WHEELING – Wheeling Health Right hopes its upcoming Chefs’ Auction fundraiser will score a real hat-trick of culinary delights while generating the money to help keep the free healthcare clinic going for the next year. Wheeling Health Right has announced plans for its 30th annual Chefs’ ...
WHEELING – Ohio County Board of Education members met briefly early Tuesday morning to officially approve its excess levy rate for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. The rate will remain at 95.5% of the maximum rate permissible under West Virginia law. The levy annually generates about $41 million of the school district’s budget of about $85 million. Each 1%t change in the rate, whether it is increased or decreased, affects the budget by about $240,270, according to figures provided by Steven Bieniek, business manager for Ohio County Schools. Despite county property rates dropping ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – A trial date has been set in the case of a Bellaire man accused of shooting and killing another man in January. Belmont County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Berhalter on Monday set a trial date of 8:30 a.m. Aug. 18 for 23-year-old Sandton Browder in Common Pleas ...
WHEELING – Community organizers are asking the public to come get to know each other, make friends, and meet this year’s political candidates at an “End Of The World” party happening this week in Wheeling. The community improvement group "Where Do We Go From Here?" is organizing the ...
A Wheeling man who pleaded guilty to felony drug charges was sentenced to no fewer than three years and up to 45 years in prison, Ohio County Prosecutor Shawn Turak said Monday. Matthew Robert Pockl, 34, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver fentanyl, possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession with intent to deliver methamphetamine. First Judicial Circuit Court Judge Michael Olejasz sentenced Pockl. According to Turak, the Ohio County Drug Task Force began an investigation into Pockl in response to numerous complaints made to the Wheeling Police ...
FOLLANSBEE – City officials are looking for an extra boost in order to move forward on a long-planned water improvement project. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently opened bids on the project, which had been reconfigured after a round of bids held last fall came in at approximately $9.5 million. The latest round of bids, held by the Army Corps as a condition of the project, also came in slightly over. “We're about $500,000 over,” Mayor Scott McMahon explained during Follansbee Council's April 13 regular meeting. As part of the project, the city was providing $1 million, ...
