PARKERSBURG — The Municipal Planning Commission on Friday tabled a request to abandon a portion of an undeveloped alleyway until more information could be gathered on the situation and impact on neighboring property owners. Parkersburg resident Brenda Sturm petitioned for the abandonment ...
PARKERSBURG — A candidate for West Virginia governor plans meetings around the state toward developing a platform. Democrat Stephen Smith was in Parkersburg on Friday, meeting with supporters and representatives of the Construction Trades Council for Parkersburg and Marietta and Chris ...
CHARLESTON — The attorney general and secretary of state of West Virginia have gotten involved in the recent Harpers Ferry election. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, as counsel for Secretary of State Mac Warner, filed a friend of the court brief with Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge ...
PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Utility Board this week approved contracts for two projects and an amendment to the study preparing for a sewer expansion in the Marrtown area. The board received only one bid for repair of a water line beneath Fourth Street and Garfield Avenue. Stonegate ...
PARKERSBURG — Volunteers came to the former Sumner School Thursday morning to pack away artifacts and pictures to be stored at the Parkersburg Municipal Building to help preserve them. According to city development director Rickie Yeager, United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley, ...
VIENNA — Grand Central Mall’s back lot will be full of cars and drivers today competing in an autocross sponsored by The Southern West Virginia Region of the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA). The first car off the starting line will be at 10 a.m. The action will continue until ...
WASHINGTON — West Virginia’s two U.S. senators voted Thursday against a resolution to nullify the Affordable Clean Energy Rule, the Trump Administration’s replacement to the Obama-era Clean Power Plan. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, ...
VIENNA — Habitat for Humanity of the Mid-Ohio Valley held its annual Destination Design charity auction at Grand Pointe Conference and Reception Center in Vienna with proceeds helping to build the next three Habitat homes in the Mid-Ohio Valley. This was the seventh year for the benefit, ...
MARIETTA — Advocates of the Marietta City Schools building project proposal — for which voters are making a decision about whether to approve $55 million in local tax levies — are emphasizing the educational and resource-allocation benefits of putting all the district’s students on a ...
MARIETTA — In the lab, the middle school students stirred a goopy mixture in plastic bowls with their hands, facial expressions from laughter to dismay playing across their faces. The instructors explained that the consistency of the mix changed as the speed at which they stirred it ...
BRIGHTON, England — On Oct. 12, over 130 people in Brighton, England, attended an event celebrating Parkersburg Pride. The evening featured the international premiere of “OUTSPOKEN,” Emily Harger’s documentary about the LGBTQ community in Parkersburg and the failure of a ...
PARKERSBURG — West Virginia University at Parkersburg will present “The Defamation Experience” 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday in the WVU Parkersburg college theater. The show, free and open to the public, receives funding from the Higher Education Resource Assessment. “The Defamation ...
GLENVILLE — Judith Ann Musgrave Meads is the 2019 recipient of the Helping Hands Award presented by the women of Marthas and Marys, an ecumenical group of Gilmer County women representing 13 churches. A celebration will be held 3 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Glenville Presbyterian Church. ...
PARKERSBURG — Thirty minutes of exercise each day help lower the chances of heart disease and stroke, medical officials say. Thursday over 200 members of the community came together to fight against cardiovascular disease at City Park in Parkersburg. Cardiovascular disease, which ...
PARKERSBURG — The adult suspect in the September killing of a Parkersburg woman pleaded guilty Thursday to an information charging him with second-degree murder. Michael Wayne Leadmon, 22, in custody without bond at the North Central Regional Jail in Doddridge County, entered the plea ...
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS — For the second time since June, the oldest son of President Donald Trump traveled to West Virginia Thursday to help raise funds for Gov. Jim Justice’s re-election campaign. Donald Trump Jr. was the special guest Thursday at a political fundraiser for Justice, ...
PARKERSBURG — Criminal charges are pending in the death of a woman following a motorcycle crash last week. Melissa Barone, 37, of Parkersburg, was a passenger on a motorcycle driven by her husband, 36-year-old Jason Barone, which was traveling south in the 900 block of Division Street ...
PARKERSBURG — Three arrests have been made in an armed robbery which took place Monday, and the Parkersburg Police Department is searching for a fourth suspect. Nicholas Procia II, 20, 1211 Williams St., Parkersburg, and Taylor Starcher, 18, 1908 Princeton St., Parkersburg, have been ...
PARKERSBURG — City police say the death of a man whose body was found on 19th Street early Wednesday morning does not appear to be suspicious. The body of William Daniel Rood Jr., 33, of Oak Hill, was found shortly after midnight near the former Ohio Valley Trading Post and CVS location at ...
PARKERSBURG — The Parkersburg Utility Board’s Water Division will flush water lines in the city and surrounding service areas starting at 10 p.m. today. Flushing will continue around the clock until the work is completed, expected to happen around 3 a.m. Sunday. Flushing will begin on ...