CADIZ — Two villages in the county have secured more than $900,000 in grant funding for infrastructure improvement projects through the Community Development Block Grant program. The Harrison County Board of Commissioners signed two separate agreements Wednesday morning — one for the ...
By ROBERT A. DEFRANK Times Leader Staff Writer MARTINS FERRY — Student athletes at Martins Ferry City Schools District will be following the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s standards rather than maintaining a set grade point average if they want to play sports. On Tuesday’s ...
CADIZ — The Harrison County Board of Commissioners are hoping to settle a potential legal matter with the Harrison County Community Improvement Corporation. Earlier this year, commissioners hired Roetzel and Andress LPA to provide legal services on behalf of the board pertaining to an ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said some new transportation options will be available soon for people wishing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. “East Ohio Regional Transportation got a grant from (the Ohio Department of Transportation) and ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — To mark National Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Belmont County Board of Commissioners heard from Department of Job and Family Services Director Jeff Felton Wednesday, who spoke about his staff’s work with area children in need. Talk concerned the needs of Belmont ...
BRIDGEPORT — Traffic on Ohio 7 South near the village of Bridgeport was delayed intermittently throughout the day Tuesday as demolition crews with Swank Construction removed large steel bridge beams from the eastbound side of Interstate 70 as part of the on-going $215 million I-70 Bridges ...
Robert Alan “Bob” Kacsmar, 75, of St. Clairsville, Ohio died April 9, 2021. He was born July 18, 1945 in Maynard, Ohio, a son of the late Michael J. Kacsmar and Mary Vesely Kacsmar. Bob was a retired accountant from Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel and a U.S. Army veteran. He was an active ...
SHADYSIDE — Jefferson Elementary School and numerous nearby homes were evacuated Tuesday morning following a gas line fire. A homeowner performing excavation work outside their home struck a gas line around 10 a.m. on Kennedy Lane, according to Shadyside Fire Chief David Lenz. As a result, ...
BRIDGEPORT — The village of Bridgeport is looking to fill two open positions after a council member submitted his letter of resignation and the fiscal officer’s last day is set for late June. After nearly four years on council, Councilman David Rice submitted his letter of resignation ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Madoff, the infamous architect of an epic securities swindle that burned thousands of investors, outfoxed regulators and earned him a 150-year prison term, died behind bars early Wednesday. He was 82. Madoff's death at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North ...
COLUMBUS — During his Tuesday press conference, Gov. Mike DeWine addressed the pause in the administering of the Johnson and Johnson version of the COVID-19 vaccine, as directed by the Center for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration. DeWine said there have so far been six ...
CADIZ — A Litchfield man was arrested Tuesday morning on multiple drug charges after a brief pursuit by law enforcement. James Hicks, 29, of 4355 Vandemark Rd., Litchfield was taken to the Harrison County Jail on various charges including possession of methamphetamine and drug instruments. ...
BELLAIRE — Belmont County residents aged 16 and older can get vaccinated next week at Bellaire High School. During Monday’s Bellaire Local School Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Darren Jenkins announced the high school will host an open coronavirus vaccine clinic April 21 ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Health Department board is anticipating vaccinating college students this week against the COVID-19 pandemic, and will approach the county commissioners about the possibility of a new and bigger headquarters in the future. Board member Joel Braido ...
CADIZ — Residents will have multiple opportunities to dispose of unwanted or unused prescription medications this month in Harrison County. National Drug Take Back Day is coming to the county with numerous dates set at pharmacies in Cadiz and Scio. Sheriff Joe Myers made the ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE -- Employment opportunities are available in Belmont County, but the search for employees is a problem according to Mike Schlanz, workforce supervisor of Ohio Means Jobs in Belmont County. Schlanz updated the Belmont County Board of Commissioners on activities of the Ohio Means ...
BELMONT -- Village Council decided to discard an ordinance aimed at abatement of hazardous buildings in the village, opting instead to use the Ohio Revised Code to go after property owners who allow structures to deteriorate and become unsafe. At the request of Mayor Ron Woods and council, ...
WHEELING -- Professionals from around the tri-state area gathered at Oglebay Resort recently to learn about corporate facility location trends in the Appalachian Basin and Ohio River corridor. The conference was attended virtually by others located across the United States. The Appalachian ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Sunday described a blackout at its underground Natanz atomic facility an act of “nuclear terrorism,” raising regional tensions as world powers and Tehran continue to negotiate over its tattered nuclear deal. While there was no immediate claim of ...
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It was supposed to be a unifying weekend for a Republican Party at war with itself over former President Donald Trump’s divisive leadership. But Trump himself shattered two days of relative peace in his closing remarks to the GOP’s top donors when he insulted the ...