Fall Shop Hop Saturday in Marietta

October 15, 2026

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 ...

Benson discusses history, partnership with descendant of Washington family

October 15, 2026

MORGANTOWN – George Washington was a teenager employed as part of a surveying party when he first laid eyes on the land that would become Jefferson County, West Virginia. He was immediately struck by both the beauty and quality of the land, as well the abundance of natural resources - so ...

West Virginia education officials unveil overhaul of $2B school funding formula

October 15, 2026

CHARLESTON - For the last several years, lawmakers have talked about reforming West Virginia's formula for sending tax dollars to the state's 55 county school systems. Now, the Department of Education believes it has a fix. During Wednesday's meeting of the West Virginia Board of Education, ...

Deem held without bond in fatal shooting case

October 15, 2026

PARKERSBURG – A Parkersburg woman is being held without bond after being arrested last week for first-degree murder in a shooting last week in Parkersburg. Samantha Deem, 33, of Parkersburg appeared in the court of Wood County Circuit Judge Jason Wharton this week where the judge ordered ...

Moore, Parsi meet in debate for 2nd Congressional District

October 15, 2026

With 20 days to go before November’s midterm election, Mountain State congressional candidates Riley Moore and Ace Parsi took on the issues, and each other, in a televised debate in Martinsburg on Wednesday. Moore, the former state treasurer and nephew of current West Virginia Sen. Shelley ...

SIPS Coffee brings cancer awareness efforts to Steelers game

October 14, 2026

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 ...