PARKERSBURG — Fifty years have passed since the sensational and notorious murder of Jima Ann Dotson in Wood County. Dotson, 18, who graduated from Williamstown High School several months before, on Sept. 25, 1972, was driving to class at Parkersburg Community College, now West Virginia ...
Marietta College officially inaugurated Dr. Kathleen Poorman Dougherty as its 21st president Friday afternoon, marking a new era of leadership for the 190-year-old institution. Held in the Dyson Baudo Recreation Center, the ceremony brought together faculty, students, alumni, dignitaries ...
CAIRO — Tucked into the rolling hills of North Bend State Park, the Silver Run Tunnel is one of the most talked-about features along the 72-mile North Bend Rail Trail — not only for its engineering and scenery, but for a legend that refuses to fade. The North Bend Rail Trail, part of ...
PARKERSBURG — The music of Linda Ronstadt will be featured Saturday night at a concert in the Smoot Theatre on Fifth Street in downtown Parkersburg. “The Linda Ronstadt Experience,” performed by Tristan McIntosh, takes the stage at 7 p.m., the new starting time at the Smoot Theatre. ...
“Here the Pioneers Landed,” an exhibit commemorating the 1938 Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Founding of the Northwest Territory, is open now through the end of 2025 at Campus Martius Museum in Marietta. As the 150th anniversary of the expansion of the United States by the enactment ...
The FFA organization of the Washington County Career Center elected 2025-26 chapter officers recently. Members participating in the FFA organization are students from the Landscape Construction & Turf Management program. The organization expands opportunities for classroom instruction ...