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“Dancing With The Ohio Valley Stars” 2026 Cast Announced

WHEELING – Local community leaders are set to show their rhythm as details for the 15th Annual “Dancing With The Ohio Valley Stars” have been announced. The fundraiser is sponsored annually by Augusta Levy Behavioral Services. This year’s cast – both contestants and their ...

Rosh Hashanah Begins High Holy Days For Jewish Faith

There is a duality to Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year that begins Friday, said Rabbi Joshua Lief of Wheeling's Temple Shalom. "Rosh Hashanah itself is about holding two contrary ideas in our mind at the same time," he said. "We look both backward and ahead. We celebrate and repent. We ...

End of an Era as Trick Horse Blitz Retires at Belmont County Fair

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Fair Rodeo saw the end of an era Thursday night. Union Local High School sophomore Eme Martin spent the evening retiring her longtime horse, Blitz, during the fair’s rodeo. Blitz is a 28-year-old trick-riding horse owned by Martin’s mentor, Union ...

Locals Remember Sept. 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks

WHEELING — Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks via airliners on New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — and many Ohio Valley residents are likely remembering what they were doing at that moment and how it impacted them then and still today. Bridgeport resident Larry Barnes, commander of American Legion Post 159, said on 9/11 he was working for a company, Shawn, Stone & Webster, that did maintenance on nuclear power plants on the East Coast. He was working at a plant just 30 ...

Bids Open for New Belmont County Animal Shelter

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Bids have opened for the new Belmont County Animal Shelter. On Wednesday, the Belmont County Commissioners passed a motion to advertise for bids for the new facility. “Today really is, in a way, a landmark day for us and a happy day for us because we're going to go out ...