CRAIG HOWELL
NEW CUMBERLAND The county’s parks board is planning for a busy year, with a variety of events and efforts to establish certified wildlife habitats in the county.
Hancock County commissioners, during their meeting Thursday, heard from Mary Thorn, member of the Hancock County Parks and Recreation Board, to present some of the plans.
“We have a lot on our plate,” Thorn explained.
Among the projects currently discussed by the board would be applying for the county’s parks to be certified as wildlife habitats through the National Wildlife Federation.
“No other communities in West Virginia have become certified,” she said.
By the time you have settled in to start reading this, the new year will have arrived.
Like every year, 2021 will bring with it a sense of hope, a feeling that the future ahead of us is at least a little brighter than the past that is behind us.
That’s especially true after 2020, a year that brought us COVID-19 and its accompanying restrictions and regulations that kept us pretty much inside and isolated from friends and family for much of the year.
Thankfully, the much-anticipated vaccines have arrived and, if all goes according to numerous plans, by the end of summer or perhaps earlier we should see most of those restrictions lifted, which means we will be able to return to lives that include gathering with friends and family, enjoying more meals in restaurants and attending numerous community events, from concerts to dinners to worship services, that bring us together.
By the time you have settled in to start reading this, the new year will have arrived.
Like every year, 2021 will bring with it a sense of hope, a feeling that the future ahead of us is at least a little brighter than the past that is behind us.
That’s especially true after 2020, a year that brought us COVID-19 and its accompanying restrictions and regulations that kept us pretty much inside and isolated from friends and family for much of the year.
Thankfully, the much-anticipated vaccines have arrived and, if all goes according to numerous plans, by the end of summer or perhaps earlier we should see most of those restrictions lifted, which means we will be able to return to lives that include gathering with friends and family, enjoying more meals in restaurants and attending numerous community events, from concerts to dinners to worship services, that bring us together.
Dec 17, 2020
In a ceremony on the front steps of the Hancock County Courthouse, Monday, Eron Chek was sworn in as a member of the Hancock County Commission. Chek, right, is the first woman to hold the office in Hancock County history. She is pictured with Deputy Clerk Valerie Truax. (Photo by Stephanie Ujhelyi)
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Dec 17, 2020
Hancock County Deputy Clerk Valerie Truax (left) administers the oath of office to an unmasked Eron Chek (right) Monday morning on the front steps of the Hancock County Courthouse, as Chek prepares to take office on Jan. 1 as the county’s first female county commissioner. For Chek, the decision to get sworn in unmasked generated some controversy, as Judge Ronald E. Wilson reportedly refused to do so for his own safety. Several days before, Chek posted to her Facebook page that he didn’t “consider himself safe enough by wearing a mask or other PPE himself and using a plastic barrier between the two of us.” On the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment, which provided women the right to vote, Chek believed that “symbolically (she) would be representing the muzzling of the women in leadership if I allowed myself to be bullied this way,” thus Truax swore her in outside the building, as posted signage required entrants into the courthouse to wear a