Steed Family Tradition: Sharing Halloween Fun With Community
Since 2019, Fran and Jason Steed, along with other family members, have transformed their home on N. Arch St. into a spooktacular Halloween display with games, prizes, and candy.
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Football Tickets and Game Day Logistics
Tickets are now on sale online for Friday’s matchup between the Wheelersburg Pirates and the Barnesville Shamrocks. The school’s Barnesville Shamrock Athletics Facebook page also provides game day information on the parking and stadium. “We’re hitting the road for our playoff matchup at Wheelersburg this week! Let’s pack the stands and show our Shamrock pride!” […]
Barnesville Shamrock Athletics Nov. 10 – 16
The Shamrocks will be active this week. Winter sports programs get underway and the Varsity Football Team travels south to take on the Wheelersburg Pirates for Region 19, Division V football semi-final play Friday night.
An Appalachian Mile in His Shoes
by Lydia Fuchs, “FFA in the USA” News Reporter, written originally on October 24, 2025 The starter’s pistol cracks, and runners surge into the first hill. Gravel crunches underfoot as Coach Mark Brown stands at the edge of the course, stopwatch in hand, steady as ever. Long before he coached his first race, though, Brown […]
Barnesville School District Working to Achieve STEAM Designation
The Barnesville Exempted Village School District is looking to earn an official Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Designation for its effort in hands-on and project based learning.
Out with Fall, In with ‘St. Nick”
Barnesville Cemetery workers were busy Monday afternoon adding lighted wreaths to the decorative street lights downtown Barnesville.
State Theater Gains Movie Screen
Thanks to the generosity of Barnesville State Theater’s friends at the Monroe Theater, a movie projection screen is now part of the local venue, another step towards returning movies, live events, and other activities to the century old movie house.
World War II Veteran Guy Atkinson: Read and Remember His Story
Guy Junior Atkinson was born on March 16, 1923, in Barnesville, Ohio, to Guy and Sarah Atkinson. His father was a blacksmith. Guy was one of seven sons and one daughter. Atkinson was drafted into the U.S. Army on January 16, 1943, and served in World War II as an infantry rifleman. After training in […]
Five Atkinson Brothers Served in WW II
Guy and Sarah Atkinson raised a family of seven sons and one daughter in Barnesville on North Broadway Street. All seven boys served in the military overseas. Five saw combat. Five were in World War II and two were in Korea. All returned safely. During World War II, The Barnesville Enterprise wrote a column each […]
Contested Races, Levies Drive Voter Turnout
Voter turnout in Belmont County Tuesday was 24.5% according to figures released by the Board of Elections. A total of 10,659 votes were cast. Of these, 75 percent cast votes on election day and 25 percent either voted early or submitted absentee ballots.