PARKERSBURG – Wood County Assessor John Kelly told commissioners Thursday he is optimistic the office can address a projected $357,000 shortfall within this fiscal year. “My hope is I won’t have to ask you for a dime,” he said. During Thursday’s County Commission meeting, Kelly and ...
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Board of Education voted Tuesday evening to delay action on a scaled-down renovation plan for Parkersburg High School’s Stadium Field, giving supporters eight weeks to seek additional funding for a larger project. The board first rejected a proposal to move ...
PARKERSBURG – Parkersburg City Council passed an ordinance on first reading that could lead to the closure of part of Seventh Street to make way for WVU Medicine Camden Clark’s East Tower project. Council unanimously passed the ordinance during Tuesday’s regular meeting. The ordinance ...
Twenty-five years have passed since Parkersburg native Mary Lou Hague was killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York City. Liza Adams, her mother, remembers everything about the day: speaking to her daughter as she tried to evacuate the building ...
BELLEVILLE — A Point Pleasant man was hospitalized after his vehicle was struck by a train Friday morning. According to a release from the Wood County Sheriff's Office, deputies, firefighters and emergency medical personnel were dispatched just after 9 a.m. Friday to a railroad crossing at ...
CHARLESTON – The first multi-state lawsuit led by West Virginia during Attorney General J.B. McCuskey's first month in office last year resulted in a victory Monday. In a 63-page memorandum decision and order, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York judge granted a ...
