Ohio's Jobless Rate Dropped During April
Ohio’s job market appears to be resilient in the face of higher gasoline prices, a conflict in Iran and other potentially disruptive events across the world. Ohio's unemployment rate dropped in April to 3.9%, a 0.2 percentage point fall from March’s 4.1 %, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The number of nonagricultural jobs increased by 7.800, going from 5.679 million in March to 5.687 in April. There were gains in manufacturing jobs and construction, offsetting drops in mining and logging, according to the state’s latest numbers. The private service ...
Wellness Weekend Returns To Challenge And Entertain
Shortly after the sun peaks over the horizon on Saturday morning (if it's not hidden by rainclouds) hundreds of competitors and even more spectators will be ready to kick off the summer season in downtown Wheeling with their participation in the annual Ogden Newspapers Wellness Weekend ...
Up, Up and Away — On Take Two
WHEELING — If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That’s the lesson Wheeling Country Day School students learned during their annual weather balloon launch Friday in the grassy field in front of their building. The first attempt to launch the giant white balloon failed ...
