Community

I.C. Chiefs event more than a fundraiser

WINTERSVILLE — A local youth sports organization is planning an event designed to bring the community together and provide important lessons to its participants. Chiefs, Cleats and Eats will be held beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, and Tiffany Wallace said organizers want it to be more than a fundraising effort for the Indian Creek Chiefs Youth Football and Cheer Program. "Our goal is much bigger than football," Wallace, president of the organization, said. "We want to bring our community together, support local families and businesses and teach our young athletes that being a Chief ...

JVS names homecoming court

History in the Hills: The river revisited

This month marks seven years of my History in the Hills articles, and I can't believe it has been that long. I have covered a lot of history during that time and have completed about 182 articles detailing our past. I thought it might be fun to look back at one that got me started on this journey in 2019, and that piece was all about the Ohio River. Whether we realize it or not, our history is tied to the Ohio River. Flowing through our community over millennia, the river cut the Ohio Valley deeply giving us the landscape we are all familiar with. Looking back to the earliest history ...

Scholarship winner to perform

WHEELING — The Thursday Music Club will meet at 11 a.m. Oct. 1, at the Char House on the Boulevard in Bethlehem. Entertainment for the meeting will be provided by Mason Stoll, winner of the Gretchen McKee Scholarship at West Liberty University. Stoll is a senior music education major at West Liberty University. Since 2023, he has studied voice with Linda Cowan. In 2025, he was a semifinalist in the upper-division musical theater category for the Tri-State Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. The following year, he traveled to receive second place in the ...

Police

STEUBENVILLE POLICE On a roll: An Adams Street resident was held without bond Thursday after he allegedly threatened that “before he dies he was going to kill her” Police report Daljeet Singh, 32, 406 Adams St., Apt. 1, also allegedly threatened to rape a city patrolman and allegedly assaulted a male correctional officer while he was being booked into the county jail. The correction officer told them he’d been hit in the face and…had a visible cut” on his face, police said. Singh was charged with assault and two counts of aggravated menacing. Double dipping: Occupants of the ...

Taking precautions

Craig Howell The Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce welcomed representatives of the local business community, Wednesday morning, to its Morning Momentum educational seminar, focusing on artificial intelligence and digital literacy. The seminar was presented by Chamber President Stephanie ...