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PARKERSBURG Mayor Tom Joyce said Friday he wants to move ahead with a proposed $13 million activity and recreation center in City Park after a feasibility ....
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ebevins@newsandsentinel.com PARKERSBURG City Council will receive Mayor Tom Joyce’s proposed 2021-22 budget and consider an ordinance granting a B&O tax exemption for construction in newly annexed areas and for residential construction anywhere in Parkersburg. Joyce said the spending plan reflects areas of emphasis mentioned by council during a January workshop on priorities for the coming year and term. “There’s certainly adequate funding for continued demolition of problem properties,” along with street rehabilitation, he said. At the conclusion of Tuesday’s meeting, council will resolve into the Committee of the Whole for budget hearings set to begin on Monday, March 8, with council Vice President Sharon Kuhl presiding. ....
Edward E. Debalski Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals listen as Wayne County Republican Executive Committee attorney John Bryan makes his case. (Screen Capture) Wood County Sheriff’s K9 Drago won the vote for Protecting K9 Heroes’ K9 of the Year. (Photo Provided) Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Patricia Rucker said she supports new legislation to create education savings accounts. (Photo Provided) Kelly Huggins Parkersburg City Councilwoman Sharon Kuhl, right, passes copies of the 2020 Development Department report to Councilwoman Jessica Cottrille during Tuesday’s council meeting at the Municipal Building. (Photo by Evan Bevins) Members of Parkersburg City Council vote on the final reading of an ordinance establishing a Police Department internship program during Tuesday’s meeting at the Municipal Building. (Photo by Evan Bevins) ....
ebevins@newsandsentinel.com Parkersburg Municipal Planning Commission Vice President Eric Gumm, left, and President Charlie Matthews were re-elected to those positions by a unanimous vote during Friday’s meeting in Parkersburg City Council chambers at the Municipal Building. (Photo by Evan Bevins) PARKERSBURG The Municipal Planning Commission on Friday approved a request from the city to abandon an undeveloped portion of a street to facilitate adding land to Johnson T. Janes Nature Preserve and Conservation Park. The approximately 30-by-127.5-foot undeveloped portion of Foxhill Drive off Core Road is adjacent to five parcels comprising over half an acre of wooded land donated to the city about a year ago. ....