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Mar 12, 2021 DEMONSTRATING KINDNESS — As an act of kindness in showing gratitude to essential workers, members of the Cross Creek Tomahawks 4-H Club recently took hoagies, homemade cookies, drinks and snacks to the Pottery Addition Volunteer Fire Department. Involved in the presentation were, front row, from left, Mary Bender, department Chief Andrew Hayes and Charles Barr; and back, Ava Aftanas, Bryden Kittle and Avery Kittle. -- Contributed STEUBENVILLE — The Jefferson County 4-H progr...

WOOSTER  Virginia Blackwell wanted to be a teacher and she wanted to be a teacher in her hometown. The opportunity finally arrived in 1963, almost 20 years after Blackwell earned her degree from West Virginia State College, an all-Black school at that time. Wooster City Schools hired her as a special education teacher, making her the first Black teacher in the district’s history. “She was just glad she got to teach… She didn’t look at it as a fight but her right,” said Carolyn Huff...