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Wood County assessor calculating number to seek for budget fix

PARKERSBURG – The Wood County Assessor's Office is working on coming up with a dollar amount to request from County Commissioners to make up for a projected budget shortfall. Commissioners and Assessor John Kelly discussed the matter during Thursday’s regular meeting. Officials have discovered the office will be short around $357,000 in the Assessor’s Valuation Fund by the end of the current fiscal year on June 30, 2027. Kelly has been looking at ways to address the shortfall by cutting expenses, having already let two people go from his office, instituting a spending freeze and ...

Mistrial declared in Clancy case

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The top court in Massachusetts has refused to stop the judge in the Lindsay Clancy case from declaring a mistrial, the judge said in court on Friday, after jurors said for a third time they could not reach a verdict. Judge William Sullivan announced in court that ...

Capito, Justice focus remarks on energy at 90th annual W.Va. Chamber meeting

WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS – The second day of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce’s 90th Annual Meeting and Business Summit started off with a focus on energy and the state's two U.S. senators suggesting the nation should turn to the Mountain State once again. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and ...

Picture This: The Start of It All

The towboat Walter Charlie Neale passes Monday by the rear of the Natalie Jane, the first sternwheeler to arrive at the Ohio River Levee for the Ohio River Sternwheel Festival. The festival, which will be the 50th held in Marietta, begins Sept. 11. (Photo by Art Smith)

Belpre man indicted for violating protection order 13 times

MARIETTA – A Belpre man facing 13 counts of violating a protection order, among other charges, was among 16 people indicted this week by the Washington County Grand Jury. Timothy Paul Satterfield, 45, was indicted on a fourth-degree felony count of menacing by stalking and a third-degree felony count of tampering with evidence, in addition to the 13 fifth-degree felony counts of violating a protection order and a first-degree misdemeanor charge of intimidation of an attorney, victim or witness in a criminal case. According to court documents, the incidents happened between July 31 and ...