Picture This: Leak at Southwood Park pond
South end of Southwood Park pond bank exposed as water levels reduce Friday afternoon.
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 ...
Gerber Dental still all smiles 80s years into business
ST. MARYS – A family dental practice in St. Marys is celebrating its 80th anniversary. Gerber Family Dental Practice was founded in 1946 by the late Dr. C.R. Gerber Jr. and has been continuously operated by his children and grandchildren in a tradition spanning three generations of ...
Teen of the Week: Dance is preparing Parsons for life
PARKERSBURG – An early life involved in dance has helped prepare Liliana Parsons for college and beyond. Parsons, 18, is a recent graduate of Parkersburg High School and a freshman at West Virginia University in Morgantown. She has been doing ballet for 14 years, starting when she was 4 ...