Jefferson, WV

By Stephen Smoot The Pendleton County Wildcats continued their travels in the Old Dominion last week, taking on the Thomas Jefferson Science and Technology School that has just more than 2,100 students, about 600 more than Class AAAA Jefferson High School in West Virginia. That same school had lost to Pendleton’s opponent, Stonewall Jackson High […]

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (October 29, 2026) — A man suspected of shooting up a home and burglarizing it in Berkeley County is apparently dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office tells the Panhandle News Network their SWAT team, as well as Jefferson County’s Sheriff’s Special Response Team, responded to what they called…

Loris M. Shreve, 91, of Upper Tract passed away Oct. 24, 2026, at Grant Memorial Hospital in Petersburg. She was born Feb. 8, 1935, in Smoke Hole and was the daughter of the late Vernon Jefferson Kimble and Glona Lessie Alt Kimble. Mrs. Shreve was a 1953 graduate of Franklin High School. She, along with […]

Calvin Lee Bickford, 60, of Taylorsville, passed on Friday, October 23, 2026, at Catawba Valley Medical Center. Calvin was born October 2, 1966, in Fayette County, West Virginia, the son of the late Calvin Jefferson Bickford and Margaret Dillon Bickford. Calvin worked for Sherwin-Williams in Statesville for over 30 years. He was of the Christian…

SHANNONDALE, W.Va. (October 26, 2026) — The West Virginia Division of Highways has announced major roadwork in Shannondale that is set to begin today and last through October. Paving operations will be conducted on Shannondale Road, HARP 977, in Jefferson County, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., beginning on Monday, October 26, 2026, through the…

STEUBENVILLE—Jefferson County has a new Job & Family Services Director in waiting. Jeffrey Felton, a Follansbee resident, will take the reins Dec. 1, succeeding Michelle Santin who is retiring after nearly 25 years of combined service. The Bergholz native graduated in 1974 from Brooke High School, earned his bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and […]

10 Years Ago Week of October 6, 2016   SUGAR GROVE   A Good Corn Crop Provided a Happy Year Ahead   President Thomas Jefferson hailed those who tilled the earth, calling them “the chosen people of God, if He had a chosen people.” Corn was destined to become the main crop per hill, leading […]

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (October 21, 2026)  — A Martinsburg, West Virginia man has admitted to his work in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that spanned from Maryland into the Eastern Panhandle.  U.S. Attorney Matt Harvey tells The Panhandle News Network that this week, Stanley Delano Lum, 41, pleaded guilty to a distribution of cocaine charge. According…

Game Time Indianapolis vs. Lincoln (MO) in Jefferson City, MO 12p Hampton vs. Sacred Heart in Fairfield, CT – FloCollege 12p Chicago State vs. N. C. A&T in Greensboro, NC – FloSports 12p West Virginia State vs. Wheeling in Wheeling, WV – MEN 12p Virginia Union vs. Bowie State in Bowie, MD – BulldogsSN 1p […]

Story based on reporting by Metronews News Director Jeff Jenkins CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — A Jefferson County group against the 260-mile Valley Link transmission line project, proposed to go from the John Amos Power Plant in Putnam County northeast across West Virginia and into Virginia, is now armed with research results. Dan McGinn, a Jefferson…