BELLAIRE — Belmont Community Hospital, which has served the area for 105 years, will be closed permanently as of April 5. The 99-bed acute care hospital was acquired by Wheeling Hospital in 1996. Belmont Community Hospital employs 93 people and Wheeling Hospital will offer positions to those ...
MARIETTA — Glenwood Community, a United Church Homes community, has been recognized by Holleran, the nation’s leading research firm specializing in senior living and community engagement. Glenwood was one of two communities nationwide to receive the Choice Community Award for both their ...
PARKERSBURG — A Parkersburg agent has been selected as a chairman of a committee of the Independent Insurance Agents of West Virginia. John Fanta of the Waters Insurance Agency has been named chairman of the Young Agent Committee. The association has announced its slate of officers and ...
MARIETTA — Marathon Petroleum Corp. turned to a team of Marietta College students to provide a fresh perspective on attracting new talent to the Findlay, Ohio-based company. The company’s goal is to get noticed by students in a variety of business fields such as marketing, accounting and ...
GLENVILLE — A Glenville State College alumna won big on a recent episode of “Wheel of Fortune.” Amy Perkins, a special education teacher at Flatwoods Elementary School, graduated from Glenville State in 2005 with a degree in elementary education. “It was such an amazing experience,” ...
PARKERSBURG — Students at Jefferson Elementary Center received a hands-on science lesson last week courtesy of Chemours. The Chemours Fun with Science Program visited the school Feb. 8, presenting four science demonstrations which focused on chemical reactions, polymers, cryogenics and ...
PARKERSBURG — A planned electrical outage Monday to allow for the repair of two distribution lines and other hardware will affect approximately 200 MonPower customers in the downtown Parkersburg area. Customers in the vicinity of Third, Fourth, Fifth, Avery and Market streets and Phillips ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Board of Education has confirmed a case of Hepatitis A in an individual who is routinely on the campus of Parkersburg South High School. According to a press release by Will Hosaflook, Wood County Schools superintendent, school officials were notified late Friday ...
CHARLESTON — With wide bipartisan support, a bill that will help the state’s new medical marijuana program get off the ground is on its way to the West Virginia Senate. The House of Delegates Friday passed House Bill 2538, providing banking services for medical cannabis, with 89 members ...
CHARLESTON — The commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles was on the hot seat Friday over why her office has dragged its feet in submitting required reports on its implementation of automatic voter registration. The House Government Organization Committee heard from ...
PARKERSBURG — A Parkersburg man has been charged with child neglect with injury, the sheriff of Wood County said on Friday. The detective bureau of the sheriff’s department has been investigating an incident involving the neglect of a 2-year-old child that occurred on Feb. 9, Sheriff Steve ...
WILLIAMSTOWN — Jenna Johnson, 15, of Williamstown is bringing sunshine to cancer patients in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Johnson’s inspiration for helping others is her grandmother, Shirley Johnson, who passed away on Nov. 26, 2016, after battling cancer. Shirley was 65 and lived in Vienna when ...
MARIETTA — Just a few days before Christmas, several local state troopers shared the gift of compassion, providing medical aid to a suspect who had just tried to run them off the road, and potentially saving his life. On Thursday, those troopers were recognized for their actions. Lt. Chris ...
MARIETTA — A two-vehicle traffic crash Wednesday evening resulted in the death of a Beverly man. Dale G. Mincks, 53, of 211 Sixth St., Beverly was traveling southbound on Ohio 60 in his 2000 Buick Century when he crossed the center line near mile marker 11 at approximately 5:38 p.m., ...
PARKERSBURG — WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center is asking area high school students to help decorate its hallway with art. The hospital announced Friday it was seeking submissions from Mid-Ohio Valley students in grades 9-12. If selected, the artwork will be professionally framed and ...
PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg Police Chief Joe Martin was recently announced as a member of the executive board for the Appalachia High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. “I was humbled to be selected,” said Martin, adding he looks forward to the opportunity to “trade and share ideas, ...
BELPRE — The Belpre City Schools Board of Education will meet in regular session 5 p.m. Monday in the Stone Administration Building/Early Learning Center. The meeting is open to the public. Time for public comment will be included in the meeting.
VIENNA — With the Vienna city budget renewal approaching, a major topic of discussion has been city insurance, which covers 81 employees. Kim Williams, who has spoken during many of the public forums in the past month, spoke again at Thursday’s Vienna City Council meeting. She expressed ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will declare a national emergency to fulfill his pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump said he will use executive powers to bypass Congress, which approved far less money for his proposed wall than he ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a shrunk-down education reform package Thursday, sending the bill back to the Senate and a likely conference committee to iron out differences. The House passed Senate Bill 451, the education omnibus bill, 71-29 during its Thursday ...