New Creek News

Mineral school board to meet Tuesday KEYSER, W.Va. - Members of the Mineral County Board of Education will hear an update on Keyser High School fundraising at Tuesday's public meeting at 6 p.m. in the Administrative Office at 1 Baker Place.

Names for several facilities at the Keyser High School Athletic Complex were approved at Monday's meeting of the Mineral County Board of Education.

NEW CREEK, W.Va. - A juvenile passenger was killed and the juvenile driver was injured Friday morning when a pickup truck went out of control and crashed on Hershey Hollow Road, according to Mineral County Sheriff Craig Fraley.

Oct. 7--NEW CREEK, W.Va. -- Communities across the nation are working to determine what, exactly, constitutes an explicit message on outdoor advertising, including large billboards along well-traveled thoroughfares.

The state Public Service Commission has approved the construction of a 66-turbine wind farm in Grant County.

Firefighters from at least five area companies responded to this fire on Orchard Street in Keyser about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

Firefighters from at least five area companies responded to this fire on Orchard Street in Keyser about 3:30 p.m. Monday.

As the first day of the Mineral County Fair began, young people from around the area prepared to show animals, some for the first time.

A Keyser man was awaiting a bond hearing Friday after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend's father and then assaulted officers who had taken him into custody.

A Keyser man burned Monday morning at Sisler Lumber Co. was flown by Maryland State Police medevac helicopter Trooper 5 to West Penn Burn Center inPittsburgh, according to a dispatcher for Mineral County Emergency Services and Homeland Security.

A fire with a suspicious origin raged through the Comcast building at 55 North Main St.

The New Creek Volunteer Fire Department is waiting to receive bids for a new Ford F-450 4-by-4 to replace an aging ambulance it purchased in 2006.

Numerous Mineral County streams and creeks rose quickly a little after midnight Thursday, resulting in 58 calls for assistance in a little more than six hours, according to a dispatcher with the county's Office of Emergency Services and Homeland Security.

Kyle Adam Rosier, 22, New Creek, was struck and killed as he walked along U.S. Route 220 at Moorefield on Saturday about 5 a.m., according to West Virginia State Police.

Grant County Bank has pledged $10,000 to The Campaign for Keyser High School to support the completion of the new athletics complex.

The National Weather Service has posted a flood warning for Allegany and Mineral counties until 5 p.m. today.