The Buckhannon Fire Department launched a new Junior Firefighters Academy

Highland Landscaping and First Community Bank share the Buckhannon Country Club Bob Cupp Memorial Golf League lead at 42½ points after week two wins. Steve Hollen (FCB) took Low Actual with a 38, while Ben Leigh (FCB) and David Powers (Hank Ellis) tied for Low Net at 34.

West Virginia Wesleyan’s men dropped a tight 4-3 Mountain East Conference match to Route 33 rival Davis & Elkins, with playoffs looming and a final regular-season test vs. West Virginia State on April 24. The Bobcat women answered with a dominant 6-1 win in Elkins.

Wesleyan softball powered past Davis & Elkins in a Mountain East Conference doubleheader sweep, 9-1 and 12-1, piling up 21 runs on 25 hits. Morgan Greene and Mackenzie O’Brien tossed complete games as big homers and a 5-RBI day from Emma Putman fueled the surge.

The West Virginia University Funk and Soul Ensemble will perform a free concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, in the Gluck Theater at the WVU Mountainlair.

A federal jury convicted Morgantown nightclub owner Mike Sheriff Scott and two others of a drug conspiracy after evidence showed CowGirlz Nightclub was used to sell and store methamphetamine and fentanyl.

West Virginia’s Bridge Design & Build Competition drew a big crowd to WVU Tech in Beckley, with 29 schools—15 new—bringing middle and high school students from 18 counties.