MOUNDSVILLE — Due to public health concerns over COVID-19 and a lack of suitable gathering space, Marshall County’s seniors will have their graduation ceremony broadcast this weekend rather than hold an in-person commencement. School administrators held John Marshall and Cameron high ...
(AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched an all-out effort to reopen schools this fall, arguing that some are keeping schools closed not because of the coronavirus pandemic, but for political reasons against the will of families. “We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. ...
WHEELING – A $30 million streetscape project for downtown Wheeling could go out to bid by the end of 2020, according to Gabe Hays, director at the Wallace-Pancher Group in St. Clairsville. Hays and Charlie Swart, design engineer with District 6 for the West Virginia Department of ...
MOUNDSVILLE – Moundsville’s city leaders have selected three residents to join them on the city’s new Arts and Culture Commission. The city council approved the appointments Kathy Fox, Nick Healy and Joy VanScyoc during its Tuesday night meeting. They will join council members Breanna ...
WHEELING – The Ziegenfelder Company announced owner Lisa Allen and operation manager Breanna Humphries were recently named two of the 2020 Top Women in Grocery. Each year since 2007, Progressive Grocer has recognized women who strengthen the retail food industry by giving back to their ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – The city is continuing some events and projects despite the COVID-19 pandemic, modifying them when possible to meet social distancing requirements. The annual St. Clairsville Summer Concert series was set to begin Tuesday night at the amphitheatre with the band The Muddle, ...
CHARLESTON — With coronavirus cases coming in higher the last five days than at any point during the worst of the outbreak, Gov. Jim Justice ordered Monday that masks be worn indoors. Justice, speaking during a coronavirus briefing Monday ...
MOUNDSVILLE — Two longtime members of the Marshall County Board of Education were sworn back to their posts Monday night. John Miller, first elected in 2012, and Lori Kestner, first elected in 2004, return for another four-year term. Miller was re-elected as board president by vote of board ...
WHEELING — Ohio County teachers — as well as those across West Virginia — are expressing concerns with a return to school in a coronavirus era. They have asked school administrators: Will there be enough protective equipment for students and staff? Also, they wonder how they quickly ...
(AP) — Billionaire West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family businesses received at least $11.1 million from a federal rescue package meant to keep small businesses afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, according to data released by the Treasury Department on Monday. Justice, a Republican, ...
CHARLESTON — The companies behind the $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline project announced the cancellation of the project Sunday, taking state leaders by surprises. According to a statement from Dominion Energy and Duke Energy Sunday afternoon, the pipeline project to bring natural gas from ...
MARTINS FERRY – The Justice Bus will be in Belmont County at the GRACE Presbyterian Church in Martins Ferry for the bi-monthly Free Legal Clinic. The Ohio Justice Bus is a mobile legal aid office and technology hotspot that allows attorneys to travel through the state and provide legal ...
WOODSFIELD – After two decades in the works the Ohio & Lee Water & Sewer company’s wastewater project remains at a standstill. The utility company’s wastewater system is in need of major upgrades. The project has been discussed for the past 20 years, but due to high repair costs ...
Now that restaurants and bars across the country are slowly reopening, experimenting with limited capacities and social distancing guidelines in their dining rooms, patrons have been wrestling with whether they feel comfortable to sit at an indoor eating space that isn’t their home. Oren ...
WHEELING – Local nursing and assisted living homes haven’t changed visitation guidelines as local coronavirus numbers see an increase. Visitation at senior living centers was prohibited during much of the spring amid fears of the coronavirus spreading among residents. Restrictions, ...
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS For The Intelligencer CHARLESTON -- The companies behind the $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline project announced the cancellation of the project Sunday, taking state leaders by surprises. According to a statement from Dominion Energy and Duke Energy Sunday ...
Masks mandatory indoors after weekend spike in coronavirus cases CHARLESTON - With coronavirus cases coming in higher the last five days than at any point during the worst of the outbreak last spring, Gov. Jim Justice ordered Monday that masks be worn indoors effective at midnight this ...
WHEELING — The ink has hardly dried on the closing paperwork in which the city of Wheeling took ownership of the former Ohio Valley Medical Center Property, but city council is set to move forward with design work for new headquarters to house its police and fire departments. On Tuesday ...
WHEELING — Outbreaks at several churches across West Virginia have contributed to some of the rising COVID-19 numbers in the state, including in Marshall and Ohio counties. While there hasn’t been an issue at Ash Avenue Church of God in Moundsville, they are still prepared, Pastor C.J. ...
The inability to attend church each week has been one of the most affecting consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to social distancing guidelines, it’s been nearly impossible for congregations around the country to gather in ways they were accustomed to prior to the COVID-19 ...
