Picture This: Stations of the Cross
PARKERSBURG - Nearly 100 people gathered in downtown Parkersburg Friday for the annual interdenominational Good Friday Community Stations of the Cross walk.
Camden Clark EMS marks 50 years of lifesaving service
PARKERBURG – The WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its ambulance service. An anniversary celebration was held March 31 at the Wood County Resiliency Center where Camden Clark EMS staff, hospital leaders, local officials and former EMS ...
Teen of the Week: Frontier’s Payton Tyler prepares for legal career
NEWPORT – Payton Tyler has aspirations to become a criminal defense attorney upon completing law school. Even though the 17-year-old junior has another year at Frontier High School remaining, Tyler has her eyes on the prize and plans in place for her academics in the coming years. Born ...
WVU football great scheduled for Homecoming fundraiser
PARKERSBURG - A football standout at West Virginia University who played in the NFL will be featured in a Parkersburg Homecoming Festival fundraiser this month, the Homecoming Committee has announced. Owen Schmitt, known as the Runaway Beer Truck, will be at the Homecoming Dinner and Silent ...
Lightning strikes home, tree catches fire in Reno during hail storm Wednesday
Lighting struck both a house and a tree in Reno along State Route 26 during the hail storm Wednesday night, according to Reno Volunteer Fire Chief Jon Bradford. There was another structure fire reported in Wood County by the Wood County 911 Center but it could not be confirmed what caused ...
Multiple fire departments respond to two fires Tuesday
PARKERSBURG – Multiple local fire departments responded to a brush fire and structure fire Tuesday evening. The Vienna Volunteer Fire Department was called in to a quarter-mile-long brush fire around 5 p.m. according to Vienna Chief Steve Scholl on Wednesday. Scholl said the fire was near Staunton Avenue and Corning Park and spreading toward the railroad and neighboring businesses. “Once we arrived on the scene we had the fire out within an hour,” said Scholl. He said the Parkersburg Fire Department was busy putting out a structure fire around the same time so they called ...