Ashlea Minch News Today

WHEELING – Woodsdale Elementary School students are reading books, and their efforts are bringing a book vending machine to the school. The school’s student council had a goal of raising $7,000 needed for the book vending machine, and members organized a school-wide read-a-thon to bring in the money. The members also went out to local […]

WHEELING — The failure Thursday by the Ohio County Board of Education to name a new board member to replace the late Grace Norton has led to a turbulent back-and-forth among the county’s online community over the past few days, with interested parties delving into just where potential candidates live — or claim they live […]

File Photo For the second consecutive year, there will not be a run through Woodsdale to benefit the Woodsdale Elementary School playground. The school has again canceled its Let’s Play 5K run through the neighborhood that happens in the spring due to COVID concerns, but it is likely to return next year to raise money for the playground’s maintenance, according to Principal Ashlea Minch. Work to build the playground is now complete, and there isn’t a need for additional fundraising at thi...

School buses are seen parked in this undated file photo. WHEELING — Students, parents and educators in Ohio County Schools all celebrated the return to “normalcy” and a five-day school week on Monday. It has been just over a year since students first began remote learning from home, and later returned to their classrooms in split shifts two days a week. Recent weeks have seen in-person school for all students on Mondays and Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays, with Wednesdays a remote day ...

jking@theintelligencer.net Photo by Alan Olson – Jenny Herbak’s first grade class at Glen Dale Elementary School settles in for class Tuesday morning. WHEELING — Both students and teachers were all smiles Tuesday when students returned to the classroom around West Virginia, some for the first time in months. Ohio and Marshall county schools welcomed back the first half of their elementary and middle school students Tuesday. In Ohio County, those in Group B returned for in-person cl...