ST. CLAIRSVILLE – A local quilt shop is helping to raise funds for children’s hospitals through the sale of its cloth facial masks. From Past to Present quilt shop in St. Clairsville has been using its skills to fashion cloth facial coverings for residents. Shop owner Joyce Paglialunga ...
As the old proverb goes, “the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.” Gov. Jim Justice’s plan to used federal coronavirus relief funds for road repair sounds great in theory, but how they think they’re able to use those funds is unclear. I said last week that I would dive into ...
Hair cuts. Massages. Tattoos. Pedicures. Manicures. These were just some of the luxuries lost as businesses faced mandatory shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet as states began to reopen last month, most areas saw the resurgence of these businesses as longtime customers clamored to ...
WHEELING — At the Wheeling Middle School garden, students learn to sow seeds in the spring and grow bounty they feast on later in the year. But life skills might be the most important bounty students gain from the WMS Garden. While the students haven’t been at school in recent months, ...
BETHESDA — To give those who suffer from PTSD a quiet place to celebrate Independence Day, a local rotary club is planning an event this weekend at the Union Local High School gym. Members of the Bethesda-Belmont-Morristown Rotary Club are slated to host the free event Sunday, July 12 ...
WHEELING — An order released this week by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would force international students studying in America to return to their home countries if their college classes all go online this fall due to coronavirus concerns. To remain in the U.S., students must be ...
CANONSBURG, Pa. — Nearly 40% of the miners who were furloughed when Enlow Fork Mine was idled in mid-April will not return to their jobs when the facility reopens. Consol Energy Inc., the mine’s owner, filed a WARN notice this month with the state Department of Labor & Industry, ...
LORDSTOWN – U.S. Sen. Rob Portman wants General Motors to invest in Lordstown Motors Corp. and its manufacturing plant, GM’s former Lordstown assembly facility, where the startup will build its all-electric Endurance pickup truck. “I think it makes all the sense in the world because ...
Ohio County Schools and Usborne Books & More have joined together to get books to students during the summer when they need them the most. The goal was to purchase as many books as possible to give to the students during the weekly meal distribution from Ohio County Schools. Focusing on ...
NEW MARTINSVILLE – A “large gathering” of people at an undisclosed event in Wetzel County in late June has led to a spike in coronavirus cases there, Wetzel-Tyler Health Department Administrator Karen Cain said. Cain declined to say what the gathering involved or where it was located, ...
STEUBENVILLE – Former Diocese of Steubenville comptroller David A. Franklin has been charged by a Jefferson County grand jury with four counts of theft, receiving stolen property, falsification and defrauding creditors. Wednesday’s charges, all felonies, come just one day after Franklin ...
WHEELING – The year 2020 started with a push for vocational education and hands-on learning, but this has been made difficult by COVID-19 threats and students forced into online education at home. More than 60 percent of students at Wheeling Park High School are involved in career-based ...
WHEELING – Even during a global pandemic, sunny summer weather is often too enticing to resist. For many Ohio County residents, the tennis courts and wide-open golf courses at Oglebay Park have become a refuge for people wanting to enjoy time outside while still practicing social distancing ...
WELLSBURG – A recent pandemic-related executive order by Gov. Jim Justice and the report of six new COVID-19 cases within the last few days led Brooke County commissioners to reiterate precautions being taken at the county courthouse and other buildings to prevent spread of the ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Ohio is implementing new regulations and restrictions during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, and local health department officials are planning how those will take effect locally. Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul was interviewing potential staff during ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — David Smith, the mayor of Bridgeport, entered pleas of guilty to third-degree felony theft in office and first-degree misdemeanor conflict of interest occurring from 2016 through 2019. Smith entered his guilty pleas Wednesday before Belmont County Common Pleas Judge John ...
FAYETTEVILLE (AP) — The annual bridge-jumping event in southern West Virginia has been canceled. The Bridge Day Commission announced Wednesday that the Oct. 17 event was called off due to uncertainty about the safety of mass gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of BASE ...
Update: Police have located a man who was last seen Tuesday on Wheeling Island. Robert Jeffery Bailey, 38, was located late Wednesday night and is safe, according to Wheeling police.
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 ...
