PARKERSBURG – Members of City Council approved the first increase in municipal pool rates since 2019 on Tuesday, but most discussion at the meeting focused on other topics, including the ongoing sanitation stalemate. The first reading of an ordinance setting the rates for the pools at City ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A Parkersburg native is among eight recent graduates of West Virginia University to earn the Order of Augusta, the University’s most prestigious honor for academic excellence, leadership and service. The eight inductees were selected from the 52 WVU Foundation ...
PARKERSBURG – As guests gathered at the Wood County Resiliency Center this week to celebrate the 100th graduation from the county’s Juvenile Drug Court program, Family Court Judge Darren Tallman didn’t just tell them how the program works. He showed them. Before honoring the 99th, ...
PARKERSBURG – People from around the community gathered Wednesday in downtown Parkersburg to let the victims of sexual assault know that there are many out there who believe them and support them. Around 40 people gathered at Bicentennial Park to commemorate Denim Day to recognize and support victims of sexual violence as April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month in West Virginia, said Emily Larkins, executive director of the Family Crisis Intervention Center (FCIC) in Parkersburg. The campaign came as a result of protests against the Italian Parliament in the early 1990s when they ...
PARKERSBURG – As gas prices rise above $4 on Tuesday, local officials are looking at the possible effects and some are looking forward to how it might impact the upcoming summer tourism season. Gas stations in Wood and Washington counties saw prices ranging from $4.19 to $4.29 on ...
WHEELING – Family members, friends and constituents gathered in Wheeling Monday to pay their respects to former Congressman David B. McKinley, who was remembered not only for his decades of service to the community, but also for his love to his family and to his home state of West ...
