Gauley Bridge News

Fayette County Assessor Eddie Young has released a schedule of community visits by representatives of his office.

Upper Kanawha Valley municipalities will again host celebrations marking Independence Day.

Cities and towns across southern West Virginia will celebrate Independence Day with fireworks.

The summer reading program for Fayette County Public Libraries debuts next week.

Local police officers carried a special torch around the region. The annual law enforcement torch run for the Special Olympics kicked off in Beckley, Thursday.

Two write-in candidates, including a former mayor, will oppose the incumbent mayor in the upcoming Gauley Bridge municipal election.

A Gauley Bridge woman is suing a Montgomery grocery store after she slipped on oil from a deep fryer in the store's deli.

Mike Sandefer, new business development manager for NAPA in Atlanta, is looking for local partners for three stores in Oak Hill, Montgomery and Gauley Bridge.

A ceremony will be held next Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Fayette County Circuit Judge John Hatcher's courtroom unveiling a photo of the first female jurors to serve in the county 52 years ago, Fayette County Circuit Clerk Danny Wright said Monday.

Fayette County sheriff's deputies made quick work of a case in which a man purportedly impersonated a police officer in the Powellton area last Friday night and robbed a pair of homeowners.

Gauley Bridge police arrested a pair of city residents early last Wednesday and charged them with several drug and firearms charges, Police Chief Sean Whipkey announced Thursday.

Two men from Sissonville were arrested Wednesday night after Kanawha County Sheriff's Deputies responded to a 'shots fired' call on Legg Fork Road.

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The Valley High School Hi-Y Club was recognized at a meeting of the Fayette County Board of Education on Thursday, Jan.

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A Gauley Bridge man was hospitalized and two men arrested after a verbal altercation turned physical late Saturday in Gauley Bridge.

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Thumbs up ... to Mid-State Pre-Owned Auto and WJLS for joining forces with The Salvation Army to coordinate an eight-county food drive this holiday season.

Principals and teachers were called to the head of the class at Monday's Fayette County Board of Education meeting.