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GLENVILLE, W.Va. – The Glenville State Baseball team dropped their final two games of the 2026 regular season today (May 3), falling to Concord, 3-0 and 5-0, on senior day. The Pioneers will go into the MEC Tournament at (27-21, 16-14 MEC). Game One – GSU 0 | Concord 3It was slow day for both offenses, however, Read More…
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Glenville State Softball added three Pioneers to the All-MEC Second Team today, with Emily Nolan, Kylee Goodman and Shelby McDaniels earning All-Conference honors, the league announced today. Nolan, who fully took over catching duties in 2026, started 50 games for GSU and hit .344 with a .912 OPS, three home runs, 10 doubles and 29 RBIs. The McDonald, Read More…
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – Glenville State Baseball center fielder Jacob Meadows and starting pitcher Grant Landis have earned All-MEC honors, the league announced today. Meadows appeared on the Second Team with Landis notching Honorable Mention. Meadows, a West Virginia native out of Shady Spring, was a top 15 hitter in the Mountain East Conference in 2026. The sophomore outfielder hit .353 Read More…
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – The Glenville State Baseball program has finished third in the Mountain East Conference South Division and will be the No. 3 seed in this week’s MEC Baseball Tournament, the league announced. The Pioneers closed out the regular season (27-21) overall and (16-14) in league play. 2026 marks the second time in three seasons Read More…
WHEELING, W.Va. – Governor Patrick Morrisey today ceremonially signed legislation delivering a 3% pay raise for West Virginia state employees during an event at the Northern Community College Wheeling campus. “Our state workers have earned this raise, and they deserve it,” said Governor Morrisey. “From our teachers and law enforcement officers to our highway workers and first Read More…
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By Gaylen Duskey Not physically far from the old house but decades removed two other people showed their military metal. Back in the 1860s, during the American Civil War, Amos Morgan Peninger got the call like just about everybody else when the country went to war against itself. He remained loyal to the United States Read More…
By Gaylen Duskey From the front porch of the old house where Bernard Pious Bell and Roy D. ‘Red’ Stump lived you could see the roof of a house on the main Hog Knob Ridge road where a little later one – actually it overlapped the time when Stump lived in the house – a Read More…
By Gaylen Duskey The old house sat out a side road overlooking the neighbor’s house on the main road, it was also right around the hill from where a patch of pink lady slipper flowers grew. I remember taking pictures of the pink lady slippers for my flower book which was a required spring rite Read More…
Nelson D. Riffle, 83, of Rosedale, WV; (Shock community) departed this earthly life in the morning hours of Thursday, April 30 2026 at his residence, with his loving family by his side. He was born February 27, 1943 in Monongalia County, WV; son of the late Charles and Pearl (Tucker) Riffle. Those who were blessed Read More…