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ebevins@newsandsentinel.com PARKERSBURG — Like many other designated recipients, health centers in the region are awaiting further instructions before making plans for the money allotted to them in the American Rescue Plan. “A lot of that’s up in the air,” Minnie Hamilton Health System CEO Steve Whited said. “There’s going to be stipulations placed upon this, so once it’s awarded, we have to submit a budget.” A federally qualified health center in Calhoun County that also serves neighboring Gilmer County, Minnie Hamilton is in line for $2.4 million from the American Rescue Pla...

editorial@newsandsentinel.com CHARLESTON — Active cases of the COVID-19 virus dropped by 20 in Wood County in the 24-hour period from Tuesday to Wednesday morning, according to the latest statistics from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. Active cases in Wood County were at 146 as of Wednesday morning, down from 166 on Tuesday. Active cases across the state over the 24-hour period slightly increased from 6,263 to 6,278. Peaking the first week of January at more than 29,000 people, active cases were on a downward trend until two weeks ago when it reached a recent lo...

ebevins@newsandsentinel.com President Joe Biden visits Smith Flooring, Inc., in Chester, Pa., Tuesday. The president is joined by owners Kristin Smith and James Smith. (AP Photo) PARKERSBURG — City and county leaders throughout West Virginia are waiting to see how much COVID-19-relief money they’ll receive, as well as how soon it will arrive and how it can be used. Besides individual stimulus checks for most Americans and money for broadband, education, vaccine support, child care and more, the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan approved last week by Congress includes money to be administ...

From staff reports CHARLESTON — Two Wood County residents and one Jackson County resident were among the COVID deaths, reported Tuesday by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The DHHR has confirmed the deaths of a 79-year-old female from Wood County, an 80-year-old male from Wood County and an 81-year-old male from Jackson County. The DHHR also confirmed the deaths of a 64-year-old female from Lincoln County, a 68-year-old female from Logan County, an 85-year-old male from Boone County, a 53-year-old male from Lincoln County, a 53-year-old female from Cabell County, ...

ebevins@newsandsentinel.com Parkersburg Municipal Building maintenance worker Westley Lockhart cleaned the handles of the doors to City Council chambers on March 13, 2020, as officials in Parkersburg and other municipalities were grappling with how to respond to the burgeoning pandemic. (File Photo) The parking lot at Grand Central Mall in Vienna was mostly empty on April 10, 2020,more than two weeks after it temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (File Photo) Parkersburg City Council met in its chambers for the first time in more than a month on June 2, 2020, and approv...