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Sara Wood-Shaw Chose Public Service To Help Others

By SHELLEY HANSON MOUNDSVILLE — City of Moundsville Mayor Sara Wood-Shaw always wanted a job that was purposeful and fulfilling and she has found just that in public service. Wood-Shaw was elected to Moundsville City Council in 2018 and took office as an at-large council member in 2019. ...

Sonja Thoms Keeps Wheeling Symphony Orchestra In Tune

By DEREK REDD WHEELING — From the age of 13, Sonja Thoms had wanted to be a professional musician in a symphony orchestra. She put herself on that path as an oboist, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in performance. Yet, during her master’s studies at Rice University, she was ...

Local Historians Carry Wheeling’s Past Into The Future

By EMMA DELK WHEELING — Two local historians who share the goal of preserving and sharing Wheeling’s past came to love history through vastly different means. Friends of Wheeling President Jeanne Finstein did not become interested in the subject until later in life when she ...

Stephanie Hockenberry Sees Women’s Roles Continuing To Grow

By JOSELYN KING WHEELING — Stephanie Hockenberry — the new growth and retention manager for Ohio County — sees women taking on even more important job roles in the future. “Women are doing great things in government and I’m proud to get to work with each of them and be a part of ...

Lisa Ingram ‘Comes Home’ To Marshall County 4-H

By EMMA DELK Staff Writer MOUNDSVILLE — As a Marshall County 4-H Agent with West Virginia University Extension, a day on the job for Lisa Ingram is never the same. One week could be spent creating programming for a high school on cyberbullying, while the next could be coordinating a ...

Helping Animals A Mission For Retired Dancer Candace Fleagane

By JENNIFER COMPSTON-STROUGH MORRISTOWN — For nearly her entire life, Candace Fleagane has known she was meant to care for animals. The moment she realized that came during her third birthday party. “Something horrible happened to my dog,” she said. “Even though I was very young, ...