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Marietta City School BOE meeting The Marietta City School District Board of Education will hold its regular August Board of Education meeting at 6 p.m. on today at 111 Academy Drive. The Village of Lower Salem will hold a special meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Village Hall. For questions, call Janet Kidd at 740-525-4027. Fort Frye BOE meeting The date of the regular August board meeting of the Fort Frye Board of Education has been changed to 6 p.m. Thursday at Fort Frye High School, 420 Fifth Street, Beverly. Steak fry A steak fry will be from 5-7 p.m. Friday at the VFW ...

Nearly $157,000 in Marietta employee payments questioned

MARIETTA — Nearly $157,000 in employee vacation and holiday payments is being questioned in an active state investigation, while a former Marietta finance chairman is warning a notice sent to the city’s surety company could increase bonding costs or jeopardize future coverage. Letters from City Council leaders identified $156,881.50 in alleged overpayments. The figure does not include uncalculated amounts related to vacation proration or questions about $68,186.37 in overtime paid to one employee. During an Aug. 6 Marietta City Council meeting, former Councilman and Finance ...

Belpre school board advances new 6-12 building design

BELPRE — The Belpre City Schools Board of Education advanced plans for a new school for grades 6-12 on Thursday, authorizing the project’s design team to begin preparing construction documents. The unanimous vote approved design development submissions to the state and authorized the ...

Detroit drug ring indictments include Parkersburg, Morgantown residents

MORGANTOWN – Matthew L. Harvey didn’t parse words during his remarks Thursday. “The people are not misguided,” he said. “They are not ‘accidental’ criminals. They are predators.” Harvey, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, was speaking generally on Thursday about a conduit of one-way commerce lethally linking the Motor City of Detroit to the Mountain State of West Virginia. Specifically, though, he was at the Erickson Alumni Center of the state’s flagship university on the rainy morning to announce the takedown of an extensive drug ...

Marching to her own beat: Richmond plans to pursue law, music

BELPRE – Belpre High School senior Sara Richmond has a dream of practicing disability law and being a front ensemble director for a band. Richmond, who is a straight A student, is the daughter of Gabriel and Carrie Richmond. At Belpre High School, she is involved in the handbell choir as ...

Oliverio named to WVU Parkersburg post

PARKERSBURG - A Pleasants County woman has been named the director of teacher education at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. Paula Oliverio has had a long career with Pleasants County Schools and recently left as interventionist at Belmont Elementary School. She brings more than 40 ...