The West Virginia Department of Human Services (DoHS), Bureau for Child Support Enforcement (BCSE), is proud to recognize August as Child Support Awareness Month by launching a new, user-friendly website: bcse.wvtylertech.com. The site offers an improved digital experience for families and employers, making it easier, faster, and more secure to[Read More…]
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Pull Up A Chair
By: Hettie Basil Lighttower Treasures….. one is silver and the other is gold. I’m talking about friendship! Are you mature enough to remember that old song that is sung in a round? Do you know what it means to sing in a round? Let’s start with that. A round is[Read More…]
At the Library
The following books have recently been added to the Brooke County Public Library’s collection: ADULT FICTION THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA by Lisa Scottoline. Lately, Julia Pritzker is beginning to think she’s cursed. She’s lost her adoptive parents, then her husband is murdered. When she realizes that her horoscope essentially foretold[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…]
Afternoon Movie at the Follansbee Library
The Follansbee Library will be showing the movie “Drop” rated PG-13 on Friday, August 15 at 12 p.m.Violet is a widowed mother who has worked up the courage to go on her first date in years with a charming photographer named Henry. The cute couple’s killer chemistry is rudely interrupted[Read More…]
Family Movie at the Library
The Brooke County Public Library will be showing the film “A Minecraft Movie” rated PG on Thursday, August 14 at 5 p.m.Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they embark on a magical[Read More…]
Suzanne Catherine Mason
SUZANNE CATHERINE MASON, 96, of Weirton WV passed away on August 4, 2025 at home with her son and daughters with her. She was born on June 14, 1929, a daughter of Irish immigrants, the late Thomas and Catherine Gallagher McElwain. She grew up in a loving family with six[Read More…]
Sabell (Chalfant) Metzger
SABELL (CHALFANT) METZGER, 102, of Wellsburg, WV, passed away peacefully on Sunday, August 3, 2025 at the Weirton Geriatric Center. Isabell was born on July 6, 1923 in Fayette City, PA. She was the daughter of the late Hugh Chalfant and Jane “Jean” (Legg) Chalfant. After graduating from high school,[Read More…]
Beatrice Jane Reffitt
BEATRICE JANE REFFITT, 78, of Wellsburg, WV died peacefully on Saturday, August 2, 2025, at home surrounded by her family. She was born on October 17, 1946, in Buckhannon, WV a daughter of the late Earl Perrine and Madeline Ruth Taylor. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in[Read More…]
Deborah Kay Price
DEBORAH KAY PRICE, 74, a beloved mother, sister, and dedicated nurse, left this world on August 2, 2025. Born on January 28, 1951, in Steubenville, Ohio, Deborah was a daughter of Robert and Shirley Klein Smith. A compassionate, caring professional, Deborah devoted over thirty years of her life to the[Read More…]