PARKERSBURG — Dust off your aprons, it’s time for the Parkersburg News and Sentinel and The Marietta Times Cookbook Contest. For the 71st year, participants will get to prove if they are a cook-of-all-trades. From now through Sept. 19, community members are encouraged to turn in ...
PARKERSBURG — One of Parkersburg’s huge flower baskets hang near St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church at 532 Market St. The area will be filled Saturday morning by runners and walkers following their completion of the News and Sentinel Half Marathon and Two Mile races. (Photo by Art Smith)
PARKERSBURG — The 2025 Parkersburg Homecoming Royalty was crowned at an April 26 pageant at West Virginia University at Parkersburg that included 17 contestants. Emma Sloan, 17, of Walton, is the 2025 Parkersburg Homecoming Festival Queen. A senior at Roane County High School, she serves as ...
COOLVILLE — One lane of a bridge in Coolville is open to traffic less a month after a culvert collapse rendered the span impassable. The bridge crew for Ohio Department of Transportation District 10 installed a 72-inch reinforced concrete culvert to replace the one beneath Ohio 144 that ...
MARIETTA — As children head back to class in the Marietta and Belpre City school districts, they will have access to a variety of pediatric-focused health services offered in their school buildings through a new partnership between the districts and Akron Children’s. Akron Children’s ...
MARIETTA — Cole Stine is entering his senior year at Marietta High School and has planned out life after graduation. To prepare for his role in the family business, Stine Carpentry LLC, the 17-year-old enrolled in the electricity vocational program at the Washington County Career Center. ...