Williamstown celebrated the spirit of the holidays and gave back with its first Light Up The Town socially-distanced celebration on Thursday. Santa, his elves and even the Grinch rode around town in an escort led by the fire and police departments to wave to residents and encourage joy amidst ...
Approximately 560 Washington County children will have presents under the Christmas tree as a result of this year’s Salvation Army Angel Tree program in Marietta. Gifts were distributed drive-thru style at the rear of the fair board office at the Washington County Fairgrounds on ...
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccine shots in Parkersburg were given out at WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center on Tuesday. Issued out at 6 a.m., the first two to receive the shots were the hospital’s Emergency Department Director Brian Richardson and David Gnegy, President of ...
The Washington County Board of Health met for its final regular business meeting of 2020 Monday to close out the year’s accounts and discuss constraints of funding for coronavirus contact tracing. The board, minus the absent president, also unanimously voted to discontinue the $20,000-per-year contract for financial software in favor of utilizing a past software in 2021 while searching for a more streamlined option throughout next year. Board Member Jeff Jones asked for more of an update on the status of coronavirus cases, too, during the meeting noting consistent questions from ...
After classes conclude this week, Marietta City Schools students will stay home the first two weeks of instruction in 2021. Superintendent Will Hampton asked the district’s board of education on Monday to approve the option to remain fully remote for all students following the winter ...
WATERFORD — The Wolf Creek Local Board of Education was apprised of results from a recent teacher survey during Monday evening’s meeting. Sara Beardsley and Sharon Baumgard, co-presidents of the Wolf Creek Local Education Association, said 45 of the 53 members of the organization responded to the survey, which asked questions about COVID-19 and virtual learning. The survey showed: ¯ 77 percent of members were satisfied with the communication from building leadership; ¯ 65.9 percent were either quite or somewhat concerned about students’ social-emotional well-being right ...
