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Annual quilt show in November

PARKERSBURG – The 22nd annual Mid-Ohio Valley Heritage Quilt Show will be held 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 7-15 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, 137 Juliana St., Parkersburg. Admission to the show is the price to get in the museum, $4 for adults and $2 for children 4-12. The ...

Fall Shop Hop Saturday in Marietta

MARIETTA – The Fall Shop Hop in downtown Marietta, hosted by Marietta Main Street, will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. More than a dozen businesses will participate and can be recognized by the balloons outside their entrances. Each business has donated a gift card or item toward a prize basket, and every purchase at participating shops will earn a raffle ticket for the drawing. Clutch Collective will be collecting good used books for its Adult Book Fair on Sunday. The seasonal Shop Hops bring the downtown retailers, all independently owned, a much appreciated boost in ...

SIPS Coffee brings cancer awareness efforts to Steelers game

PARKERSBURG — SIPS Coffee’s efforts to support breast cancer screenings took owner Jen Allman to Pittsburgh, where the business was invited to serve fans outside a Steelers game. For Allman, who has twice been diagnosed with breast cancer, the invitation offered an opportunity to bring ...

Parkersburg teen wins first place at Tsubasacon

A Parkersburg girl won first place in a cosplay contest at the Tsubasacon convention in Charleston. Audrey (Tobi) Cox, 14, the daughter of Mic and Lindsay Cox, won first place in the Runway Division. The competition was held Friday, Saturday and Sunday. “I was really surprised,” Cox, ...

Campbell in running for WVU homecoming court

A student from Parkersburg is in the Homecoming Court at West Virginia University where students today and Wednesday can vote on the royalty. Senior Lakyn Campbell is a journalism and political science major from Parkersburg and graduated with academic honors from Parkersburg High School in ...

Marietta man in running for Super Dad

MARIETTA – A Marietta man is leading in his group in an online contest to be chosen Super Dad for an Ace Hardware commercial. Derek Games entered the contest in July and learned around mid-September his application was chosen in the first round of competition. The notice encouraged dads ...