Many spectators at Saturday’s Washington County Fair parade weren’t there as passive observers. Rather than try to catch candy tossed by units heading up Front Street to the county fairgrounds, Waterford resident Crimson Gribble and her family offered a target – a cornhole ...
MARIETTA – Newsweek has named Marietta the No. 1 Best Historical Small Town in America. The Pioneer City was among 10 historical small towns selected by a panel and contributors and then voted on by readers as the best of the best. “Fantastic news,” Harley Noland, the former owner of ...
GALLIPOLIS – One man was killed Saturday night in a single-vehicle accident on Ohio 850 in Gallia County, according to the Gallipolis Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol. Jeremy Morehart, 35, Bidwell, Ohio, was killed when his 2004 Honda Accord went off the road, the patrol said. Morehead ...
PARKERSBURG — The city’s Urban Renewal Authority this week approved the sale of two lots to churches and voted to table the question of whether to acquire a property via eminent domain. The authority, which consists of all members of Parkersburg City Council, voted 8-0 to approve the sale ...
VOLCANO — The oil and gas history of the Volcano area of Wood County is coming more into focus as a museum celebrating that history just underwent an expansion at Mountwood Park. The Volcano Museum which is in the Mountwood Park Visitors Center commemorated its new Naylor Room this past ...
CHARLESTON — As Gov. Patrick Morrisey challenges the West Virginia Legislature to codify his executive order allowing for religious exemptions to school-age vaccines, an annual poll has respondents telling Morrisey and lawmakers to leave the social issues behind. Rex Repass, the chief ...