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Follansbee to receive $500,000 for Hooverson Heights treatment plant upgrades

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FOLLANSBEE — A grant announced by Gov. Patrick Morrisey will close the funding gap needed for the City of Follansbee to upgrade the Hooverson Heights Water Treatment Plant. A $500,000 grant, provided through the West Virginia Infrastructure and Jobs Development Council, was among nearly $26 million in funding for projects across West Virginia announced by Morrisey on Monday. “We were given details of that Thursday,” Follansbee Mayor Scott McMahon said during Monday's City Council meeting. “That will be the matching portion.” The city previously received approximately $1.3 ...

Baron von Steuben statue planned for Fort Steuben park

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STEUBENVILLE — The Old Fort Steuben Project has announced plans for a major addition to Fort Steuben Park with the creation and installation of a bronze statue honoring Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, the Revolutionary War hero for whom Fort Steuben and the city were named. The project ...

Property tax petition quest for Ohio ballot pushed to 2027

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Ohio voters will not get the chance to eliminate property taxes in the state when they go to the polls this November. Organizers of a petition drive to get a proposed constitutional amendment banning property taxes on the ballot this fall need more time to gather the required number of signatures and are pushing the effort instead to 2027, Brian Massie, leader of Abolish Ohio Property Tax, said recently on the organization’s website AxOHTax.com. The group’s goal was to collect 620,000 signatures of registered voters to put the issue on the ballot this November, 200,000 more than ...

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Birthdays June 8 Casey Hanlin, Wintersville June 9 Eric Stoddart, Mingo Junction Ryan Shoulders, Wintersville Larry Gareis, Weirton Police Beat STEUBENVILLE POLICE Match game: A resident said his neighbor “set some bushes on fire” Friday in the 400 block of Maxwell Avenue. He said she’d come on his property a few hours before “and accused him of causing Child Protective Services to take her child from her.” The caller had video of the woman walking to her house “after the set the fire and it appeared she was holding some type of container.” Police said the ...

Expand Energy hosts regional emergency management agencies

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WHEELING — Representatives of emergency management organizations from across the Ohio Valley visited the offices of Expand Energy June 3 as part of a collaborative event allowing area first responders to get a better understanding of the natural gas company's operations. The company also ...