Follansbee News

FOLLANSBEE a ' Patricia Cross of Follansbee and James McCord of Wheeling announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Bridget Ann McCord, to Kevin Kosut, son of Cassie Bailey and Bill Kosut of New Cumberland.

The West Virginia Film Office is sponsoring a workshop to help communities recruit more film production to the state.

The Wellsburg Kiwanis Club took time recently to recognize two of its longtime members and remember three members whom the group lost last year.

Brooke County Sheriff Richard Ferguson says that six young men have confessed to going "mowing." The Sheriff says that is the latest slang term for doing damage to peoples property.

STEUBENVILLE a ' Leo and Betty R. Lanaghan of Steubenville celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary June 22.

A taste of "The Sopranos" - courtesy of the Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack - will flavor up this year's Upper Ohio Valley Italian Heritage Festival.

From collecting 145 pairs of eyeglasses for those unable to afford them to helping welcome new students, the "Friends of Rachel" at Follansbee Middle School took on a variety of projects in its first year.

Organizers of Follansbee Community Days said though one day has been dropped from the annual festival, the schedule for this year still will include a lot of music and fun.

Summer pleasure doesn't have to cost a lot. Sometimes, nothing at all. The Short Crick Flatpickers will reunite for one evening.

On June 17, the Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce and the Follansbee Chamber of Commerce partnered with Workforce West Virginia and the Millsop Community Center to sponsor a Job Fair which was held in the Rose Room of the Millsop Community Center.

Organizers of a job fair held in Weirton on Wednesday are calling the event a success and hope to be able to hold similar events in the future.

Weirton will receive some special guests, as members of the Alumni Association of Pilot Dog Owners will check into the Weirton Holiday Inn with the canine companions who have been trained to help them in compensating for their blindness or visual impairments.

Officials at Brooke Hills Park say at a time when many families are tightening their budgets, they don't have to go far to find affordable summer fun.

Small, independent attorneys in the Ohio Valley say one of your constitutional rights is at risk.

Weirton leaders may work to establish a regional water authority, but officials in Follansbee, Wellsburg, Wheeling and Moundsville are not sure such a system would benefit them.

The Brooke High School Class of 2009 was headed by two valedictorians and three salutatorians.

Challenger Sue Simonetti unseated Wellsburg Mayor Wayne Campbell in Tuesday's municipal elections, while Follansbee voters re-elected Anthony "Tony" Paesano as their mayor.

Races for mayor and other city positions will be decided in elections in Follansbee, Wellsburg and Bethany on Tuesday.

Tuesday is municipal Election Day in many local communities in West Virginia. Voters in Bethany, Bethlehem, Follansbee, Friendly, Hundred, Middlebourne, Pine Grove, Valley Grove, Wellsburg and Smithfield, W.Va., will elect town officials such as mayor, recorder and council members.

A Weirton man who allegedly committed a series of burglaries and a Steubenville woman charged with the armed robbery of a Weirton business were among 23 indicted by a Brooke County grand jury on Monday.