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BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 11:39 p.m. Wednesday, an officer responded to the Pilot travel center on Belmont-Morristown Road for a report of a semi driver who was parked in a reserved parking area and was refusing to move. According to the officer, the driver would be on his way. At 10:03 p.m. Wednesday, a caller from Arman Hill Road in Powhatan Point reported damage being done to his mailbox by people putting in his water line. At 9:37 p.m. Wednesday, officers assisted the St. Clairsville Police on a traffic stop at Clark Road and Willow Grove Road in St. ...

Guilty verdict in Jefferson County shooting incident

STEUBENVILLE — A 43-year-old man found guilty of firing at Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies and other law enforcement personnel from his attic window two years ago will be sentenced Monday. Adam Coy Roberts, 616 state Route 151, was convicted Thursday of felonious assault with a ...

Students get good ‘START’ at Indian Creek Schools

WINTERSVILLE — Indian Creek Local School District’s START program has matched hundreds of students with mentors to help improve reading skills while engaging in learning activities, and the program has yielded great benefits for both sides. For more than a quarter of a century, the ...

Easterseals board names Redd chair, adds two new members

WHEELING — The Easterseals Rehabilitation Center board of directors named The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register managing editor Derek Redd to a two-year term as chairperson during its annual reorganization meeting in September. Redd succeeds Regional Economic Development ...

West Virginia funding for food banks during SNAP shutdown grows to $8.6M

CHARLESTON — With the federal government shutdown going into its second month and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits paused as of Saturday, Gov. Patrick Morrisey is directing more state funding to West Virginia’s largest food banks. In a press conference Friday afternoon at the Governor’s Reception Room at the State Capitol Building, Morrisey announced an additional $2.5 million was being sent to the state’s two largest food banks — Mountaineer Food Bank in Gassaway and Facing Hunger Foodbank in Huntington — to purchase food. Those organizations are also ...

Washington Lands Elementary School conducts annual pumpkin drop experiment

MOUNDSVILLE — Washington Lands Elementary School students had quite a few great pumpkins survive crash landings in their patch during the 11th annual Pumpkin Drop on Halloween. The students brought supplies from home they believed would cushion their pumpkin’s fall. They used old ...