ebevins@newsandsentinel.com Work is underway on projects at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport. The installation of LED lighting for the main runway will extend through July. (Photo by Candice Black) Brent Null teaches a class on theater to students in the Artsbridge Arts Encounter program. This year’s program will be held at the schools rather than downtown venues. (Photo Provided) Middle school students create art in the Artsbridge Arts Encounter program. (Photo Provided) James W. Cunningham Parkersburg Development Projects Administrator Ryan Barber speaks during Tuesday’s City Council Finance Committee meeting at the Municipal Building as City Clerk Connie Shaffer takes notes. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
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Work is underway on projects at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport. The installation of LED lighting for the main runway will extend through July. (Photo by Candice Black)
WILLIAMSTOWN Airport numbers are starting to come back from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the discussion at Tuesday’s meeting of the Wood County Airport Authority.
For March, there were 339 enplanements, 87 more than last year. Numbers are about what they were in 2019, according to Glen Kelly, manager of the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport.
“(It’s a) very positive trend. They’ve enplaned 110 in the past three days. We’re starting to see it come back,” Kelly said.
WILLIAMSTOWN The Transportation Security Administration is enforcing a new mask mandate at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport. Airport Manager Glen Kel
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WILLIAMSTOWN The Transportation Security Administration is enforcing a new mask mandate at the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport.
Airport Manager Glen Kelly was informed of the change Monday evening which involves everyone on airport property wearing a mask at all times and in-between bites and sips while eating or drinking.
“This is a giant expansion. They can hold me directly responsible. If they fail to do so, I’m supposed to call law enforcement and do an incident report,” Kelly said.
TSA is enforcing the new protocol in support of President Joe Biden’s federal mask mandate by executive order. The mandate extends not only to the TSA areas of the airport, but the entire property including privately rented hangers.
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PARKERSBURG The deadline to apply for assistance from Parkersburg’s COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fund program has been extended to March 31.
Parkersburg’s administration and City Council established the program using $300,000 in funding provided by the C.A.R.E.S. Act through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
After the initial deadline in October, a total of 16 small businesses have been or are in the process of being awarded $111,188 in short-term working capital, according to a release from the city. That leaves a program fund balance of $188,444.
The program provides money to help businesses retain and create jobs for low- to moderate-income workers adversely impacted by the pandemic, including payment of rent, loans, wages, taxes and normal benefits for employees and normal operating costs and expenses.