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Steubenville Youth Conferences Receive Special Message From Pope Leo XIV

STEUBENVILLE — Thousands of Catholic teens attending the 50th anniversary season of the Steubenville Youth Conferences received an unexpected greeting this week when Pope Leo XIV appeared on screen with a special message encouraging them to seek authentic peace, perfect joy and God's call for their lives. The recorded eight-minute video debuted June 19 before young people gathered at Franciscan University of Steubenville and satellite conference locations in Denver, Dallas and Orlando. It will be shown throughout the summer to more than 43,000 participants attending Steubenville Youth ...

Pauls Reflects On Tenure As Brooke BOE Turns Page

WELLSBURG — Members of the Brooke County Board of Education thanked their longtime president for his dedication to the district during Monday's meeting. "Your leadership, commitment and unwavering support for the students, staff members and community have made a lasting impact on public ...

Dean Martin Legacy Gets A Modern Mic Check At Sycamore Center

STEUBENVILLE — An idea to recreate the old amateur-hour format that pushed a young Dino Crocetti toward becoming one of the greatest entertainers of all time brought young talent to the stage Saturday. Crocetti’s win in that competition, held at the old Capitol Theater that once stood on ...

Weirton Museum Presents History Lesson For West Virginia Day

WEIRTON — Visitors to the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center Saturday were treated to a lesson about life in the early American frontier. As part of local observances of West Virginia Day — commemorating West Virginia’s admission as a state on June 20, 1863 — Frontier Dan ...

Digging Into Ohio’s Forgotten Past

FLUSHING — As the Underground Railroad Museum prepares to move from Flushing to its soon-to-be home, the Black Horse Inn in Morristown, museum Director Kristina Estle and board member Anthony Atkins have been planting the seeds of a new exhibit. Behind the scenes, the duo recently completed ...

Centre Market House Roof Replacement Job Underway

Photo by Shelley Hanson Visitors to the Centre Market area in Wheeling on Friday may have noticed scaffolding erected along one side of the lower market house. The structures are there while men work to remove the old shingles off the roof of the building in preparation for a new roof. The ...