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Sycamore Youth Center to offer free summer dance camps STEUBENVILLE — The Sycamore Youth Center is inviting area youth to take part in upcoming summer dance camps, with free ballet and jazz sessions led by returning instructor Diana Tygett. The camps are part of the center’s annual summer programming aimed at providing skill-building opportunities for local children and teens. Tygett, who previously taught at Sycamore, returns this summer to lead ballet and jazz instruction. She began dancing at age 5 in New York and has experience in ballet, jazz, tap and modern dance, along ...

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Planning Commission meeting canceled WEIRTON — This month's regular meeting of the Weirton Planning Commission, which had been set for Wednesday, has been canceled because of a lack of agenda items. Christian Mothers Card Party set WEIRTON — St. Joseph Christian Mothers has scheduled its card party for May 3 at St. Joseph the Worker Grade School's gymnasium, with doors to open at 1 p.m. The event will begin at 2 p.m., with tickets at $10 each. To purchase tickets, call Barbara Raynolds at (304) 723-9772. No tickets will be sold at the door. Tickets will be mailed upon receipt ...

Wheeling Symphony to Perform Live to Original ‘Star Wars’ Film

WHEELING – Members of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra are channeling The Force this week in preparation for a live performance of “Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert,” featuring a screening of the 1977 science fiction classic. The WSO will perform the motion picture’s Oscar-winning ...

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Weirton Traffic Commission to meet This month's meeting of the Weirton Traffic Commission will be on Wednesday, April 15, in Council Chambers of the City building. If court is still in session, the meeting will commence immediately afterwards. Franciscan U. hosting online lecture on brotherhood and masculinity Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Institute for the Study of Man and Woman will host a public lecture by noted author and cultural commentator Dr. Anthony Esolen titled “The Forgotten Icon: Brotherhood” on Wednesday, April 16, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pope St. Paul VI ...

Runner With Parkinson’s 100-Marathon Journey Takes Him Through Ohio Valley

Larry Grogin refuses to allow Parkinson’s disease to have the last word in his life. That’s why he has taken on a cross-country trek – much of it on foot – to not only raise awareness for neurological diseases and funds to fight them, but hope for those who live with such diseases ...

OhioRISE staff wear blue for Child Abuse Prevention Month

STEUBENVILLE — Supervisors and directors with Jefferson County Educational Service Center OhioRISE wore blue April 8 in recognition of Child Abuse Prevention Month and in support of efforts to protect children across Ohio communities. Jefferson County Educational Service Center (JCESC) ...