belington Board of Parks has set this Saturday as Civic Center Clean Up Day.

A Barbour County man was killed Monday night when the ATV he was riding flipped.

Belington-based band Shaffer has just released its fifth CD, "Believe." The band, formerly called The Shaffers, is comprised of Dave Shaffer, his wife, Trish, daughter, Cassie Shaffer-Hymes, and her husband, Mike Hymes.

Monday will be the first official day on the job for new Wheeling Police Chief Robert Matheny.

Laurel Mountain Inn and Hometown Pizzeria in Belington have partnered with the Heart and Hand House Community Garden Market to integrate locally grown food into their menus throughout the rest of October.

"We are the Department of Environmental Protection and if we feel if there was something going in the water to warn people downstream, we would not allow it to go in the water to begin with." Randy Huffman, WVDEP Cabinet Secretary A 45,000-ton stockpile of rock salt on J.F. Allen Co.

A Winchester, Va., man charged in the stabbing death of his girlfriend during a two-day police standoff in June and a subsequent attempt to escape from correctional officers was named in a multicount indictment on Tuesday by a Berkeley County grand jury, according to Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Jean Games-Neely's office.

Hometown Pizzeria and Laurel Mountain Inn in Belington have partnered with the Heart and Hand Community Garden Market in Philippi to buy local produce.

Heart and Hand House Community Garden Market has been working diligently to establish a sustainable food chain in Barbour and surrounding counties.

Volunteer tutors, especially for the Belington area, are needed by Literacy Volunteers of Randolph County.

Mr. James Darrell Smith, 59, a resident of Cassity, went home to be with our Lord Friday afternoon, Oct.

A 44-count indictment charging 55 members and associates of the Pagans Motorcycle Club was unsealed Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of West Virginia.