Coal Valley News

12/07/2025

After a 3-12-4 campaign in 2024, the Scott High School boys' soccer team has their minds on redemption this year.

12/07/2025

The Sherman High School girls' soccer team endured a winless 0-12 season in 2024, but 11th-year head coach Angie Lilly knows her squad works hard and she is hopeful they can make amends for it this year.

08/07/2025

The Scott High School boys' basketball team will see much of the same teams on their 2025-2026 schedule that they did a year ago, when they went 15-9 and fell one game shy of the state tournament after a 44-41 home loss to Buffalo in a Class AA Region 4 co-final.

08/07/2025

Sherman High School volleyball head coach Terri Dawn Williams said her team has been working hard this summer with the mindset of improving off last season and bringing home a state championship in 2025.

07/07/2025

Scott High School Assistant Cross County Coach John Baldwin recently participated in the Western States Endurance Run in Olympic Valley (Calif.), which is considered to be the most prestigious race in the United States and was one of the first 100-mile trail races in the country.

07/07/2025

At the Tuesday, July 1 meeting, the Boone County Commission participated in a work session with representatives of the Boone County Ambulance Authority and Whitesville Ambulance Service, who outlined the major issues their agencies are facing.

01/07/2025

The Van High School football program has been forced to fold for the upcoming 2025 season due to a lack of numbers, according to Vice Principal Brian Woodie.

01/07/2025

FOSTER — In a ceremony Monday, June 30, Raleigh County native Allen Sexton was sworn in as the permanent superintendent of Boone County Schools, replacing former superintendent Matt Riggs.

30/06/2025

The 100-year anniversary celebration of the Madison Rotary Club will take place on July 26 at 6:30 p.m. The event will take place inside the WV Training & Conference Center at 431 Running Right Way in Julian and will honor a century of dedicated service to the community.

30/06/2025

A Boone County man has been charged with reckless driving, fleeing on foot, fleeing with reckless indifference, fleeing while under the influence of drugs, possession with intent to deliver co***ne and hydrocodone, speeding and obstructing after police say he fled from them in a car, crashed…

A Boone County man has been charged with reckless driving, fleeing on foot, fleeing with reckless indifference, fleeing while under the influence of drugs, possession with intent to deliver co***ne and hydrocodone, speeding and obstructing after police say he fled from them in a car, crashed and the...

30/06/2025

FOSTER — Since the Boone County Board of Education is currently taken over by the West Virginia Board of Education, State Superintendent of Schools Michele Blatt pre-approved a quote of $22,685.88 to install a new 3-ton Roof Top HVAC unit at Sherman Elementary School.

30/06/2025

The West Virginia Department of Tourism added an “Almost Heaven” swing at Drawdy Falls Park in Peytona, an idea the Boone County Commission pursued in 2024.

The West Virginia Department of Tourism added an "Almost Heaven" swing at Drawdy Falls Park in Peytona, an idea the Boone County Commission pursued in 2024.