CHARLESTON — With Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s first special session of 2025 likely to be focused on health care costs for public employees, lawmakers will have to contend with what to do about the Public Employees Insurance Agency. “That was kicked down the road for many, many years,” ...
MARIETTA — The third reading of an ordinance to reconfigure the intersection of Front and Greene streets failed during Thursday’s Marietta City Council meeting on a 3-2 vote. “I am not sure that all the I’s have been dotted and T’s have been crossed on this,” Councilman Jon Grimm ...
PARKERSBURG — The West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine hosted Education Day on Friday at the school’s Central West campus site in Parkersburg. The school opened the Parkersburg location over 16 years ago and has been providing hands-on clinical experience for students who come ...
PARKERSBURG — The North Star Child Advocacy Center looked toward the future with an open house Friday to show off its newly expanded facility. People from around the community, local leaders and law enforcement officials came to the North Star offices on Star Avenue to see where the ...
MARIETTA — A coordinated preservation effort is underway to protect one of Marietta’s most iconic landmarks — the Memorial to the Start Westward of America. The historic sandstone sculpture stands in Muskingum Park. City officials, the State of Ohio, preservation specialists and a local ...
MARIETTA — When Max Anderson’s family moved to Marietta from California seven years ago his adjustment to the area was hindered by the COVID-19 virus. Since then he has progressed and is taking the first steps toward a career in physical therapy. Anderson is a rising senior at Marietta ...