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WHEELING — More than two dozen candidates for local, state and federal offices, and their representatives, congregated Thursday at the Wheeling Country Club for a candidates’ forum sponsored by the Ohio County Republican Executive Committee. Committee Vice Chair Bob Luchetti was pleased with the turnout of candidates and felt Thursday’s forum was an important one […]

City of Moundsville leaders are warning residents that a flooding situation similar to last week is expected to happen again Friday and Saturday. Areas that received water last week are anticipated to be flooded again. According to the city’s social media, the Ohio River is expected to crest at 41.6 feet on Saturday, making flooding […]

City of Wheeling Operations crews drop destroyed items left following last weeks flooding on the south end of Wheeling Island on Monday. Operations workers will be out on the island for the next few days collecting items. The city reminds those who don’t live on the Island or have business on the Island to avoid […]

MOUNDSVILLE — All eyes were on the sky at Grand Vue Park when the clouds cleared to give an uncovered view of the solar eclipse during the watch party hosted by the SMART Center, the Near Earth Object Foundation and Grand Vue Park. More than a thousand eclipse viewers gathered at Shelters 3, 4 and […]

Along with a dinner provided by Chef & Company and the opportunity to gaze into the cosmos with Robert and Libby Strong of SMART Centre Wheeling, there were plenty of reasons to celebrate at Crittenton Services’ Paint the Town Pink gala — most importantly the announcement of millions of dollars in grants to help the […]

WHEELING — By Friday evening, much of the Ohio River water that covered the streets of Wheeling Island had slinked back to more normal levels. The mud and debris, though, remained. So many of the Island’s residents began the long process of cleaning up after one of the city’s biggest floods in recent memory. The […]

WEST LIBERTY — West Liberty University President Tim Borchers sees a bright and successful future for the institute of higher learning that he currently helms. On Friday, as he was officially installed as WLU’s 38th president, he called upon the campus and community to help in making that future a reality. Borchers has been on […]

WHEELING — The Ohio County Emergency Operations Center was a hum of activity Thursday morning – and much of the work still had yet to come. City of Wheeling and Ohio County officials from multiple departments were hunched over laptop computers, on their cell phones or bouncing from room to room, keeping updated on the […]

Photo by Derek Redd Work to clean up the scene of a tractor-trailer accident on Interstate 470 is underway Monday afternoon. The rollover crash occurred aroun

As the rain continued to fall Tuesday morning in the Ohio Valley, Marshall County Emergency Management Director Tom Hart continued to keep an eye on local creeks for flooding concerns. Rain on Monday sent creek water onto the roads, closing some temporarily. Big Grave Creek, Middle Grave Creek, Little Grave Creek and Woodruff roads all […]