Tyler County News

Unemployment continues to grow in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Workforce West Virginia has released its May 2009 report with the majority of counties reporting an increase in joblessness.

From the drivers to the announcer to the fans, everyone was in agreement Friday night.

Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 ; 06:15 PM Post Comment Updated Monday, June 15, 2009 ; 07:25 PM It's part of the Children's Vision Rehabilitation Project.

There will be no dancing for Meghan Dennison at her prom Saturday, but after a serious car crash less than a week ago, it's a miracle she'll be there at all.

Students honored by First Federal Savings Bank of Sistersville and Parkersburg for placing in the top 15 percent of their classes included: Tyler Consolidated 9th grade - Sarah Campbell, Austin Carpenter, Brooke Clegg, Joshua Fiber, Shannon Forrester, Michael George, Samanta Jones, Crysta Long, Montana Morris, Kaitlyn Neff, David Powers, Jocelyn ...

After 15 years of operation, the school-based clinics that provide preventive and basic health care to students are expanding into more West Virginia counties.

A farm in Tyler County has been added to a list of endangered properties in West Virginia.

Wheeling's Capitol Theater and seven other structures are on this year's edition of the Preservation Alliance of West Virginia's annual endangered properties list.

Twenty-two West Virginia counties now exceed the state's average unemployment rate.

William M. Baker has been named the 2009 Citizen of the Year in the Middlebourne Area by the Middlebourne RoadRunners Club.

The West Virginia Division of Highways' District 6 is scheduled to receive an estimated $14.25 million in federal stimulus money this year.

For Sharon Lyn Stackpole, the decision to make art again, after a long absence away from sculptor's clay and paintbrushes, had nothing to do with being inspired.

More than 1,600 workers in West Virginia's six Northern Panhandle counties lost their jobs between December and January - leaving 5,760 employees out of work in Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel, Tyler, Brooke and Hancock ...

Unemployment rose in all 55 West Virginia counties in January as the state lost more than 22,000 jobs.

Other Stories by Kathleen Antill Wheeling -- Starting in March, both the Moundsville and Paden City WIC offices will add an additional day to their schedules for clinic services.

Road and bridge improvements are proposed in four Northern Panhandle counties as a result of the $211 million earmarked for highway jobs funded by federal economic stimulus dollars coming to West Virginia.

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.

A new bill is moving through Charleston, designed to toughen the penalties for drinking and driving.

Five area teachers, including two from Wood County, have been selected to receive mini-grants for classroom projects.

J.D. and Melissa Headley of Sistersville and Robert and Deanna Jones of Middlebourne announce the engagement of their children, Brandy Monik Headley and Robert O. Jones, III.