NEW CUMBERLAND — Three students from Oak Glen High School recently returned from Charleston, where they were named honorary secretaries of state in recognition of their efforts to encourage the school’s seniors to register to vote. Ella Paras, Danica Holden and Maddox McKay, members of ...
Author opens Children’s Book Week WEIRTON — West Virginia children’s author Anna Egan Smucker will open Children’s Book Week at the Mary H. Weir Public Library at 11 a.m. May 4. Smucker will read her children’s book Outside the Window about baby birds in the library’s activity room. Smucker, a Pushcart nominee, is the author of No Star Nights, her award-winning memoir about growing up in the steel town of Weirton in the 1950s. Published by Knopf, it won the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award. Other titles include A History of West Virginia, To Keep ...
MORRISTOWN — After nearly eight years of planning, a retired U.S. Air Force F-16 Thunderbird jet has arrived at Union Local High School. The jet will be displayed in front of the school after it is rebuilt by a crew from Worldwide Aircraft, whose employees delivered and assembled the ...
WHEELING — If you’ve noticed your sweet tooth beginning to ache recently, it may be calling you to one of the sweetest events of the year — the 34th annual Chocolate Extravaganza. This year’s event is slated for 1-3 p.m. May 3 at Temple Shalom, 23 Bethany Pike, Wheeling. For the $20 ...
This year is the year of anniversaries. Naturally, the one we are hearing most about is our nation’s 250th anniversary, which is certainly a cause for celebration. I hope to write about that in the coming months. Here locally, it is the 40th anniversary of the founding of Historic Fort Steuben, the 40th anniversary of the Steubenville Murals in downtown and the 20th anniversary of the Summer Concert Series at the fort. We certainly have a year of celebrations ahead. For me personally, it’s a special year as well, as it’s my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. They celebrated that ...
Norfolk Southern railroad's first-quarter profit fell 27% because it didn't collect big insurance payments related to the East Palestine derailment and its planned merger with Union Pacific added to its costs. The Atlanta-based railroad said Friday that it earned $547 million, or $2.43 per ...
