WHEELING – Ohio County Schools will be paying nearly $650,000 to resurface tennis courts owned by the Wheeling Park Commission, and in return the Wheeling Park High School tennis team will gain better facilities in which to play. The school district and the park commission on Monday night ...
BELLAIRE — Five people were arrested Thursday following a drug raid at a Bellaire apartment where detectives seized suspected fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine, according to the Belmont County Sheriff’s Office. The search warrant was executed at an apartment on Hamilton Street in ...
FOLLANSBEE – New garbage collection regulations are set to go into effect in Follansbee at the end of the month, and city officials are reminding residents and businesses to make sure they are prepared. City Manager Chris Manack-Stover said letters have been sent to the community explaining the pending changes, which include an increase in rates approved by Follansbee Council earlier this year. “People have been notified,” she said during the Aug. 3 Council-as-a-whole meeting. Copies of the information also will be available at the Follansbee City Building and the city’s ...
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 ...
WHEELING – Brenda Miller has served more than 27 years as circuit court clerk in Ohio County, but now she finds family needs to be a higher priority. Miller, 65, recently announced she would step down from her long-time elected office effective Aug. 28. Her six-year term extends through the ...
WHEELING – Members of Wheeling City Council are expected to hear a first reading tonight on legislation to demolish several structures in the Downtown Historic District to clear space for a new hotel complex near the waterfront. Tonight's meeting, which is slated to begin at 5:30 p.m. in ...
