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Eastern Panhandle woman among many remembered at 9/11 Pentagon Memorial

ARLINGTON, Va. — Out of the 184 lives lost on 9/11, when American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked by five members of the terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, and crashed into the Pentagon, at least one was an Eastern Panhandle resident. Shepherdstown resident Shelley Marshall was working in her office, on the southwest side of the Pentagon, when the Boeing 757-200 aircraft, flying from Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport, came crashing out of the sky. The day was to be her next-to-last as a budget analyst in the comptroller's office of the Defense ...

Two Fort Frye class of '26 graduates become United States Marines

Two local students, Wyatt Duskey and Aiden Offenberger, graduated from United States Marine Corps recruit training at Parris Island, S.C., on Aug. 21. Duskey and Offenberger graduated from Fort Frye High School as members of the Class of 2026. Just two days after their graduation on ...

Parkersburg Police chief recalls Sept. 11 as a high school senior

PARKERSBURG – Matthew Board knew he was going into law enforcement long before Sept. 11, 2001, but being the son of a police officer and a federal government employee informed how he experienced that day. “I had just finished, actually, my civics class,” recalled Board, who was ...

How do today's students learn about 9/11?

MARTINSBURG - Twenty-five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, students in West Virginia are still required to study the events and what followed, as more and more of them have no personal memory of that day. West Virginia's social studies standards specifically mention the 2001 attacks in the ...