PARKERSBURG – Members of Parkersburg City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance crafted to comply with a judge’s order about the municipal recycling program, after amending it to reflect suggestions from the plaintiff in a lawsuit that prompted the ruling. The ordinance ...
PARKERSBURG – Repeated break-ins at the former Fairplains Elementary School have left the interior stripped of copper wiring, gasoline siphoned from cars and windows broken, prompting Wood County Schools officials to say demolishing the building may now be cheaper than renovating it. Safety ...
PARKERSBURG – An ordinance updating regulations for mobile vendors was sent back to the Municipal Planning Commission after concerns were raised by a local food truck owner and others. “I’m not against it completely by any means whatsoever,” Jimmy Avocado’s owner Jimmy Carrano said ...
CHARLESTON - More than four years after state, county and city leaders agreed to create a private non-profit foundation to distribute millions of dollars in opioid settlement dollars, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey announced a change in how future settlement dollars are ...
PARKERSBURG – Candidates set to appear on the November general election ballot for the District 12 House of Delegates seat said they are unconcerned about incumbent Del. Vernon Criss filing to run as a write-in. “I’m not worried about him winning,” said Charles Hartzog, the ...
PARKERSBURG – Wood County Commissioners said they will not approve a proposed 5% increase in property valuations to help make up for a budget shortfall discovered by the county assessor’s office. “The proposed 5% increase in valuations is dead," Commission President Blair Couch said ...
