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At 5:40 p.m. Monday, a deputy on a traffic stop on Mercer Road at Ayers Road in Colerain issued a warning to an Ohio motorist for driving left of center. At 10:35 a.m. Monday, a school resource officer at the Belmont Career Center in St. Clairsville requested a report number for a drug paraphernalia case. At 7:47 a.m. Monday, a caller from Almar Circle in St. Clairsville reported that someone broke into his vehicle overnight and took a pistol. A deputy responded, and information was taken for a breaking and entering report. At 7:03 a.m. Monday, a caller from an address on Olde ...

Library to open new archive

BELLAIRE — The Bellaire Public Library will be holding an open house to celebrate the dedication of its new Local History Center and Bellaire Room Archives from 1-4 p.m. Friday. The commemoration marks the completion of a project 10 years in the making. The public is invited to browse ...

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Special meeting set ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Board of Commissioners will hold a special meeting with the Belmont County Board of Developmental Disabilities and county Auditor Cindi Henry at 4 p.m. Thursday at the disabilities board office. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss that department’s budget. Personnel on agenda in St. C. ST. CLAIRSVILLE — City Council will hold a special meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Municipal Building, located at 100 N. Market St. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss personnel issues in the handbook. Legislation will be ...

Health tech blood drive on Oct. 28

BLOOMINGDALE-The health technologies program at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School is looking for volunteers to give the gift of life during an upcoming blood drive. The first of three campaigns will be held on Oct. 28 from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the health tech lab at the school, which is located at 1509 County Highway 22A in Bloomingdale. Students in the program will conduct registration and canteen services while medical personnel from the American Red Cross will coordinate the collection. Instructor Tammy Sismondo said more than 30 units have been collected in the past and ...

Family Returns To Warwood To Honor Vietnam Veteran

WHEELING — Pfc. Russell Frank McLaughlin answered the call of duty to his country in 1967, and just months later paid the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam. Nearly 58 years later, members of his family returned to the Warwood community they once called home to salute McLaughlin on Monday ...

Ohio Valley Newsliners:

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT At 11:46 p.m. Monday, an officer on a traffic stop on Interstate 470 west in St. Clairsville issued a warning to a Pennsylvania motorist for a brake light violation. At 11:31 p.m. Monday, a deputy on a traffic stop on 28th Street in Bellaire issued a warning to an Ohio motorist for a turn signal violation and a stop bar violation. At 11:05 p.m. Monday, a deputy on a traffic stop on 37th Street in Bellaire near Noble Street issued a warning to an Ohio motorist for a stop sign violation. At 9:31 p.m. Monday, a deputy on a traffic stop on ...