Lady Bucs take first place in weekly home meet

Vandalia Health Mon Medical Center is among the first in the U.S. to use Abbott’s Volt pulsed field ablation system for atrial fibrillation, pairing it with real-time intracardiac echocardiography to boost precision and cut X-ray use.

Here’s everything that’s buzzing in Buckhannon this week!

Inspired by the Phineas Gage story, West Virginia native Isabella Linton followed her curiosity into a double major in neuroscience and psychology at WVU.

Buckhannon crews have finished the sanitary sewer replacement behind Citizens Bank and completed the stormwater leg of a multi-month Chestnut Street upgrade project.

Patty L. Andrus, 84, of Buckhannon, died April 20, 2026, at United Hospital Center in Bridgeport. She was a beautician, homemaker, caretaker and volunteer who enjoyed studying the Bible, gardening and time with family.

Eddy Lynn Farnsworth, 73, of Buckhannon, WV, died on April 20, 2026, at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and was a school bus driver in Upshur County.