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Five area first responders recognized for role in 9/11 rescue efforts

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 ...

Locals remember Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks

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 ...

Smith named interim Weirton sanitary director

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 ...

Water director advertisement to begin next week

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 ...

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 ...