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Sweet times in store at third annual Sweet Corn Festival in Beverly this Saturday

BEVERLY - The third annual Sweet Corn Festival will take place from 4-9 p.m. Saturday at Dodge Park in Beverly. The festival is hosted by Beverly-Waterford Growth & Revitalization Organization. Attendees can enjoy an evening of live music, games for the whole family and food including grilled sweet corn provided by Witten Farm Market, hamburgers, hot dogs and homemade apple dumplings. This year, local restaurant El Costeno will make Mexican street corn as well. "We'll be roasting corn from 1 p.m. to about 8:30 p.m. for the event," said Sam Skinner, one of the organizers of the ...

PARKERSBURG — Local nature photographer Danny Carpenter is the featured artist this month at WesBanco at 415 Market St. Carpenter stepped in after a family emergency prevented the artist originally scheduled for August from exhibiting. His display features previously exhibited wildlife ...

New course debuts at Parkersburg News and Sentinel Half-Marathon

PARKERSBURG – About 1,000 runners and walkers took to the streets of Parkersburg on Saturday morning for The Parkersburg News and Sentinel Half Marathon and Two Mile Race. Art Smith, co-director of the races, said the event brought residents, volunteers and visitors together on what ...

Parkersburg Homecoming puts community first

PARKERSBURG — Parkersburg Homecoming brought live music, children’s activities and free family entertainment to the city Saturday as organizers sought to give residents one final celebration before the end of summer. Donna Sue Helmick, president of the Parkersburg Homecoming board, said ...

Memorial awarded $5M in lawsuit against Camden Clark

PARKERSBURG – A federal jury found Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Corp. liable for one count each of civil conspiracy and vicarious liability and awarded Memorial Health System $5 million in compensatory damages. The verdict was reached Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia in Wheeling following a trial that began Aug. 5. “Memorial Health System is pleased that after a decade of investigation and appeal a jury has found Camden Clark Medical Center guilty of conspiracy and vicarious liability against Marietta Memorial Hospital,” the health ...

Festival brought many eras of history to life in Marietta

MARIETTA – Many areas of history were the topics over the weekend at the America 250th Festival of Living History in Marietta. Historical re-enactors came together at Muskingum Park on Front Street at the invitation of the Frontiersman's Friend Foundation to commemorate local history and ...