January Barnesville Chamber Meeting
The January Barnesville Chamber Luncheon is set for Noon, January 14 at the New Life Center, 219 West Church Street.
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Barnesville Police Log
Barnesville Police Log excerpts are created from information gleaned from individual “record reports” provided to Barnesville Area News by the Barnesville Police Department. This report covers the December 29 – January 4 time frame. Monday, December 29, 2025 4:02 am – officer on Pigeon Point Road Warren Township. Caller reported seeing two people going into […]
Belmont Tourism GAP Grants Available
The Belmont County Tourism Council Board of Directors is pleased to announce that the annual Grant Assistance Program (GAP Grant) is now accepting applications for 2026.
State Theater Hosts Winter Frost Gala 2025
On a nippy December evening, the State Theater Company once again transformed the Barnesville Elks’ ballroom into an enchanted site for dining, dancing and socializing.
Publication Promotes Barnesville as Retiree Location
Another outside publication has discovered Barnesville. Last year the community was selected as one of Ohio’s Best Hometowns.
Belmont Farm Bureau Delegates Attend Annual Meeting
Four delegates from the Belmont County Farm Bureau attended the 107th Annual Meeting of the Ohio Farm Bureau in Columbus on Dec. 11 – 12.
2026 Barnesville Chamber Meetings Set
The Barnesville Chamber’s monthly luncheon meeting schedule for 2026 is set. Some meeting locations will be announced nearer that meeting date. All meetings are scheduled to begin at Noon.
Grant Will Help Add Black Horse Inn and Captina to National Underground Railroad Network
Kristina Estle, manger of the Underground Railroad Museum that will move from Flushing to Morristown this fall, announces a successful grant application to research and submit Morristown’s Black Horse and the site of the free Captina African American Community in Somerset Township south of Barnesville to the National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom sites.
Twice-Told Tales Redux
Travel back in time through the pages of the former Barnesville Enterprise and Barnesville Whetstone newspapers.
Enterprise Album
Nancy Hanes Wildman explored the downtown snow mounds following the big Thanksgiving Snow of 1950. [Photo provided by Dal Wildman]