The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) is pleased to announce the return of the West Virginia Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP).The SFMNP is designed to help low-income senior citizens access fresh, local fruit and vegetables. Seniors sign up for the vouchers at their county-level senior center. Applications will[Read More…]
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Pull Up A Chair
By: Hettie Basil Lighttower This week was April Fool’s Day. Did you get fooled? Did you get someone with a joke aka lie? I used to be very good at coming up with April fool’s jokes, my sense of humor has an imagination at times. In my latter years, if[Read More…]
Mills Named to Dean’s List
Domenic Mills of Follansbee has been named to the 2024 fall trimester Dean’s List at Palmer College of Chiropractic’s Florida Campus in Port Orange, Florida.Palmer College of Chiropractic, the first and largest college in the chiropractic profession, has campuses in Davenport, Iowa, and Port Orange, Florida.
At the Library
The following books have recently been added to the Brooke County Public Library’s collection: ADULT FICTION BETTER LEFT UNSENT by Lia Louis. “Two years ago, thirty-year-old receptionist Millie Chandler had her heart spectacularly broken in public. Ever since, she has been a closed book, vowing to keep everything to herself[Read More…]
Tai Chi Class Offered at the Library
The Brooke County Public Library will now be offering a weekly Tai Chi class instructed by Mike Turrentine every Monday at 11 a.m. in the River Room of the Brooke County Library.Tai Chi is a moving meditation in the form of a series of gentle exercises that create harmony between[Read More…]
Friends of the Brooke County Public Library Offering Easter Bunny Letters
The Friends of the Brooke County Public Library, with help from the Easter Bunny, are once again sending personalized letters from the Easter Bunny to all children in the area. He would like to let them know he will be hopping down the bunny trail soon. Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles,[Read More…]
Afternoon Movie at the Library
The Follansbee Library will be showing the movie Jesus Revolution rated PG-13 on Friday, April 11.The true story of a national spiritual awakening in the early 1970’s and its origins within a community of teenage hippies in Southern California.Bring your lunch and watch a movie with us. Popcorn and water[Read More…]
Family Movie at the Library
The Brooke County Public Library will be showing the film “Dog Man” rated PG on Thursday, April 10, at 5 p.m.When a dog and a police officer are injured together on the job, a life-saving surgery changes the course of history.Popcorn and water will be provided. Call the circulation desk[Read More…]
Storybook Yoga at the Library
The Brooke County Library will be holding storybook yoga for children and caregivers on Wednesday, April 9, at 5 p.m., in the River Room with Taylor Provenzano from Soulshine Yoga. Read, Move and Breathe. A yoga class and storytime rolled into one. Bring a mat or towel and join us[Read More…]
Bonnie Lee Billick
BONNIE LEE BILLICK, 81, of Colliers, WV passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family at WVU Weirton Medical Center on Saturday, March 29, 2025. Born on October 25, 1943, in Steubenville, she was a beloved daughter of the late Jesse J. and Georgia Ann Clark Jackson. A graduate of Weir[Read More…]