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YSU Students Named to Dean’s List

Youngstown State University has named three local students to the Dean’s List for Fall Semester 2024. Dean’s List recognition is awarded to full-time undergraduate students who have earned at least a 3.4 grade point average for not less than 12 semester hours of credit in the Fall semester.Those three local[Read More…]

Pull Up A Chair

By: Hettie Basil Lighttower So, how do our little furry friends make our lives better when we are having to always look after them, clean up after them, and put up with their shenanigans? Well, underneath all the chaos is a little thing called connection. We get connected to them[Read More…]

At the Library

The following books have recently been added to the Brooke County Public Library’s collection: ADULT FICTION THE NIGHT WE LOST HIM by Laura Dave. Liam Noone was many things to many people. To the public, he was an exacting, self-made hotel magnate fleeing his past. To his three ex-wives, he[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…]

Vickie’s Kitchen Delights

By: Vickie Davis Surprise! I am back! I have been quite busy since early December 2024.I fell doing a split and injured both hamstrings, left knee and acquiring a facture of my left fibula!I ended up not baking one batch of cookies or making absolutely no fudge!I then transferred to[Read More…]

Allen Lee Morris

ALLEN LEE MORRIS, 69, of Wellsburg, WV passed away February 22, 2025, at home. He was born February 9, 1956, in Waynesburg, PA to the late Francis “Satch “and Grace Shriver Morris. He retired from Eagle Manufacturing, and was a member of the McKinleyville Fire Dept. He is survived by[Read More…]

Wanda “Hope” Daugherty

WANDA “HOPE” DAUGHERTY, 94, of Hendersonville, NC formerly of Colliers, WV died peacefully on Friday, February 21, 2025 at home. She was born on October 31, 1930, in Holiday’s Cove, WV a daughter of the late Edward and Dora (Wright) Simmons. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in[Read More…]