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Community Resource Fair will bring services together

MARIETTA – People will be able to learn about services provided by a number of community organizations on Sunday during GoPacks' annual Community Resource Fair. The event is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. Sunday at the Lafayette Hotel in Marietta. “We have 35 organizations who have registered to ...

All three Tucker County Commissioners plead not guilty at hearing

PARSONS – All three Tucker County Commissioners entered not guilty pleas to misdemeanor charges in circuit court Tuesday morning. Tucker County Commission President Michael William Rosenau, Commissioner Frederick J. Davis Jr., and Commissioner Timothy Paul Knotts are each charged with one ...

Grand opening for new Head Start

PARKERSBURG – The AFL-CIO Appalachian Council Head Start is opening a new center in Wood County. Four Head Start centers in the county have been consolidated into the newly renovated and expanded Cedar Grove Head Start, 490 Cedar Grove Road, Parkersburg, where a grand opening will be held ...

Meet Me on Market returns Friday

PARKERSBURG — Downtown businesses and organizations will offer live music, art, food and family activities Friday during Meet Me on Market. The event will run from 5-7:30 p.m. along Market Street, with several businesses remaining open late, according to a release from Downtown ...

Picture This: Belpre welcome sign broken by vehicle

Traffic drives past the destroyed Belpre welcome sign along Washington Boulevard Monday. The sign, made from an old grindstone and placed by the Belpre Lions Club, laid in pieces nearby. Mayor Susan Abdella said a car struck the sign more than a week ago.

Correction

An incorrect description of a vote process appeared in a story in the Aug. 14 edition, regarding the Aug. 10 meeting of the Washington County Board of Commissioners. The proposal of a motion for a moratorium for injection wells, died on the floor with no second.