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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.

Council moves to expand Weirton parking restrictions

WEIRTON — Weirton Council took the first step Tuesday in amending a section of the city's parking code governing the parking of vehicles on unimproved areas of an individual's property. Council approved, through a 6-0 vote, the first reading of an ordinance amending Articles 351 and 541 of ...

Area residents challenged to remember the unity following attacks

FOLLANSBEE – While taking time to remember the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, two area officials also encouraged residents to recapture the sense of unity felt in the days after. During a brief ceremony held Friday night at Follansbee Park, marking the 25th anniversary of ...