Chester News

Donald L. Ward, 84, of New Cumberland, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. He was born Nov.

Robert Capo, Sr., 73, of River Road in Beaver, Pa. - speeding, fined $50 plus $72 in court costs.

A recent development in energy grant funding may keep the Chester City Building on top of heating bills next winter.

The City of Chester will be transformed into CandyLand on Dec. 5. The Chester Hometown Committee has announced that this year's Christmas parade theme will be "CandyLand Christmas: Gumdrops and Lollipops," based on the Hasbro-owned game of the same name.

Mary E. Reed Barry, 91, passed peacefully early Saturday afternoon, November 14, 2009, at the East Liverpool City Hospital.

Nearly every girl has been there. She goes to the store to find a dress for a formal occasion and discovers that she faces a bigger problem than finding the perfect dress: finding the perfect dress for the perfect price.

Tammy White, 42, of Carolina Avenue in Chester - petit larceny and no driver's license, sentenced to 34 hours community service and assessed $72 in court costs for each charge.

Breakfast will be served from 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Inverness Fellowship Hall.

South Charleston's new nine-hole course aims to attract a different crowd of golfers in the Kanawha Valley.

Drivers will no longer be seeing orange when they cross the Jennings Randolph Bridge.

A Hancock County man is facing a slew of charges after he allegedly fled from Chester police Sunday morning.

Organizers of the annual Shop with a Cop in Hancock County are preparing for this year's event, and are looking for donations as well as those who may be in need of assistance through the program.

Chester High School Class of 1951 will meet for breakfast at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Connie's Corner Restaurant in Chester.

Published: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 2:16 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 2:16 p.m. CHESTER, W.Va. - A West Virginia racetrack has settled a lawsuit by a jockey who was paralyzed from the chest down during a racing accident.

Anna M. Jones, 78, of Sixth St. in Chester, passed away peacefully on Sunday afternoon at the Valley Hospice Care Center North in Steubenville where she had only been a patient since Thursday.

Gerry Porter of Chester, W.Va., shops for Fiesta Ware at the Homer Laughlin Factory Outlet in Newell, W.Va., earlier this summer.

The following arrests were also made by the Hancock County Sheriff's Department: Sept.

The following cases were disposed of in Chester Court on Monday: Gary Amos, no age given, of Virginia Avenue in Chester - unsightly property, fined $25 plus $72 in court costs and placed on six months diversionary.

Responding Thursday to a complaint by officials of the Comfort Inn about an odor of marijuana, officers charged a Chester, W.Va. woman with possession of marijuana.

Four Pennsylvania residents have been arrested on drug charges during a routine traffic stop in Hancock County.