Point Pleasant News

This year's Point Pleasant Sternwheel Regatta kicks off next Thursday, June 27 with an opening night featuring one of Nashville's rising stars.

The sun sets over "The Magazine" at Tu-Endie-Wei State Park on a warm, June evening.

Security at the Mason County Courthouse is still being discussed and as noted months ago when new measures were put into effect, this will be an ongoing process.

Jeff Darst displayed his two vintage firetrucks, a 1946 Seagraves ladder truck which is 43 feet long, and a 1948 restored Seagraves pumper truck which gets about five miles to a gallon of gas, at the Kickin' Summer Bash's Court Street cruise-in.

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Deep in a limestone cave under the Second Creek Valley of Monroe County, a work crew digging and processing saltpeter for use as a gunpowder component came across an assortment of large fossilized bones.

Our Community's Foundation - the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation its Regional Affiliate Foundations of Doddridge, Ritchie, Jackson, Mason counties and the Little Kanawha Area - announces its grant awards for spring 2013.

The Belle of Cincinnati will be docking in Point Pleasant at the Riverfront Park later this summer, and will gather up her passengers for a two and a half hour dinner cruise on the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers.

Ruby Mae Jordan, 72, of Gallipolis Ferry, died unexpectedly Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Huntington, WV.

Gregory Paul Roy, 54, a resident of Parsons, departed this life early Tuesday morning, June 11, 2013, at his home surrounded by loving family.

June is the beginning of the "Yard of the Month and Business in Bloom" contest which is sponsored by The Tu-Endie-Wei Garden Club and the City of Point Pleasant.

As part of the recent graduation events at Point Pleasant High School, teachers Lesley Dvosis and Stephanie Dickens organized a time capsule burial involving the elementary schools and the PPHS 2013 graduating class.

Summer storms can certainly pack a punch. Last summer, a severe summer storm swept through on June 29 leaving broken branches, torn shingles and power outages, as well as flooding and wind damage.

With Flag Day approaching on Friday, there are not one but two ways for people to retire their American flags, respectfully.

Mayor Brain Billings said he's received many complaints about the condition of the boat launch and the small channel which connects it with the Kanawha River.

Captain Charles . . 1953. Know the location? The bridge in the background is a clue.

The following criminal case were recently heard and sentences handed down by Judge David W. Nibert in Mason County Circuit Court, according to court records filed in the office of Circuit Clerk Bill Withers: State v.

Andrea Henderson and her family have a fun, windy day at Sunset Beach as Tropical Storm Andrea moves up the coast.

At Thursday's regular meeting of the Mason County Commission, Commissioners Miles Epling, Rick Handley and Tracy Doolittle heard the latest update on the project from representatives from Chapman Technical Group, the engineering firm overseeing the work.

Pleasant Valley Hospital recently announced Shrikant K. Vaidya, MD, a urologist in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, has successfully completed the requirements to maintain board-certification in urology from the American Board of Urology .