WELLSBURG – Wellsburg’s week-long celebration of the Independence Day holiday got under way over the weekend, although weather was a hindrance to one of the community’s newest events. The Super Kids Race was set to…
Championship bound
Photo by Joe Lovell Wheeling's Ranius Daramola fights through Jersey tacklers inside WesBanco Arena on Saturday during the Wheeling Miners'…
Top student readers turn pages into playtime for shelter animals
NEW MANCHESTER — The Hancock County Animal Shelter recently welcomed its first group of “Rescue Readers,” as top student readers…
Council honors Steubenville’s trailblazers in resolution
Councilman Royal Mayo, right, presents a resolution celebrating the achievements of Steubenville’s African-American residents, including brothers Jerome and John Edwards,…
Marines killed at Iwo Jima are honored
WHEELING — Two different U.S. Marines from Warwood — both of whom were killed in action during World War II…
Creek BOE approves personnel changes, coaching assignments and meeting date adjustment
MINGO JUNCTION — The Indian Creek Local School District reaffirmed key administrative leadership and approved a full slate of staffing…
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Community
Reporter's Notebook: School's out for summer
You've got to give West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty credit. He keeps trying different ways to get the attention of lawmakers and Gov. Patrick Morrisey to tell them our 55 county school systems are heading toward a fiscal cliff. The question is whether the legislative and executive branches are getting the…
Brilliant Fire Department adds new ladder truck to fleet
Miami University Confers Spring Degrees MIAMI UNIVERSITY — Miami University conferred more than 4,500 degrees during…
Briefs
Fidelis Gamma celebrates birthdays
Local Sports
Reds top Pirates in back-and-forth game
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pinch-hitter Noelvi Marte hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the eighth…
Business
Schuetz welcomed to Weirton
Craig Howell Schuetz Funeral Home was officially welcomed to the Weirton business community June…
Bine joins Aim as client advocate
NEW PHILADELPHIA — The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District will celebrate the completion of its new marina…
MWCD celebrates ribbon cutting for new marina at Clendening Lake
GAHANNA — Craig Klein is retiring as president of Capital Recovery Systems Inc., the firm has…
Klein retires from Capital Recovery Systems
Editorials
A relaunch of public art in the Ohio Valley
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the encouragement to install murals throughout West Virginia as part of the state’s America 250 observances, with the Department of Tourism providing each county with $5,000 toward such projects. Hancock and Brooke counties jumped right on the program, with one piece of artwork created and
Three Theaters, One Retreat
EDITORIAL CARTOON
War and Constitutional Indifference
Local Columns
Remembering our history, strength, and people
The country roads are taking us all home this weekend as we take time to recognize the anniversary of our state's founding. Born in the midst of the American Civil War, through a method of which the legality is still debated today, West Virginia was admitted into the nation on June 20, 1863, separating…
Craig Howell: Remembering a life of public service
Julie Gomez: Checking In on the Men Who Always Show Up
Weirton zoning case establishing a precedent
Obituaries
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