Tyler County News

When Tyler County middle-schoolers head back to the hallowed halls of learning this fall, they will be under the leadership of a new TCMS principal.

A new horizontal well in Tyler County produced an amazing 7 million cubic feet of natural gas in a single day, along with 650 barrels of valuable liquids: ethane, propane, butane and pentane.

Sistersville Mayor David B. Fox signed a resolution Monday evening to accept a $100,000 budget appropriation from the state to fund the city's ferryboat operation.

I have received so many phone calls in the past week and a half that I feel compelled to respond en mass.

Weese is the daughter of Ron and Marsha Weese of Middlebourne. She is a Bucklew Scholar at West Virginia University and plans to study Pre-Law and Psychology.

We are in need of our community's help. The Sistersville Community Service Organization is only halfway to the annual cost of $7,450 needed for the grand fireworks display at this year's Picnic-in-the-Park Celebration.

The Tyler County Shrine Club and the Nemesis Shrine, together with Sistersville General Hospital hosted their annual Shriners' screening clinic Saturday, May 5. The clinic provides the opportunity for children to be screened to qualify for free care in the Shriners' Hospital system.

Gates will open at 5 p.m. with hot laps beginning at 7:30 p.m. One of the first 100 paying fans through the Grandstand gate will recieve one free hotdog and one free popcorn.

We are experiencing an influx of traffic throughout the county, as private enterprises compete to lease property and mineral rights for the purpose of drilling into pockets of oil and natural gas found deep in ancient shale formations.

The Tyler County Board of Education held its regular meeting Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. with all members present.

For the third week in a row Tyler County Speedway track officials have regretfully had to pull the plug on Saturday night racing action and forcing the postponement of the Wilson Law Offices 18th Annual Topless 50 for the second consecutive week.