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Oglebay Park Flips Switch On Holiday Lights, $2 Million Investment in Event

WHEELING – Santa – with some help from WesBanco – flipped the switch on Oglebay Park's 42nd Annual Festival of Lights holiday celebration Thursday night and the official beginning of the Christmas season in the Ohio Valley. The move to light up the night also kicked off the Wheeling ...

Story and Video: Griffin found guilty on all charges in double-murder trial

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Andrew Isaac Griffin was found guilty by a Belmont County jury Wednesday of murdering his former Salsa Joe’s business partner Thomas Strussion and Strussion’s wife Angela Strussion and setting fire to their Trails End Drive home near Belmont on September, 21, ...

Midterm election turnout high, but not the highest locally

WHEELING – All four local counties in East Ohio had voter turnout exceeding 50% in this week’s election – but they were all still below Ohio’s statewide turnout rate of 58.1%. In West Virginia, the overall turnout was 38.33%. Ohio, Hancock and Marshall counties exceeded that number, ...

Kirkwood Heights Resident Wants Property Detached From Bridgeport

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — A Bridgeport resident said he and a few other property owners want to be part of Pease Township instead of the village. During a Belmont County Commission meeting Wednesday, Kirkwood Heights Road resident Randy Becker said he and four other residents are petitioning the ...

Local Briefs for Nov. 5

Union Local Board Meeting Nov. 19 The Union Local School District Board of Education will hold its Regular Board Meeting on Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM. This meeting will be held in the High School Learning Center. Board of Health to meet Monday The Belmont County Board of Health will conduct its regular board meeting on: Monday November 9th, 2026 @ 8:00 a.m. at the Belmont County EMA Building Bannock Rd., on SR#331, St. Clairsville, Ohio. Board of Developmental Disabilities meets Nov. 19 St. Clairsville – The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Belmont County Board ...