Grantsville News

A number of area health care centers will be receiving federal stimulus money to make improvements and to upgrade services.

A rainy week led to a flash flood watch that was in effect until 4 a.m. today. Thad Truitt, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in South Charleston, said the watch means conditions are favorable for a flood and people living near streams need to watch for flooding and be prepared to evacuate if waters continue to rise.

Schools were affected this morning in Gilmer, Roane and Calhoun counties by high water because of the rain, officials said.

Although some ares received more than an inch of rain today, the flood waters and run-off have stopped just short of flood stage in Grantsville.

FORSYTHE, Paul Thomas, age 73, of Wellsburg, W.Va., was the son of long time Brooke County residents, Thomas Russell and Minnie Ennis Forsythe of Lazears Lane.

State Police say a woman went to her parents' Calhoun County home to pay them a visit and found them dead of gunshot wounds.

Ronnie and Donna Erlewine first tried their hands at selling furniture about five years ago when they displayed some sofa tables at a Calhoun County event.

Kathy Burrows creates trios of crosses to tell the story of Easter. She weaves colorful crochet thread through a plastic canvas cut into the shape of a cross.

Three people were sent to hospitals following a wreck on West Virginia 5 near the Wirt-Calhoun line where a truck and car collided just before 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Twenty-nine health centers, including four from the region, will receive federal economic stimulus funds to expand and improve service.

Although many are already ardent students of Civil War history, reenactors say they continue to learn new things everyday, and that, combined with the camaraderie among their fellow "soldiers" translates into a ...

Officials expecting to have at least some of the proposed $27 million in Wood County road projects started this summer as a result of the federal stimulus package got the rug pulled out from under them.

Jonay Danyall Kelly and Mitch Allen Corley were united in Christian marriage on Jan.

A woman's body was discovered near Sycamore Creek in Calhoun County on New Year's Day, authorities said Friday.