PARKERSBURG - Residents of Parkersburg criticized city council’s agenda for having only one resolution item during the regular meeting on Tuesday evening. The agenda for the Parkersburg City Council meeting also included no unfinished business. The resolution was to reappoint Tom Farrah ...
An annual electronics recycling collection will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Momentive Performance Materials Plant, 10851 Energy Highway, in Friendly. Sponsored by the Pleasants County Solid Waste Authority, all residents of nearby counties, non-profits and small businesses can drop off any broken or unwanted electronic equipment. Individuals or businesses with more than 20 items to recycle should call (304) 652-8413 or (304) 6528487 to make special arrangements prior to the event. The collection has been hosted by Momentive for 17 years. More than 614,000 pounds of ...
CHARLESTON – Four people from the region were named Monday as History Heroes by the West Virginia Department of Tourism. They were Dorothy "Bibbee" Enoch of Wood County, Fred Harmon of Wood County and Earl Parsons and Zach Parsons of Tyler County, according to a news release from the ...
CHARLESTON – Attorneys for U.S. Sen. Jim Justice and his family continue to argue that a Texas-based hotel chain and Virginia bank colluded to transfer the family’s loan debt on the historic Greenbrier Resort in order to take it away. Attorneys for the Justice family filed a consolidated reply on June 5 in response to previous filings by attorneys for TRT Holdings and Carter Bank and Trust in a case filed by the Justices in Greenbrier County Circuit Court seeking a preliminary injunction against the two companies. The state case was filed in April by the Justice family following a ...
PARKERSBURG – The American Red Cross on Monday issued an urgent need for donors of all blood types. Scheduled donations, which account for 90% of all blood donations, have sharply dropped in recent weeks, Sharon Kesselring, executive director of the American Red Cross of the Ohio Valley, said. “As a result, the blood supply has fallen by several thousand units in just a week, raising concerns that the decline could worsen as we enter trauma season,” she said. “This period between Memorial Day and Labor Day brings an increase in severe injuries from car accidents, ATV crashes, ...
From left, Wood County Board of Education President Justin Raber discusses agenda items with Board member Debbie Hendershot prior to the start of Tuesday evening's meeting where several student athletes were recognized. For more information read the full article in the Thursday edition of the ...
