PARKERSBURG — “I never dreamed that I would be down here in a boat today, no way.” Bus driver with the Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority Bruce “Dwayne” Kesterson was met with surprise Thursday afternoon when he came to Point Park and found out he won a fishing boat through the ...
PARKERSBURG — The Board of Health on Thursday approved a 5 percent across-the-board raise for Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department employees. “This hopefully will accomplish two things,” board Chairman Stephen Worden. “One, improve morale on our over-worked staff and two, it may make the positions more ... attractive” when attempting to hire people. The move came a week after Wood County Commission President Blair Couch, the vice chairman of the board, said during a commission meeting that the department was having trouble keeping employees. Aside from the pressures of working ...
PARKERSBURG — A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist who was scheduled to come to Parkersburg in October to speak is postponing her appearance until next spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Columnist Connie Schultz was scheduled to speak in the auditorium of the Blennerhassett Middle School on ...
CHARLESTON — Decreases in active COVID-19 cases slowed or stopped in some Mid-Ohio Valley counties, and the deaths of three area residents were attributed to the virus, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Even with 1,477 new cases reported since Wednesday’s update, the overall number of active cases in the state declined again to 15,177. That’s down from 15,280 the day before, following multiple days of steep drops from a high of 29,257 last Friday. Wood County’s active cases went from 734 to 732, after multiple days of double- and ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Historical Society has canceled a meeting for 7 p.m. Monday at the Fire Training Center due to rising COVID-19 concerns.
CHARLESTON — The Centers for Disease Control have been double-counting and misreporting the number of West Virginians getting COVID-19 vaccinations, state officials revealed Wednesday. They placed the percent of eligible state residents receiving at least one dose of the COVID vaccine at just 64.4 percent after learning of errors at the CDC. Past data had shown more than 74 percent of West Virginians getting at least one dose of the vaccine. “We have identified a problem with the CDC contractor data that was being provided to us, and it was specifically related to the Federal ...
