VIENNA — Lt. Rob Pifer with Vienna Police Department is set to retire Tuesday, after 25 years of serving the community. In the past 25 years, Pifer has held the position of a patrolman, sergeant and lieutenant. “It has been a very rewarding 25 years, being able to get out and serve the ...
WALKER — Several volunteer fire departments battled a brush fire Sunday afternoon in the Walker area which caused power outages affecting an unknown number of customers. The Wood County 911 Center reported receiving a call regarding a brush fire in the 200 block of Mount Carmel Road in the ...
PARKERSBURG — Local nursing education programs are stepping up by donating needed protective gear to the WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nursing and Health Sciences division at West Virginia University at Parkersburg and the nursing ...
PARKERSBURG — A labor organization has donated needed supplies and personal protective equipment to WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center. The West Virginia and Appalachian Laborers’ District Council donated 20 N95 respirators, nine boxes of latex gloves, six cans of Lysol spray, three ...
CHARLESTON (AP) — West Virginia reported the state’s first death linked to the new coronavirus pandemic on Sunday. The fatality involved an 88-year-old woman from Marion County, the Department of Health and Human Resources said in a news release. The statement said the death was confirmed ...
CHARLESTON — The May primary in West Virginia is still on, but while county and state election officials work to get absentee ballot applications in the hands of registered voters, those wishing to replace Gov. Jim Justice in November are finding new ways to make their case to ...
MARIETTA — A Spanish exchange student at Marietta High School was forced to cut her time in Ohio short after fears of COVID-19 sent her home. Alejandra Gutierrez Portilla, 16, a junior at Marietta High School and exchange student through the ICES exchange program, was living with Jessica ...
PARKERSBURG — Two presumptive positive cases of COVID-19 in Roane County, and one confirmed case in Wirt County, have been reported to the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department. The MOVHD response team will be contacting all individuals identified as being connected to the case, said MOVHD ...
PARKERSBURG — While the coronavirus has shut mostly everything down and social distancing is the norm, for a lot of people that means the loss of their routine of going to the gym. But many gyms in the Mid-Ohio Valley decided to take the gym to the people — online. “When we realized ...
BELPRE — While many scramble to get food on the grocery store shelves, carryout restaurants and fast-food remain available to feed a family. But there’s a branch out there that is still at the public’s service many might not think of - food trucks. Bill Richardson, owner of Q Wagon ...
PARKERSBURG —While the COVID-19 virus brings the world to a halt, many businesses are feeling the effects. One especially impacted has been the weddings and corporate events industry, including venues and florists. Keith McClung, owner of Crown Florals, said so far he has had one wedding ...
VINCENT, Ohio — For one Mid-Ohio Valley couple, the coronavirus meant postponing an important date — their wedding. “Yesterday I literally had a mental breakdown because I had gotten all these notifications,” said Mariah Mason, about the ever-changing coronavirus situation. “I ...
PARKERSBURG — People weren’t keeping far enough apart at the basketball courts in City Park, so Parkersburg officials removed the temptation. They “were failing to abide by the physical distancing guidelines, and after repeated notification many failed to comply, so I as mayor elected ...
PARKERSBURG — Wood County Schools will have 15 feeding sites Tuesday when it reopens its student meals program. Volunteers will be distributing boxes containing five days of meals at locations throughout the county. Students must be present for meals to be provided. The distribution will ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice was not in a good mood Friday during his weekly coronavirus briefing after a COVID-19 death was falsely reported to the Department of Health and Human Resources on Friday morning “This just makes me flat mad, that’s all there is to it,” Justice said from ...
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed Friday that 20 new cases of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been officially reported to the state, making the total positive case count 96. New cases were identified in Berkeley, Greenbrier, ...
RIPLEY — The Jackson County Health Department is keeping the community informed on the latest updates about seven confirmed COVID-19 cases as of Friday afternoon. The Jackson County Health Department creates a live video nearly every day to provide an update of the status of the COVID-19 ...
WAVERLY — For the past five years, Williamstown resident Rock Wilson has been working to bring an open-air, drive-in church to the community. Similar to a drive-in move theater, Wilson got the idea for Crossroads Open Air Sanctuary after attending a drive-in church in Daytona Beach, ...
MINERAL WELLS — One fatality was reported and two people were taken to the hospital following a two-car crash at 4827 Elizabeth Pike in Mineral Wells at 10:50 a.m. Friday. According to Wood County Sheriff Steve Stephens, Ezra Lee Carder, 20, of Elizabeth, was pronounced deceased at the scene ...
PARKERSBURG — The chief elections officer in Wood County is preparing in case replacement poll workers are needed because of COVID-19 no-shows. County Clerk Mark Rhodes said several poll workers have said they will work election day if absolutely needed. “But they don’t want to,” he ...