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Moving Merchandise: Five Star helps deliver Girl Scout cookies

Five Star Moving & Storage Inc., a local agent for Wheaton Van Lines, spent the larger part of March helping to distribute Girl Scout cookies to the Girls Scouts of Black Diamond Girl Scout. Together Five Star Moving & Storage and the Black Diamond Girl Scout Council delivered almost half a ...

Camden Clark planning to build new East Tower

PARKERSBURG – The Camden Clark Medical Center will be expanding into a new patient tower by the end of the decade that will specialize in care for women and children. WVU Medicine officials announced this week a $135 million investment that will create the new East Tower, a five-floor ...

O’Brien introduces bill to require JobsOhio to be transparent

State Sen. Sandra O’Brien, a Republican whose district includes all of Trumbull County, introduced legislation requiring JobsOhio to comply with open records and meetings laws. O’Brien, R-Lenox, said, "JobsOhio was created by the government and is funded with public dollars. If we’re using public dollars to create jobs, shouldn’t the public know what jobs were created and if the money was well spent?” The bill was referred to the Senate Finance Committee. JobsOhio was created in 2011 during the gubernatorial administration of Republican John Kasich as a private nonprofit ...

Morrisey talks tax relief during stop in Parkersburg

PARKERSBURG – The governor was in Parkersburg Tuesday talking about what he called meaningful tax relief lawmakers were able to provide over the last legislative session. In bookending Tuesday’s visit with a visit he made back in January, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey was at ...

Piggly Wiggly no more: Local grocery stores get new names

PARKERSBURG – The familiar Piggly Wiggly name has disappeared from multiple local grocery stores. Banners showing the new names of the stores are being placed at three establishments in Parkersburg, one in Vienna and one in The Plains ahead of long-term signage, said Jeremy Fellure, ...