The mayor of Glenville has resigned to become the executive director of a state development agency. Mark Sarver, a professor in the College of Business at Glenville State University, submitted his resignation on July 31 and announced he will become the executive director of the West Virginia ...
A new banking headquarters under construction in Parkersburg was heralded Wednesday as a vision and a commitment to the community. A ceremonial ground breaking was held for the new Community Bank at Avery and Eighth streets where a 22,000 square foot three-story facility will open by the ...
BELPRE – Music, rides, games and food will fill Civitan Park from Thursday to Sunday during the 94th annual Belpre Homecoming Festival. For the third consecutive year, the festival will span four days instead of three. “A lot of people actually wanted us to add Sunday, so we did,” ...
Workers from the the City of Parkersburg Street Department paint one of the dozens of footprints that will mark the route of the News and Sentinel Half Marathon on Aug. 15. The race will follow a new route this year that utilizes both the Parkersburg Ohio River Trail and Fort Boreman. To ...
CHARLESTON - Elliott Pritt, the former Democrat-turned-Republican lawmaker who resigned from the West Virginia House of Delegates after being accused by federal authorities of sexually exploiting a child, will now no longer appear as a candidate in November. According to the Secretary of ...
PARKERSBURG – A downtown landmark will soon have a new owner. Blennerhassett Hotel owners Wayne Waldeck and Lee Rector have reached an agreement to sell the iconic hotel to Virginia-based Taylor Hospitality, the company announced in a press release Tuesday. Rector and Waldeck purchased the ...
