PARKERSBURG — Hino Motors has slated a grand opening event for its new facility on Aug. 21, but production there is already well underway. “We’ve been building trucks since basically the first week in May,” said Steve Stalnaker, senior vice president and manager of the facility. State ...

HARRISVILLE —Tucked into a side street in Harrisville is a portal in which visitors can transport themselves to a simpler time. A time when everything a person needed was located within the confines of their local five and dime. Since 1908, Berdine’s Five and Dime has been providing ...

PARKERSBURG — H. Dill Battle III has been appointed to the United Bankshares Inc. West Virginia Board. An attorney, Battle is a member at Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC, and chair of the firm’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group. United Bankshares is a $19.6 billion regional ...

GRANTSVILLE — Calhoun County led in business growth by percentage in May with four new businesses, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner said on Thursday. An increase of four in Calhoun County is 2.50 percent growth, according to the secretary of state. The Business & Licensing ...

PARKERSBURG — A social media campaign to encourage tourism in West Virginia and coinciding with the state’s 156th birthday will kick off Friday. From Friday through June 20, West Virginia Day, the seven-day challenge is aimed at inspiring travel to West Virginia through daily themes and ...

BELPRE — Students at Belpre Elementary summer school sampled and purchased locally grown fruits and vegetables Wednesday as part of the pop-up River City Farmers Market. Marcus McCartney, extension educator for the Ohio State University Washington County Extension Service, said the ...

COLUMBUS — The state of Ohio has reached a settlement of $879,000 with the now-closed Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow. Attorney General Dave Yost Wednesday said the settlement was by mutual resolution with Educational Service Center of Lake Erie West over disputed overpayments to the ...

MARIETTA — The biggest space in the Lafayette Square shopping center is changing tenants, with a grand opening scheduled for June 27. The Peebles Department Store will close in mid-June for 10 days to be replaced by a Gordman’s outlet. Both store brands are owned by Stage, which also ...

DEVOLA — In two weeks, the pair has taken on 14 orders, dancing around the kitchen testing recipes and designs in Devola as their sons wrap up spring baseball season together. “Both of us were hobby bakers,” said Katie Warden, 40, as she pulled up a recipe in her home Monday to try for ...

MARIETTA — The Marietta Harbor will see a few changes this season, with bike and pontoon rentals going away but upgrades on the building planned. With opening weekend and a brief stint on generator power under his belt, the Marietta harbormaster got to work with minor dock repairs Wednesday ...

CHARLESTON — EQT Corp., a hydrocarbon and pipeline transport company headquartered in Pittsburgh, was ordered to pay $190,000 in damages by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia on Wednesday. According to the opinion written by Justice John Hutchinson, EQT violated the original ...

BELPRE — A Belpre winery is among the participants in an Ohio Wine Producers Association program celebrating June as Ohio Wine Month. Ohio Uncorked will allow participants to travel to the 26 member wineries where they can enjoy a glass of wine or take home a bottle, then collect a signed ...

BECKLEY — SLS Land & Energy Development, a surveying and engineering firm with offices in Charleston and Glenville, has acquired ESI Services Inc., an engineering and surveying consulting firm in Beckley. “It’s a perfect fit, because ESI offers similar services, and its client ...

PARKERSBURG — Earlier this month U.S. News and World Reports published an article ranking the states based on multiple factors to include health care, infrastructure and education to name a few. The publication found West Virginia as the 47th best state in the union and ranked it dead ...

MARIETTA — Marietta Main Street, the nonprofit organization advancing and promoting downtown, is looking for a new executive director. Sam Tuten, who was director for less than a year, has resigned and will be replaced on an interim basis by former executive director Cristie Thomas, who ...

HUNTINGTON — The Robert C. Byrd Institute and Advantage Valley with the West Virginia Development Office will hold an expo to link small businesses with major West Virginia chemical and polymer manufacturers from 1-5 p.m. June 13 at Valley Park Conference Center in Hurricane. The West ...

MARIETTA — The Frontier Shopping Center in Marietta is up for sale, although it’s continuing to welcome new businesses to the strip mall in the meantime. In April the shopping center was listed for sale for $10,507,000, for the commercial parcels and buildings, with the listing boasting ...

HANNIBAL, Ohio—Before it closed in 2013, the Ormet Aluminum Corp. in Monroe County used the same amount of power in a day that the city of Pittsburgh did. “And that was 540 megawatts of power we were using,” explained Robert Cox, general manager of the Long Ridge Energy Terminal, on ...

RAVENSWOOD — OVP HEALTH, formerly Ohio Valley Physicians, which operates a facility in Ravenswood, has again received three-year accreditations from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities for two of its programs for care and treatment of people suffering from opioid ...

MORGANTOWN — As thousands of jobs remain unfilled across West Virginia, WV Forward is posting a jobs portal that serves as a front door to statewide job platforms and listings, according to a press release. At a time when employers and government officials express the need to better ...