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TRIADELPHIA — The Highlands Development property — when it was mostly a barren field in tax year 2005 — brought in just $3,958 in revenue to Ohio County Schools. But what a difference 18 years, a Cabela’s, a Walmart, a Target, a J.C. Penney, a Menards and many other stores make. For 2023, it is […]
jking@theintelligencer.net Photo by Joselyn King Ohio County Commissioner Don Nickerson, left, and Commission President Randy Wharton, listen to concerns during Tuesday's commission meeting. WHEELING — Ohio County commissioners made changes to the Ohio County Development Authority Board Tuesday night, replacing two members and appointing two others to take their places. One of those removed, though, said she was unaware she was being replaced. OCDA Vice President Nancy Weeks — a member since the OCDA was formed in 2007 — was the first removal from the board. She will be replaced by Del...
Apr 29, 2021 More than a year after the pandemic changed how everything in our lives operates — including government — it continues to concern us that some local governments fail to adequately host meetings accessible to the public. Two recent examples come to mind. First was a meeting of St. Clairsville City Council from earlier this month. The council there has been hosting meetings via conference call, with no public participation other than to listen in. Not only was the public shut out from having a voice in those meetings, but council members voted, on at least one occasions we’...
eayres@theintelligencer.net WEST LIBERTY — West Liberty University’s Board of Governors on Wednesday announced its support of its President W. Franklin Evans, who joined two other local college presidents last month in a public stance against the city of Wheeling’s effort to bring another college to town. The statement released Wednesday aligns WLU’s board with the boards from Wheeling University and West Virginia Northern Community College, which also issued public statements in support of their presidents following an explosive council meeting on March 16. Wheeling city leaders, in ...
For The Times Leader TRIADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania resident recently came to Howard’s Diamond Center at The Highlands to purchase a 4-carat diamond ring. He paid a lower sales tax rate than he would have in an Allegheny County neighborhood. The ring cost more than $18,000. The current West Virginia consumer sales tax is 6 percent, adding about another $1,100 to the cost. In Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, an additional 1 percent is added to the state’s base tax rate of 6 percent, bringing the tax to 7 percent. Sales tax on the same ring would have been approximately $1,300 there, so ...