BELPRE — The Belpre Area Chamber of Commerce will hold Shop Small/Shop Local during regular business hours July 18 in the Belpre and Ohio 339 areas. Member businesses have been encouraged to offer specials that day or sponsor a drawing for a gift certificate or card usable at their location, ...
MARIETTA — Peoples Bancorp Inc., parent company of Peoples Bank, has promoted Rich Vaughan to executive vice president. He will continue to lead the retail network, business banking and the government guaranty program of Peoples Bank. The retail network includes 77 bank branches across ...
CHARLESTON — A Williamstown High School student is the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s 2020 winner of the Dr. James F. Dunphy Memorial Scholarship. Zoe Daugherty, a junior at Williamstown High, successfully auditioned and interviewed for the scholarship, which offers private music ...
PARKERSBURG — On Thursday, June 25, Wood County had a total 59 positive COVID-19 cases, by the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department’s count. As of Wednesday, that number had jumped to 86, an increase of nearly 46 percent. “Right now, I think we’re at a point where it’s either going to ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County's number of positive COVID-19 cases has nearly doubled in a little more than a week. According to a release this afternoon from the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department, there have been 114 positive cases since March, 28 of them recorded in the last two days. On ...
CHARLESTON — As cases of the coronavirus spike across the country and in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice said he is seriously considering mandating face masks and covering in buildings. “I am very seriously considering that at the beginning of next week we may very well have to go to ...
PARKERSBURG — The 2020 municipal paving project is set to go the extra mile — about 27 of them actually — with the use of a process aimed at rejuvenating rather than resurfacing some streets. The nearly $1.3 million project will see sections of Fairview and Camden avenues paved as well ...
MARIETTA — A Belpre man received a mandatory four years of prison with the potential of up to six years at a sentencing hearing Thursday in Washington County Common Pleas Court. Andrew J. Neal, 38, of 601 Barclay St., was arrested in April on a charge of rape of a victim under the age of 13 ...
BELPRE — The Belpre Homecoming Committee has canceled all festival activities and entertainment for 2020, Chairman Kelly Cox said. “We had hoped that Ohio Gov. (Mike) DeWine would have had guidelines in place by July 1 to allow festivals to continue. Although county fairs are permitted, ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Commission Thursday discussed holding jury trials from Wood County Circuit Court and Magistrate Court in the Black annex. Circuit Court Judge Jason Wharton said changes have been made to the court rooms to adhere with social distancing and to comply with the ...
RIPLEY — The City of Ripley will hold its 150th July 4th festivities this weekend, albeit with a few 2020 twists. Mayor Carolyn Rader said the city has adapted this year’s celebration to follow health and social distancing guidelines due to COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. Even so, ...
VIENNA — The 27th annual Cincinnati Reds Legends youth baseball and softball camp was recently held at Jackson Park in Vienna and featured a legendary infielder for the Reds. Pokey Reese, a former second Baseman, attended both days of the camp and worked on infield skills with the ...
PARKERSBURG — Westbrook Health Services has been awarded a $2 million Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic grant to expand and improve access to behavioral health care. The award over two years is from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. “The grant will ...
PARKERSBURG — A public art exhibit scheduled this weekend at City Park has been canceled and rescheduled, an organizer said. The Art of Freedom was moved to September over concerns with the rising number of coronavirus cases in Wood County, organizer Wendy Tuck said. Local artists, ...
CHARLESTON — All rest areas and Welcome Centers in West Virginia will be open this weekend for travelers over the July 4 holidays, the West Virginia Division of Highways said. The centers on I-64, I-68, I-77 and I-79 are being maintained during the pandemic as personnel are working on an ...
CHARLESTON — A computer error overnight caused the state to wake up Wednesday to a state budget for fiscal year 2020 $1.4 million under estimates and unbalanced. “We’re going through a slight technical issue. A bump that’s just happened,” Gov. Jim Justice said. “In the scope of ...
CHARLESTON - As cases of the coronavirus spike across the country and in West Virginia, Gov. Jim Justice said he is seriously considering mandating face masks and coverings in buildings. Speaking Thursday during his final coronavirus briefing before the start of the July 4 weekend, Justice ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s lone Democratic U.S. Senator took to the airwaves Tuesday to express his frustrations with Gov. Jim Justice, what he calls the slow pace of distributing funding to local governments and a plan to use coronavirus relief funds for highway projects. Sen. Joe ...
PARKERSBURG — The City of Parkersburg received a $2.2 million reimbursement from the state for police and fire wages and benefits. Mayor Tom Joyce announced Wednesday evening that the West Virginia C.A.R.E.S. Act Coronavirus Relief Fund provided the city this week with $2,201,986.94 for ...
MT. ZION — County school districts are working together with parents, teachers and administrators to discuss options for students to return back to school in the fall. Calhoun, Pleasants and Jackson Counties will use the feedback from these groups along with guidelines from the state to ...