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Jefferson Soil and Water District pursues recreation grants

STEUBENVILLE — Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District is hoping to tap into grant funds to expand and enhance existing recreation opportunities in the county. Projects Director Aaron Dodds told commissioners Thursday he’ll be submitting applications for the Abandoned Mine Land ...

9/11 remembrance ceremony a calling for Rabbi Joshua Lief

The first remembrance ceremony for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that Rabbi Joshua Lief of Wheeling's Temple Shalom was part of came one year after those attacks in 2002. He was still in the seminary as a student rabbi, with a small congregation in Lafayette, Louisiana, as his student ...

Therapist reflects on 25 years since 9/11

WHEELING — It has been 25 years since Sheli Bernstein-Goff, a Wheeling-based clinical therapist who specializes in critical stress management, helped first responders in New York City just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Bernstein-Goff was a volunteer with Green Cross, a ...

Harrison recalls military service before and after 9/11

The eight years Jeremy Harrison served in the Army Reserves and on active duty in the Middle East were split by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. A resident of Glen Dale, Harrison enlisted in 1997, not too long after he had graduated from Wheeling Park High School, and was honorably discharged in ...

Flight 93 Memorial visitors revisit moments from 9/11

September 11, 2001 is a day that many Americans will never forget. Thoughts of where people were, what they saw and how they felt that day remain in their minds 25 years later. At the Flight 93 National Memorial Park, visitors carry those memories with them as they honor the 40 passengers and ...

Second Saturday canceled

WEIRTON – The planned Second Saturday event scheduled for this weekend has been canceled in anticipation of weather. Officials with the Top of West Virginia Convention and Visitors Bureau are working with the bands and vendors to see if it can be rescheduled for a later date.