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Keeping Highways Safe, Flag Burning Double Standard

Still Too Many

The 6-State Trooper Project that included Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, took 331 drunk or impaired drivers off the roads over the Dec. 2-4 weekend.  The 6-State Trooper Project is a multi-state law enforcement partnership aimed at providing combined and coordinated law enforcement and security services in the areas of highway safety, criminal patrol and intelligence sharing. Their efforts show just how dangerous the highways can be as more than 300 impaired drivers got behind the wheel. Please designate a sober driver over the upcoming holidays. The life you save may be your own.

Put That Fire Out

A longtime reader of this newspaper had to share his exasperation over people burning the American flag — without any legal or criminal consequences. Put aside the Constitution for a moment and pay attention to the actual act of burning a flag. The reader pointed out that in order to be allowed to open burn brush within the city limits of Wheeling requires an open burning permit from the Wheeling Fire Department. Here are some of the requirements to legally burn — say for instance, a brush pile in the city limits: You must notify the fire department before and after you burn; notify the West Virginia Air Pollution Control agency daily for permission to burn; fire cannot be larger than 5 feet by 5 feet with a working garden hose nearby; fire must be at least 50 feet from any structure; putting out the fire is your responsibility; burning is only permitted during daylight hours. But anyone can burn a flag anywhere, anytime?

Music for a Cause

Grand Vue Park will begin its Winter Concert Series with Miller Smith & Mazure in the Banquet Hall Tuesday from 6:30-8 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. Grand Vue  will be collecting non-perishable items and canned goods for the Feeding Body and Soul Community Kitchen during the event.

Live Christmas

Ash Avenue Church of God held its first live nativity this weekend at the Moundsville location.

Old Buffalo Wild Wings Now Vacant

The year 1999 doesn’t seem that long ago to most of us, but it was long ago enough that Buffalo Wild Wings saw it necessary to relocate from its original position in the Ohio Valley Plaza to a brand new location outside the Ohio Valley Mall. The final destiny of the original restaurant on the north side of Interstate 70 remains uncertain, as it now sits vacant. Hopefully, a new development proposal for this location will soon emerge.

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