Moorefield News

Following a lawsuit to compel its release late last year, Gilmer County officials made public last month details of the settlement in a dispute between the county clerk, and a Virginia bank.

MOOREFIELD, W.Va. -- Summit Financial Group Inc., the corporate parent of Summit Community Bank, reported fourth-quarter 2011 net income of $1.3 million or 16 cents a share, up from $836,000 or 11 cents a share in the fourth quarter of 2010.

After months of planning and research, members of the Green Bank Wellness Center committee selected a site for the center at a brainstorming meeting January 18.

A Attorney General Darrell McGraw will have a field representative from his office at the Hardy County Senior Center located at 409 Spring Ave., Moorefield, to offer a presentation on Identity Theft for consumers, take complaints and answer questions about consumer protection issues.

Two individuals entered guilty pleas on Jan. 10 in United States District Court in Elkins before Magistrate Judge John S. Kaull.

A 21-year-old female Shepherd University student suffered serious injuries after she was struck by a minivan while walking in a university crosswalk at 3:56 p.m. Friday, according to news releases from the Shepherdstown Police Department and SU.