Pumpkin Tab Available Online
The 72-page 2025 Barnesville Pumpkin Festival Tab is available online on the festival’s official website.
Committee Brings Pumpkin Market to Pumpkin Festival
The Barnesville Pumpkin Festival’s new Pumpkin Market is ready for visitors to explore vendors and children’s activities.
Visitors may find this Pumpkin Market in the East Main Street parking lot between Avenues of Barnesville and Cheffy Drugs.
Barnesville Schools: October Menus Released
Barnesville Schools Director of Food and Nutrition, Brian Saner, shared the October breakfast and lunch menus. Remember that all students can eat breakfast and lunch for free this year. Extras are available for an additional charge.
BHS Musical Round One: Bracket #4
During the chamber choir class, Music Instructor Devin Blair announces the winners for bracket #4. Round One to determine this year’s high school musical has been completed.
Pumpkin Daily Delights: Wednesday’s Festival Highlights
Here are Pumpkin Festival highlights for Wednesday, September 24.
Kathryn Lenore Stafford
Kathryn Lenore Stafford, age 81 of Sebring, passed away at Crandell Medical Center on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. Kathryn was born in Greenville, Pennsylvania, on October 20, 1943, to the late J. D. Murray and Marion (Sweet) McLean. Kathryn was employed by Minerva Local Schools as an elementary teacher for 33.5 years. She was a […]
Veterans Honored at Quilts of Valor Presentation
On Monday night in the Barnesville Middle School Gymnasium, the Ohio Valley Quilts of Valor honored twenty-two veterans, awarding each with a handmade quilt at the Eyes of Freedom Opening Ceremony. The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is to cover all combat service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing […]
Patricia Ann (Froehlich) Yarnall
Patricia “Patsy” Ann (Froehlich) Yarnall, 93, Barnesville, longtime Somerton resident, passed away September 23, 2025 at Emerald Pointe Nursing and Rehab Center. She was born in Somerset Twp., Belmont County, May 30, 1932, the daughter of the late Fred Froehlich and Freda Ackerman Froehlich. She was a 1950 graduate of Somerset Twp. High School, Somerton. […]
Rod Dillehay
Rodney “Rod” Dillehay, 64, passed away September 8, 2025, in Brooksville, Florida after a brief illness. Born to his Mom, Sandra Carlson in 1960 in Shelby Ohio, Rod had very fond memories of growing up in Barnesville, Ohio and always considered himself a 1978 BHS graduate even though a divorce sent him to another town […]
The Barnesville School District Welcomes New Food Director
Brian Saner has joined Barnesville schools as he provides nutrition, appealing food and culture through the food service company, The Nutrition Group.
The Nutrition Group provides comprehensive food service management for K-12 schools, partnering with hundreds of school districts across several states. The group handles menu planning, nutrition compliance, staffing, food prep and service.