The Wheeling Ancient Order of Hibernians Division No. 1 awarded four $1,000 scholarships in May to area students in recognition of academics, extracurricular involvement, Catholic faith and essays on Irish ancestry. Recipients, pictured from left, were Wheeling Central's Luke Zoeckler, ...
The Village of Bethlehem has a new stairway connecting its community shelter and the rest of its Community Park, just in time to be ready for an 80th birthday celebration that will be bigger than usual. Village officials and representatives from Huffner Contracting, which completed the ...
WHEELING — Ohio County commissioners say the county must cut expenditures as tax revenues decline, and they want to make reductions before the next fiscal year begins July 1. Commissioners have presented a draft of a proposed employee handbook that would update county policies with the goal ...
MARTINSBURG — Federal, state and local law enforcement officials gathered Tuesday in Martinsburg to announce major drug trafficking indictments stemming from a multi-agency investigation known as Operation Turf War while also marking the launch of a new nationwide anti-drug initiative led by ...
WHEELING — Wheeling Mayor Denny Magruder on Tuesday announced the creation of a new task force to address the ongoing problem of homelessness in the city, taking a new approach that balances compassion with accountability. Those being appointed to the task force will represent several ...
A pair of recent high school graduates from the Northern Panhandle, one from Brooke High School and another from Wheeling Park High School, were announced Tuesday as National Merit Scholarship winners financed by U.S. colleges and universities. Brooke High graduate Isaac Lanigan and Wheeling Park High graduate Nathan Tyska both received the National Merit West Virginia University Foundation Inc. Scholarship. Lanigan is looking at a probable career in aerospace engineering, while Tyska is looking at a probable career in urban/city planning. More than 2,500 winners of National Merit ...
