JN Guest Photographer /Ripley Officer/ Volunteer Fire Fighter Jamie Hart submitted these images of two-car crash photos from the scene on Monday, June 17.

JN Reminder: Ravenswood City Council will meet Tuesday, June 18 to discuss and possibly pass items on the agenda.

RIPLEY - The Ripley high School Viking football team has now had a little time to get to know their new head coach, David Tennant.Ripley’s 22nd head coach comes to the Vikings via two seasons at Eastern High (OH) and a short stint as an assistant at Ripley prior to that position.The Vikings are coming off...

RIPLEY - There's nothing quite like a good hot dog. Or, a good burger. Or, a good bratwurst.Especially when they are coming right off the grill.Some of the best are dished out by street vendors in metropolitan areas.Dan Davila has brought the flare of the big city sidewalks to quaint little Ripley on the...

VIENNA – Among the Mid Ohio Valley Sports Hall of Fame's Class of '13, three were women. All three are linked to Jackson County and were honored Saturday night at the Grand Pointe Conference and Reception Center during the induction banquet.One-time Ripley High Lady Viking softball and basketball great Ashli White...

MARIETTA – For Brad Titus and Quaseem Fields, it was a tune-up for the next level.For Dillon Gandee and Ryan Whytsell, it signaled the end. Those were the story lines for Jackson County’s four partipants in the 20th Annual Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis Ohio-West Virginia All-Star Football Classic played Friday...

RAVENSWOOD - Good players show up in big games. Kendall Bowen did just that for her First Federal Wildcat team as they beat Lloyds Electronics in the 2013 (9-12) Ravenswood Little League Softball Championship on May 31.Bowen wasn't alone in her actions. She had help from her teammates. Mykayla Smith led off the bottom of the...

RIPLEY – Jackson County Superintendent of Schools Blaine Hess has received a favorable evaluation from members of the Jackson County Board of Education. Hess is completing his seventh year as superintendent.The board completed its evaluation of Hess at its June 6, 2013 meeting. Following an evaluation...

RIPLEY - West Virginia’s oldest heritage fair, the Mountain State Art and Craft Fair (MSACF), will take place Thursday July 4 – Saturday July 6, at Cedar Lakes Conference Center in Ripley, WV. Celebrating its 50th year, the MSACF began in 1963 as part of West Virginia’s Centennial celebration. That year the fair...

RIPLEY – The Ripley High School baseball team was victorious in an 8-2 romp over Marietta High at Ray Swisher Field at Viking Park on Friday night. The scrimmage game brought the Vikes record to (1-1).Sophomore-to-be lefty Logan McCoy was particularly stingy on this night as he has been in his young Viking pitching...

INSTITUTE – When Daryl Hicks suits up for the South Cardinals on Saturday night in the annual WCHS-TV/FOX 11 North-South All-Star Football Classic, he will be playing for not only himself, but more importantly his older brother, David.A year ago, David Hicks had been chosen for the annual contest that brings together...

RIPLEY - The season began with a positive energy and an infectious enthusiasm earlier this spring for the Ripley High Softball team. The squad was coming off of a 17 win season a year ago and while the team lost four seniors from last season, there was an abundance of talent in the middle school pipeline to help ease that burden for...

MARIETTA - Quaseem Fields is feeling quite nostalgic as he walks onto the gridiron for the last time Friday night as a high school player.Fields is participating in the annual Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis West Virginia-Ohio Football Classic at Marietta's Don Drumm Stadium.Jackson County will send four players. Ravenswood...

RAVENSWOOD – Ravenswood High's Dillon Gandee will take the field on Friday night for the last time as he and three fellow Jackson County gridders will participate in the annual Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis West Virginia-Ohio Football Classic at Marietta's Don Drumm Stadium.Jackson County produced four players.

RIPLEY - The Mountain State Athletic Conference released its 2013  All MSAC squad this week and five Ripley Vikings garnered recognition.Freshman shortstop Christopher Jordan took top honors. Jordan hit (.341) and was second on the team with (18) walks. He led Ripley with 30 runs scored while notching 11 doubles, three...

RAVENSWOOD – Four members of Coach Cindy Carmichael's Ravenswood Red Devilette softball team (9-13) have been selected for Class AA All-State honors for 2013.Juniors Katie Buckbee and Sidnee Morgan were named to the Class AA All-State Second Team. Buckbee was named as one of three Second Team Utility players.

COTTAGEVILLE - It's finally here Jackson County…this year's Relay For Life event at the Jackson County Junior Fairgrounds tomorrow night (Friday, June 7) at 6pm. This year promises to be more exciting than ever before. With the new location and more added excitement for everyone, more people are getting involved and...

RAVENSWOOD - Fear is defined as an unpleasant emotional state consisting of psychological and psycho-physiological responses to a real external threat or danger.On Friday afternoon at the Ravenswood City Pool, a lifeguard and a nurse had little time to be fearful. They had to react.Lifeguard Damian Morriston is a 2012...

RIPLEY - Webster's Dictionary defines the word "shooter" as one who drives or sends with force. Levi Staats has the strength and skill to do that with accuracy.The teen is soft spoken, mannerly and intelligent. He speaks with passion about his chosen craft.Staats was named to the National Archery in the Schools...

