News-style updates from local businesses around Buckhannon — sales, events, hiring, and announcements.
Every can of soup dropped off at Kelley Tierney State Farm in Buckhannon through Oct. 31 will be matched with a second can, as the agency’s ninth annual Soup Drive stocks the Upshur County Schools Backpack Program for students’ weekends and breaks.
Medicare open enrollment runs Oct. 15 to Dec. 7, and local independent insurance agent Jeff Barnhart is offering appointments to help residents review their 2027 coverage options. He reviews plans one-on-one to provide the best options for clients.
Morgan Nesland, PA-C, has joined WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital as a pediatric provider at St. Joseph’s Rural Health Clinic in Buckhannon, where she is accepting new patients from newborns through age 18.
Dogs will be $50 and cats $25 at an Oct. 17 adoption day at Lewis-Upshur Animal Control in Buckhannon, where LUV 4 Animals and Jenkins Subaru invite visitors to walk a dog or hold a kitten before they decide.
Light is no longer the only way astronomers study the universe. “Messengers of Time and Space,” the WVWC Planetarium show at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3 in Christopher Hall, looks at what gravitational waves, neutrinos and cosmic rays are revealing.
WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital and Buckhannon Upshur Rotary will offer $35 blood screenings by appointment Oct. 10-31 in Buckhannon and Nov. 7 in Rock Cave. Optional tests are available, and participants must fast for 12 hours.
WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital will host a drive-through flu clinic Oct. 9 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vaccines are available for ages 7 and older, with a high-dose option for seniors; Medicare patients pay nothing, while others pay $30 or $90.
Wilson Martino Dental’s Buckhannon office at 19 E. Main Street says a patient with a dental emergency will be seen within 24 hours of calling, and most of the time the same day. Its “We Cater to Cowards” approach features everything from gentle-injection options to drill-less fillings for anxious patients.
A spacecraft chased a comet for 10 years, then dropped a lander onto it. “Rosetta,” the WVWC Planetarium show at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5 in Christopher Hall, retraces the mission that pulled it off.
Podiatrists Jennifer Michael, DPM, and Addison Michael, DPM, are accepting new patients at four clinics — Buckhannon, Elkins, Flatwoods and Weston — bringing foot and ankle surgery, wound care and diabetic foot care within reach across central West Virginia.
Family medicine physician Andrew Colebank, DO, has joined WVU Medicine St. Joseph’s Hospital at the Brushy Fork Rural Health Clinic in Buckhannon, where he is now scheduling patients of all ages for appointments beginning in October.
My Buckhannon’s free weekly football pick ’em is back for 2026 with a rebuilt page, pick stats that go public once they lock and a leaderboard that crowns a season champion. Seven high school and college games a week, no entry fee and no password to sign in.
