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WHEELING — As high school football players hit Wheeling Island Stadium’s turf today and Saturday, business owners across the Ohio Valley anticipate an increase in customers during the Super Six state championships. With no local teams participating this year, Ohio County Commissioner and Ohio County Development Authority President Randy Wharton views the tournament as a […]

WHEELING — The decision is now up to the West Virginia Department of Education as the consolidated Warwood School is one step closer to becoming separate elementary and middle schools. Interim Principal Jim Rowing and Interim Vice Principal Robert Demarest were present as Ohio County Schools Superintendent Kim Miller updated board of education members this […]

WHEELING — The idea of a free health clinic at Madison Elementary School through a partnership with WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital is again being discussed by school officials. Ohio County Board of Education members got an update Tuesday night on where the project stands. A proposed memorandum of understanding would establish the clinic at Madison […]

Members of the Wheeling Park Iron Patriots Mk. III robotics team were at the Soup Kitchen of Greater Wheeling on Wednesday to help out with the organization’s Just for Kidz Thanksgiving meal. Pictured are, from left, freshman James Maclay, freshman Mya White, freshman Emma McNickle, freshman Josh Hess, junior Hayden Uhrig and Becky Shilling-Rodocker, executive […]

WHEELING — Ideal Provisions’ smoker has been rolling day and night this week to provide over 300 Thanksgiving meals for those in need across the Ohio Valley. Setting up their tent at Heritage Port on Tuesday afternoon, the food truck’s owner and volunteers were ready to serve the line of over 20 people who braved […]

Luke Hladek, Wheeling Country Day School Assistant Head of School for Culture and Advancement, gets into the Thanksgiving holiday spirit, donning a turkey mask during the annual WCDS staff-versus-alumni Turkey Ball kickball game Monday at the main campus. (Photo by Derek Redd)

WHEELING ­- When Jamie Bordas looks across the landscape, he sees something lacking in the world today ­ love. People, he said, don’t ask themselves enough every day how they can love more and how they can better show love. Yet a place where love is always in abundant supply, he continued, was the United […]

WHEELING — Orchard Park Hospital, a recently opened acute child and adolescent psychiatric care facility, remains open despite what the hospital termed “a small number of employees” leaving the facility. In a statement Friday evening, the hospital said it is open, staffed with professionals, and continues to treat patients while training incoming employees. The hospital […]

WHEELING — The best of the best of the businesses that keep the Ohio Valley running were recognized on Wednesday night by a vote of local newspaper readers. Making up the Best of the Ohio Valley, businesses in over 150 different categories, from best restaurant to barber shop, were awarded for their service to the […]

WHEELING — A valuable scholarship established to increase the number of teachers in areas of need across West Virginia is no longer being funded, and state officials are no longer accepting applicants. Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission, confirmed this while addressing the West Virginia Legislature’s Joint Standing Commission on Education […]