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Crash Damages Signal, Closes U.S. 22 Ramp In Steubenville

STEUBENVILLE — City Engineer Mike Dolak said the University Boulevard/U.S. 22 East ramp from State Route 7 north is temporarily closed while he determines how long it will take to repair damage caused by a two-car collision Saturday at the marina entrance. Police allege a northbound driver, identified as Samuel Byrom, of New Comerstown, Ohio, “ran the red light” and crashed into the passenger side of a southbound vehicle, severely damaging both vehicles and destroying the signal box that controls the traffic light, as well as the railroad crossing bars. Until it is working again, ...

SLIDESHOW: Clouds Clear and Music Soars at BluesFest

WHEELING – Thousands of music lovers flocked to Heritage Port this weekend as the 25th Heritage Music BluesFest delivered a weekend packed with live music and more. Fans from the Ohio Valley joined visitors from more than two dozen states across the nation in the Friendly City for the ...

Crowds Seeks Culture, Food At Mahrajan – A Lebanese Festival

Poor communication clouds TANF funding debate

The issues raised about structural deficits in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program since May and the pivot to accusations of fraud in the School Clothing Allowance program could be taught as a master class in how not to communicate. Let's start with May, when Gov. Patrick Morrisey first announced the TANF structural deficit. I've frequently written about this, but in short: An influx of federal COVID-era dollars flooded into state TANF programs, causing TANF-funded programs to expand and sizable TANF carryover funds to accumulate. When the federal COVID dollars dried ...

Pugliese grant funding helping move Grand Theatre restoration forward

STEUBENVILLE — Scott Dressel has come to see change as his friend. Sixteen years into his all-consuming crusade to see Steubenville’s historic Grand Theatre restored, Dressel figures every time he can scratch an item off the to-do list it gets his devoted corps of volunteers, the ...

Academy Sports + Outdoors Celebrates Grand Opening

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Customers didn’t let the rain deter them from Academy Sports + Outdoors' grand opening on Friday morning. At 7:45 a.m. customers lined the sidewalk to get their first look at the Ohio Valley Mall’s newest store. As the first 150 customers walked into the store they ...