Twenty-five years have passed since Parkersburg native Mary Lou Hague was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York City. Liza Adams, her mother, remembers everything about…
W.Va. charter board considering seeking same border privileges as traditional public schools
CHARLESTON - West Virginia's small system of virtual and physical public charter schools is setting its sights on attracting students…
Voices of Flight 93 still echo
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. — Turning off State Highway 30 near Shanksville, Pa., into the Flight 93 Memorial site does not…
Picture This: A Fresh Coat of Paint
Artsbridge and the City of Belpre are collaborating with students of Belpre High School art teacher Chad Stevens to paint…
Commission wants meeting with Peoples Cartage leaders over bill related to fire
PARKERSBURG – The Wood County Commission wants to have a meeting with representatives of Peoples Cartage regarding an outstanding bill…
PHS students help younger gardeners at Criss
PARKERSBURG – Parkersburg High School's Native Roots Club helped Criss Elementary School students harvest vegetables, prepare garden beds for winter and…
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Submissions open for annual cookbook contest
PARKERSBURG — As autumn approaches, so does the annual tradition of the Parkersburg News…
Local Sports
Second half splurge carries PHS past Huntington, 3-1
PARKERSBURG – There’s a difference between being confident and bragging. Hailey Warman was proud…
Business
Cracking the code: Facts and truth are important
During my corporate life, the company I worked for was part of a crew doing a workover on a gas well. Suddenly we hit something hard, shallower than it should have. Whatever it was, we couldn’t get any deeper. Everything stopped while we all tried to determine what was going on. The first guess…
West Virginia takes ‘significant step forward’ in campaign to host federal nuclear campus
Tourist bureau chief retiring, interim named
MARIETTA – The vascular surgery team at Memorial Health System has received a three-star Commitment to…
MHS receives vascular surgery award
Editorials
Have we forgotten?
“Never forget.” What did we mean, when we declared as a country that we would forever remember the events and lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001? What do those words mean to the people born afterward? They are Gen Z and Gen Alpha, now. All they know is what they read in history books,…
Elections: Get off the sidelines and vote
There is no hiding on social media
Labor Day: Remember what we’re working for
Local columns
Backyard Gardener: Lettuce continue fall gardening
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! Hopefully, cool temperatures are just around the corner as the summer heat hangs on. Remember that fall is a great time to test your soil, a free service here in West Virginia. As backyard gardeners continue the harvest, contact the WVU Extension Office with your canning, freezing, gardening,…
Cracking the code: Facts and truth are important
Life Through the Lens: The necessity of ghosts
The Way I See It: Odd-looking bridge linked Marietta and Williamstown for 82 years
Obituaries
Nina Jean Allman
It is with sadness and much love that we mourn the passing of Nina Jean Allman, of Mineral Wells, on September 4, 2026, at the age of 88. Following a year of battling illnesses. Born June 8, 1938, Nina grew up on a farm in Rockport. On May 19, 1956, at age 18, she…
Clarence Ronald “Ron” Barnett
Jessica “Jessi” Rae Hixon
Arthur "Art" L. Hunt
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