Twenty-five years ago today, what many consider to be the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history took place as a series of four coordinated strikes by al-Qaida, using commercial airliners, resulted in the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, damage to the ...
WHEELING — Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks via airliners on New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — and many Ohio Valley residents are likely remembering what they were doing at that moment and how it impacted them then and still today. Bridgeport resident Larry Barnes, commander of American Legion Post 159, said on 9/11 he was working for a company, Shawn, Stone & Webster, that did maintenance on nuclear power plants on the East Coast. He was working at a plant just 30 ...
WEIRTON — With the city's utilities director set to retire next month, the Weirton Sanitary Department took action Thursday to set a continuation of managerial oversight, naming Charles Smith as its interim director. Smith currently holds the position of assistant director for the sanitary ...
WEIRTON — The Weirton Area Water Board will begin advertising in the coming days as part of its search for a new water director. The Water Board, during its meeting Thursday, discussed several aspects of the search, being organized as a result of the upcoming retirement of Utilities ...
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 ...
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 ...