RIPLEY - Ripley High School had four softball players recognized by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association as the Class AAA squad was released last week.Earning First Team honors was junior pitcher Chelsey Hager. Hager ended her season with a "sub one" earned run average on the hill while batting (.378) for the blue...

EASTWOOD – Coach Cindy Carmichael's Ravenswood Red Devilettes made strides in the right direction on the softball diamond in 2013 and will return their entire team with the exception of senior first baseman/pitcher Holly Chiles for 2014. That coupled with an expected influx of freshman talent should bode well. The...

RIPLEY - Former Ripley High 3-time State Wrestling champion and 2-time collegiate All American (West Liberty) Mitch Smith will host the first annual Alderson Broaddus College Commuter Wrestling Camp from June 17-21 in the Ripley High auxiliary gym.Smith, who was named the head coach at AB in 2012 will send his first squad...

RAVENSWOOD – Brad Titus views Friday night's Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis West Virginia-Ohio Football Classic as a great way to get in the football frame of mind before he heads off to Glenville State College this August.The standout linebacker can also get accustomed to wearing blue after many, many years of red...

SANDYVILLE - Veterans, relatives and government officials gathered at Indepenence Cemetery Monday afternoon to dedicate the new veterans memorial there.Randall Bare, newly elected chairman of the West Virginia Veterans Council, served as master of ceremonies for the dedication which included the singing of the Star Spangled...

VIENNA - For a team that overcame so many speed bumps along the way it was a disappointing ride back to Jackson County for blue and white faithful as Ripley was bounced from the Class AAA State Softball Tournament on Wednesday.Ripley fell to Jefferson in game one, 3-2 and suffered an 8-3 setback to Wheeling Park in game two that...

CINCINNATI, OH - As local high schools have ended their play on the baseball diamond, summer league play is just getting underway for Jackson County based baseball and softball players.One team, The West Virginia Swarm, includes six 14U Ripley area sluggers on its roster and is coached by Jon Casto and Kenny Swisher.

MARIETTA, OH – Marietta’s Don Drumm Stadium will serve as the venue for a second straight year when the annual Battle Against Cystic Fibrosis West Virginia-Ohio Football Classic takes place on June 7. This year’s game will be the 20th BACF Classic which features some of the top senior football players from the...

RIPLEY - Ripley High School's 2013 State Tournament softball team had six girls receive recognition from the Mountain State Athletic Conference for their superb play in the field and at the dish.Junior Dusti Fisher took top honors by landing on the first team as an outfielder. Fisher batted (.385) and played a virtually...

RAVENSWOOD – The 27th Annual Ohio River Basketball Camp of Champions will be held June 10-13 at Ravenswood High School's old gym, "The Pit." This year the camp will feature WVIAC all-time great and Harlem Globetrotter Archie Talley on Tuesday at 10 a.m.The camp is for boys and girls entering grades 3-8 and will be...

RIPLEY - With spring sports winding down, local hoops camps will be taking place as we enter the summer. Ripley girls basketball coach Justin Frashier has announced the dates for the second annual Road to CCC (Charleston Civic Center) Girls Basketball Camp.The camp will run from June 6 through June 8 with Championship...

RIPLEY – When it comes to the 2013 recipients of Ripley High School's two Athlete of the Year awards, you could say one followed nicely in the footsteps of an older brother while the other quite possibly started a family tradition for two younger sisters.At the annual Formal Awards Assembly last Friday inside the...

GAME ONERipley 0000011 - 2 2 1Jefferson 0000012 - 3 7 5Hager and Mellinger; Witt and Shepherd.WP - Witt (7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 6 K, 1 BB). LP - Hager (6 2/3 IP, 7 H, 10 K, 3...

RIPLEY - The Ripley High softball team have proven to be a quite obstinate lot. The squad has fought through injuries, inexperience and one tough pitching duel after another. After the smoke has cleared, coach Swisher's crew finds themselves within striking distance of their second Class AAA State Championship in four years as they...

RIPLEY – The last time Ripley reached the West Virginia Girls State High School Softball Tournament it turned out to be historic. The Lady Vikings captured the 2009 Class AAA state championship, marking the first-ever for Ripley High in a girls varsity sport.The title was the third team championship for the school...

CHARLESTON – "In the money"When it comes to horse racing terms that means a top three finish. On the day of the Preakness – the second leg of horse racing's triple crown – Ravenswood High's Hailey Miller was indeed "In the money." In what was the 39th edition of the West Virginia...

CHARLESTON – With a still growing track and field program, Jason Ward was certainly happy with the eight points his Ripley Vikings put on the board over the weekend at the 99th Annual West Virginia Boys State Track and Field Meet inside UC Stadium.Those points were produced both on the track and in the field.

RAVENSWOOD - The 2013 Ravenswood Red Devil baseball team took tremendous strides. In fact, no other team in the state of West Virginia in any class can boast the turnaround of the Red Devils. In 20012, the Ravenswood posted a (3-22) record and were "mercy ruled" 18 times. This season, first year head coach Wes Swain led the red...