Area residents soon will have an opportunity to provide input on a potential replacement for the Market Street Bridge. The Brooke-Hancock-Jefferson Metropolitan Planning Commission has scheduled a pair of public meetings. The Market Street Bridge was closed to traffic in December 2023 after ...
STEUBENVILLE — The results might have been in fun, but the process behind Tuesday's mock election at Steubenville High School was about teaching students about the importance of voting. "One of our responsibilities of citizenship is being a voter. If you are not voting, you don't have much ...
Author opens Children’s Book Week WEIRTON — West Virginia children’s author Anna Egan Smucker will open Children’s Book Week at the Mary H. Weir Public Library at 11 a.m. May 4. Smucker will read her children’s book Outside the Window about baby birds in the library’s activity room. Smucker, a Pushcart nominee, is the author of No Star Nights, her award-winning memoir about growing up in the steel town of Weirton in the 1950s. Published by Knopf, it won the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award. Other titles include A History of West Virginia, To Keep ...
NEW CUMBERLAND — Three students from Oak Glen High School recently returned from Charleston, where they were named honorary secretaries of state in recognition of their efforts to encourage the school’s seniors to register to vote. Ella Paras, Danica Holden and Maddox McKay, members of ...
ST. ALBANS – Gov. Patrick Morrisey thanked the West Virginia Legislature Tuesday for providing additional funding next fiscal year for road and bridge maintenance projects and the passage of bills to increase safety for highway workers. Morrisey held a ceremonial bill signing ceremony in ...
STEUBENVILLE — Emergency crews flooded Rosslyn Boulevard Tuesday following a reported house explosion in Steubenville that neighbors said shook nearby homes. Residents reported the blast was powerful enough to blow out windows in neighboring houses. Witnesses also reported hearing a man ...
