MARIETTA — Joe and Linda Chlapaty have committed $55 million to Marietta College to renovate first-year student residence halls and build a new health sciences facility, President Kathleen Poorman Dougherty announced Friday during her State of the College address. The announcement at ...
PARKERSBURG – The United Way Alliance of the MOV began its annual campaign for the 2026-2027 season. United Way also recognized its “Leadership Circle” donors at its annual Pacesetter Recognition event. The campaign supports locally funded agencies as well as internal programming ...
PARKERSBURG — For much of its hundred-year history, the Smoot Theatre operated alongside other local theaters to bring first vaudeville and later movies to residents of the community. The Smoot, on Fifth Street between Juliana and Market streets, opened Oct. 18, 1926. The theater was ...
PARKERSBURG – Dance and helping others are two things that are important to Madison Lowers. Madison, a junior at Parkersburg High School, has been involved in dance in one way or another for a big part of her life. She is a member of the school’s Red Wing dance group and she is the ...
PARKERSBURG – Almost two years to the day after demolition began on the old City Park pavilion, the city will officially open the doors on its larger replacement Monday. A ribbon-cutting for the nearly $15 million Simms Powell Pavilion is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday, followed by an open ...
MARIETTA — Samantha Tromblay was sworn in Wednesday morning as the fourth female police officer in Marietta’s history and the first woman hired by the department in 25 years, according to Police Chief Katie Warden. Tromblay, a lateral transfer from the Columbus Police Department, lives ...
