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Nearly $157,000 in Marietta employee payments questioned

MARIETTA — Nearly $157,000 in employee vacation and holiday payments is being questioned in an active state investigation, while a former Marietta finance chairman is warning a notice sent to the city’s surety company could increase bonding costs or jeopardize future coverage. Letters from City Council leaders identified $156,881.50 in alleged overpayments. The figure does not include uncalculated amounts related to vacation proration or questions about $68,186.37 in overtime paid to one employee. During an Aug. 6 Marietta City Council meeting, former Councilman and Finance ...

Parkersburg City Council to vote on recycling fee hike, amendments in response to ruling

PARKERSBURG – The city’s recycling surcharge would double to $3 for all customers under an ordinance on the agenda for Tuesday’s Parkersburg City Council meeting. The fee increase is one of multiple changes proposed in response to a Wood County Circuit Court judge’s ruling that the city’s new subscription-based recycling program does not comply with state code requiring cities with populations of more than 10,000 to implement a mandatory curbside recycling program. Under the program approved by council earlier this year and implemented in May, all residents are charged a ...

Detroit drug ring indictments include Parkersburg, Morgantown residents

MORGANTOWN – Matthew L. Harvey didn’t parse words during his remarks Thursday. “The people are not misguided,” he said. “They are not ‘accidental’ criminals. They are predators.” Harvey, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, was speaking generally on Thursday about a conduit of one-way commerce lethally linking the Motor City of Detroit to the Mountain State of West Virginia. Specifically, though, he was at the Erickson Alumni Center of the state’s flagship university on the rainy morning to announce the takedown of an extensive drug ...

Belpre school board advances new 6-12 building design

BELPRE — The Belpre City Schools Board of Education advanced plans for a new school for grades 6-12 on Thursday, authorizing the project’s design team to begin preparing construction documents. The unanimous vote approved design development submissions to the state and authorized the ...

Oliverio named to WVU Parkersburg post

PARKERSBURG - A Pleasants County woman has been named the director of teacher education at West Virginia University at Parkersburg. Paula Oliverio has had a long career with Pleasants County Schools and recently left as interventionist at Belmont Elementary School. She brings more than 40 ...