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Transparency in Marshall County

Marshall County Schools Superintendent Shelby Haines’ report to the county’s Board of Education on Tuesday was an encouraging sign for how the school district will handle one of the biggest black eyes it has suffered in years. Haines briefed the board and the audience about the steps the administration is taking following the arrests of former McNinch Primary teacher Kiersten Moses, former McNinch Principal Jane Duffy and district Director of Special Programs Erin Cuffaro in connection with the alleged strangling of a nonverbal autistic McNinch student. (To recap, Moses is ...

Mental Health Care Important

With increasing talk about a growing sense of anxiety and fragile mental wellbeing, it makes sense that some Ohioans are seeking needed mental health care. For most of them, finding timely care is a challenge. Health Policy Institute of Ohio says 75 of the state’s 88 counties are mental health shortage areas, according to a report by the Ohio Capital Journal. Only 11 facilities in Ohio offer youth inpatient services, the study found. The only counties that are not mental health shortage areas are Hancock, Marion, Delaware, Montgomery, Butler, Clermont, Lorain, Ashland, Lake, ...

W.Va.’s Outlook Must Get Better

As West Virginia lawmakers kick off this year’s legislative session with talk of kitchen table issues and “Jobs First — Opportunity Everywhere,” a recent report by WalletHub suggests they will have to do a lot of work to turn that focus into success. If the aim is to turn the Mountain State into the kind of place where people want to stay to raise their families, they’ll be working from (as usual) nearly the back of the pack. In WalletHub’s “Best and Worst States to Raise a Family 2026,” West Virginia ranked nearly last. Only New Mexico prevented it from being the ...

Local Cities Helping Keep Renters Safe

The cities of Wheeling and Moundsville recently took it upon themselves to ensure the health and safety of renters within their limits when roach problems reared their ugly heads in both places. Windsor Manor Apartments saw a condemnation notice on its front door Friday morning, after an inspection by Wheeling Building and Code Enforcement the day before unearthed what it called a “major roach infestation.” No one has been forced from the apartments, Wheeling Building and Planning Director Brenda J. Delbert said, but the property owners have until Feb. 9 to correct the problem. ...

Don’t Ignore the Flu

It is the season during which many of us simply accept that we will get the common cold or come down with the flu, but failure to do all we can to prevent such viruses can be dangerous. In some cases, it can be deadly. Recently, Ohio reported its first pediatric flu death of the season — a teenager under 18 in Greene County, according to state health officials. In fact, each year there are between one and seven pediatric flu deaths in the state. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nationwide 6,300 to 52,000 people died from the flu annually between 2010 ...

Protect Yourself This Tax Season

As “political season” ramps up, election filings begin, tax preparation is underway, and any number of 2026 tasks come to mind at the start of the year, state officials are warning residents to beware of phishing campaigns and other cyber crimes in which deceptive website addresses and other techniques lead people to believe they are dealing with a state agency when they are not. Generally, the goal is to gain login credentials or other personal information — maybe even money. Criminals do so by creating web addresses that LOOK as though they came from state agencies, or send ...