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Picture This: Charleston celebrates America 250

West Virginia National Guard Adj. Gen. Jim Seward and his wife Leslie Seward joined Gov. Patrick Morrisey and First Lady Denise Morrisey Thursday take the first rides on the George Washington gondola on the America 250 Big Wheel. The Capitol City Celebration festivities for the 250th ...

Wood County Commission discusses HOME Consortium, cooling centers

PARKERSBURG — Ahead of the holiday weekend, the Wood County Commission held a relaxed meeting Thursday morning to discuss local housing programs as well as area cooling stations. City of Parkersburg Development Projects Administrator Chris Rynd discussed the Parkersburg-Wood County HOME ...

A holiday note to our readers

The Parkersburg News and Sentinel will not publish a print edition this weekend, due to Independence Day, nor on any of the other federal holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President’s Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and ...

Wirt grad Alex Trembly living out dream as fighter pilot

LAS VEGAS – The letter from first grade still exists – proof that Maj. Alex Trembly is living out his dream career. The 2011 graduate from Wirt County High School is an F-16 Viper (officially named by the Air Force as the Fighting Falcon) pilot, who was assigned to the 55th Fighter ...

Sistersville ferry fate remains unknown

At 6 p.m., July 1, Mayor Bill Rice called the members of the Sistersville council to order. The only item on the special meeting agenda was the future of a ferry operation between West Virginia and Ohio. For more than 200 years, the ferry has been the main way local residents have crossed ...