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Trey Zambito named Brooke High School principal

WELLSBURG — Earlier this month, Trey Zambito was named interim head principal at Brooke High School. On Monday night, members of the Brooke County Board of Education voted to remove the interim from his title. In a 4-0 vote, board members approved Superintendent Jeffrey Crook's ...

Fleming has impact on young people

STEUBENVILLE — Chevy McGee has plans — big plans, the kind that involve graduating from high school, going to college, playing football and pursuing a degree. Those are lofty ambitions for a kid who, in his middle school years, didn't think it was in the cards for him. "I was doing some bad things in middle school," he said. "I wasn't paying attention, I was getting bad grades. I made some mistakes in my life, mistakes I regret still to this day, but I got past it … I see where I am now." Back then he would go to the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center in his free time ...

Kamin Science Center kicks off 35th Anniversary with an addition

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh's most visited museum — the Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Science Center — is marking its 35th anniversary with an addition to one of its most beloved experiences. The Miniature Railroad and Village has reopened with an exact replica of the Andrew Bayne Memorial ...

Wintersville woman killed in wrong-way crash on Route 22 in Pa.

A WIntersville woman died Sunday night in a wrong-way crash on Route 22 in Hanover Township. State police said Dawn R. D’Andrea was driving west in the eastbound lanes of the highway near the Burgettstown exit shortly after 10:30 p.m. when she crashed head-on into another car. D’Andrea, ...

New Cumberland welcomes fall with annual River Fest

NEW CUMBERLAND – The harvest season was on full display in New Cumberland over the weekend, as the community gathered for the annual Fall River Festival. “It’s a great day to walk along River Avenue,” noted Mayor Will White in his welcome to the crowd, helping to kick off the ...

Local historian chronicles memories of Beatty Park

STEUBENVILLE — Flora L. VerStraten-Merrin is a local historian and was a driving force behind the formation of the Friends of Beatty Park. In the final stages of writing a book about the park, she says it has brought her to the realization that park was and still is a connective historic ...