PARKERSBURG – As the area gets over smoke from the recent Peoples Cartage warehouse fire, smoke has moved in from wildfires in Canada, which now impacting Mid-Ohio Valley air quality. Officials in both West Virginia and Ohio are warning people to take precautions as the effects can be seen ...
MARIETTA — A dispute over the use of city-owned land at Knox Park became heated Thursday as Marietta City Council members and citizen and former councilman Roger Kalter traded accusations involving unauthorized work, harassment and disrespect. The disagreement centers on portions of the ...
PARKERSBURG – Connor George is going the distance in running and life. George, 18, is a recent graduate of Parkersburg High School, having been on both their cross-country and track teams throughout middle school at Jackson and high school. This August, he is heading to the University of ...
The late Larry Burkett told about a preacher friend who did something that is not recommended for preachers who value their jobs – he took up the offering himself. As the preacher carried the plate around the room, he watched what people put in and, if they put in a sealed envelope, he opened the envelope and looked at the amount inside. The following Sunday, to a congregation seething with anger, the preacher said, “Many of you are angry that I looked in your offering envelopes last week. Has it ever occurred to you to consider what God thinks when he looks in there?” Brett Blair ...
BEVERLY — Fort Frye Local Schools Board of Education met for a regular monthly meeting Thursday evening with updates from board committees and to approve for the district superintendent and treasurer to begin seeking bids for the school-based health system. Superintendent Stephanie Starcher said there has been a need in the community for a school-based health system available to both students and the public. According to information provided by Starcher following Thursday evening’s meeting, the board approved for Starcher and district Treasurer Kaitlin Huck to seek bids for ...
A whistle in the dark Appalachian woods would be unsettling under ordinary circumstances. While filming a horror movie about why people should not respond to strange sounds in the forest, it was enough to make writer and director Allison Haines consider running. Haines and a local cast and ...
