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How To Keep Your Heating Costs Down

The temperatures around the Ohio Valley are starting to slide from crisp to downright chilly as the months creep from fall to winter. Households have started turning on their furnaces and many of us are doing so with our heart rates rising. We know a hotter furnace will lead to a skinnier wallet due to escalating heating costs. The United States Energy Information Administration says heating costs are on the rise. Residential propane is costing 21 cents a gallon more year over year. Residential heating oil is at $2.59 more a gallon year over year. We can’t freeze ourselves solid, ...

Now Is The Time To Get Out And Vote, West Virginia

If you’re a West Virginia voter, the time to head to the ballot box is actually now. Early voting began in the state today and will run weekdays and Saturdays through Oct. 31. In Ohio County, the public may cast ballots from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day in the municipal courtroom of the first floor of the City-County Building, 1500 Chapline St., Wheeling. In Marshall County, the hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on weekdays, and voting takes place in the basement at the courthouse. And, according to Ohio County Supervisor of Elections Erin Allietta, now is a great time to ...

School Book Bans Are Silly

School book ban trends come and go, but there are always groups of people who want to keep their children from having access to reading material that might expose them to new ideas or, worse, ask questions. The problem is particularly bad in Ohio, which ranks third among the states in PEN America’s study of school book bans for the 2025-26 school year. The free-expression advocacy group counted 117 instances of school book bans in the Buckeye State during that period. Only Texas and Florida were worse. Across the country, 11,982 books — 7,370 unique titles — were banned in public ...

Washington Ave. Bridge Is Thankfully Back Open

Want to know how much everyone in Wheeling missed the Washington Ave. Bridge? The city put on a party on the bridge and hundreds of people showed up. Throngs enjoyed live music, inflatables and face painting for the kids and food truck lining brand spanking new span, which replaced the deteriorating structure that could no longer hold ambulances or school buses. But both are ready to roll across that bridge now. There’s the popular saying that you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Wheeling went without the Washington Ave. Bridge for 10 months, and drivers felt the brunt. ...

Wheeling Park High School An Example Of Vision And Initiative

Fifty years ago, Ohio County high school students stepped into the next era of education when they first walked through the halls of the new Wheeling Park High School — and the school, its staff and its students have kept marching forward ever since. When the school opened in 1976, it was a marvel. Three levels of classrooms across nearly 273,000 square feet of space brought Warwood, Triadelphia and Wheeling high schools together to offer new facilities, new classes and new opportunities for thousands of students. It would have been easy for the school district to dust off its ...

Schools Need Our Help With Attendance

The assembly at Wheeling Park High School on Wednesday wasn’t just a celebration of the “Keep the Ball Rolling” initiative, which gives every public school in West Virginia $1,500 to provide students with essential items like food, clothing, shoes, coats and hygiene products to help improve school attendance. Now, that was a reason to celebrate. Auto dealership owner Shawn Ball, Marshall University President Brad Smith and his Wing 2 Wing Foundation, and West Virginia Treasurer Larry Pack and the Pack Family Foundation are stepping up to help students throughout the Mountain State ...