Office Information
WVU Extension Service
Hancock County Office
New Cumberland Municipal Building
104 N. Court St. #203
P. O. Box 457
New Cumberland, WV 26047-0457
Phone 304-564-3805 or 3807
Fax 304-564-5047
Office hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-4:30
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People in Your Community… Knowledge at Your Doorstep
Welcome to the Hancock County Office of the West Virginia University Extension Service. Our office and this Website are here to help you.
Our office provides many local educational programs to area families, businesses, and communities. These include agricultural knowledge, horticulture with the Master Gardeners, and 4-H programs, which are the most well-known aspects of the Extension Service. However, the organization today covers most aspects of rural and urban life in West Virginia. So, our county programs include Meet the Plants, Bank at School, and Bubbleology. We are also your link to other WVU Extension offices and to West Virginia University colleges and offices. WVU’s Hancock County Extension Office is part of the national land-grant system. Each office has the same mission as its foundation: to help people put knowledge to work.
Part of the National Cooperative Extension System with more than 3,000 county offices in the USA, the National Cooperative Extension System is the local front door for many citizens to their state land-grant institutions.All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation’s more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities including WVU, have another critical mission: Extension. Extension means reaching out, and along with teaching and research land-grant institutions extend their resources, solving public needs with college or university resources through local programs. To meet and support the needs of local people and communities, county faculty and staff involve local residents in developing and leading specific programs and activities.
WVU Serving all 55 of West Virginia’s Counties
WVU Extension Service provides programs in 4-H Youth Development, Families and Health, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Community, Economic and Workforce Development with support from West Virginia University faculty and staff. WVU also maintains a historic special-mission campus at WVU Jackson’s Mill Center for Lifelong Learning and State 4-H Camp, near Weston, West Virginia.
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Extension knowledge can also be found online anytime, through eXtension, a Web portal to the nation’s largest educational and information system staffed by Extension experts. Click the button below to give it a try!
A volunteer, Marian Coady-Donaldson helps provide one on one reading with an Energy Express Child. One on one is a technique used to help build reading skills and self confidence in the child. Click here for more Energy Express Pictures from Weirton and Chester.
The first Hancock County Cloverbud Camp is history
Twenty-five cloverbuds in Chester learned about water, air, the five senses, our environment and sound. They played games, performed experiments, sang songs and made new friends.
The next camp will be in New Cumberland at the City Building July 26-30. We still have a few spaces left!!
for more pictures click here
LIVING WREATH CLASS
On June 26 our Tri-State Area Master Gardeners held a Living Wreath Make and Take Class. The participants leaned how to make beautiful living wreaths from herbs, succulents and other plants to decorate their yard and home.
Photos by Nita Resler
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