Most Mid-Ohio Valley residents can feel it in the air. Boating season is upon us. But before it reaches its summer peak, the West Virginia Department of Natural Resources is using this National Safe Boating Week to remind boaters (and their passengers) of safe boating practices — in ...
Dumbfounded by the results of the May 12 election in West Virginia? If so, the second question must be: Did you vote? According to preliminary numbers, it is likely you did not. West Virginia Secretary of State Kris Warner announced last week that only approximately 21% of eligible voters ...
When it comes to elections, there are winners and there are losers. But I can’t help feeling like no one really won after last Tuesday’s Republican primary elections. Sure, individual candidates won and lost. But otherwise, the two factions within the West Virginia Republican Party — ...
In the previous Look Back, the existence of local, “so called” tunnels were shared. The last “tunnel” mentioned was at the Meldahl house in Washington Bottoms. Just across the Ohio River and a half mile or so upstream is the “Curtis” house. Built circa 1798 near the mouth of the ...
* The Museums of the Mid-Ohio Valley and Gary Traugh helped make last week’s Professional Fire Fighters of West Virginia convention in Parkersburg even more special with the loan of an 1854 hand-operated fire wagon that had been used by the Parkersburg Fire Department. It was the first time ...
A unique opportunity exists for creating an iconic destination for the MOV by installing a miniature single lane classic covered bridge over a small stream called Pond Run. Help is needed from the Army, CSX and Congressional leaders in order to complete the bicycle river trail from ...
