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Chicken barbecue dinner The Graysville and Community Volunteer Fire Department, 38851 State Route 26, Graysville, will hold a chicken barbecue dinner at 4:30 p.m. Saturday. The menu includes chicken, baked potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, rolls, desserts and drinks. Public steak fry Beverly American Legion Post 389 will hold a public steak fry from 5-8 p.m. Saturday at the Post Home, 114 Fifth St., Beverly. A meal is $15 and includes steak, a baked potato, salad bar and a roll. Sewer Work on Franklin Street The Water Reclamation Department will be performing work on the 400 ...

Volunteers help out during the United Way’s annual Day of Action

PARKERSBURG – Volunteers were out in force Thursday helping many area non-profits with needed service projects during the United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley’s 10th annual Day of Action. Around 150 volunteers went out to 16 sites around the area to help with various service ...

EVE Inc. to reopen nonresidential services July 6 after organizational reset

MARIETTA — EVE Inc. plans to begin reopening services July 6 after several weeks of restructuring, Executive Director Trina Rataiczak said in a release. Nonresidential services will resume July 6, including advocacy, support, referrals, crisis intervention and access through EVE’s 24-hour crisis hotline, Rataiczak said. The organization plans to fully reopen all services, including emergency residential shelter services, on Aug. 3. Survivors seeking emergency residential services between July 6 and Aug. 3 will be assisted and placed in a safe location until EVE has reopened, ...

Ham radio’s biggest weekend includes local Field Day sites

PARKERSBURG – Amateur radio operators will be on the air for 24 consecutive hours from 2 p.m. Saturday to 2 p.m. Sunday for the American Radio Relay League’s Field Day, including multiple sites in the Mid-Ohio Valley. “Always on the fourth weekend of June, P.A.R.K (Parkersburg Amateur ...