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Live online classes today at WPHS

WHEELING — Wheeling Park High School students are learning remotely this week, and today and Friday their classes will be live-streamed so they can interact with teachers. Students will be sent links to log in and join their class for live instruction. WPHS will be following its two-hour delay class schedule plan, with first period starting at 9:15 a.m. Ohio County Schools is classified as orange this week on the West Virginia Department of Education’s COVID-19 reporting map. This means all instruction must be remote through the week, while students are provided with online ...

WVNCC lot improvements to compliment streetscape

WHEELING — Downtown parking lots operated by West Virginia Northern Community College are being upgraded with landscaping and architectural designs that will complement the aesthetics of the coming $25 million Wheeling Streetscape Project, which is scheduled to begin next spring. Members ...

Bridgeport residents decline to pass levies

BRIDGEPORT — Bridgeport village voters decined to pass three proposed levies Tuesday. The village had a police levy and two renewal levies for operating expenses listed on the general election ballot, all three of which were voted down. Results for all three levies were within a few dozen votes. The police levy was voted down 364-317 votes, according to unofficial results from the Belmont County Board of Elections. The 5-mill continuing measure was a first-time proposed police levy and would have helped keep the department funded. The department, which covers both Bridgeport and ...

Ferry police, fire levies approved

MARTINS FERRY —Voters in the city of Martins Ferry decided to renew two separate tax levies — one that helps the police department and another for the volunteer fire department. In a 1,373-1,036 decision, voters approved renewing a 5-mill tax levy for five years for the Martins Ferry Police Department, according to unofficial totals from the Belmont County Board of Elections. The tax levy generates about $300,000 a year for the department, which serves the city of about 6,596 residents. When the levy was first pitched to voters, city officials said the money generated from the ...

Two incumbent Monroe commissioners unseated

WOODSFIELD — Two of Monroe County’s incumbent commissioners were unseated Tuesday with the seats to be filled by two Republicans. In one commission seat race, Republican Diane Burkhart defeated incumbent Commissioner Carl Davis, a Democrat, in the general election. Burkart won with 4,703 votes to Davis’ 2,202 votes, according to unofficial totals released by the Monroe County Board of Elections Burkart will become the first female Republican commissioner in Monroe County history. She is a lifelong resident of the county and is very excited to fill her new seat, she ...

Voters pick new auditor and recorder in Belmont County

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — Belmont County will go into 2021 with a new auditor and recorder. Republicans Cindi Henry and Jason Garczyk were victorious Tuesday, when voters elected GOP candidates in every contested race in the county. Henry will become auditor, while Garczyk will be the recorder. Garczyk got 19,785 votes to Democrat contender Cory DelGuzzo’s 11,544 votes in the contest for the seat of retiring Recorder Mary Catherine Nixon, who has held the post for 24 years. Henry unseated incumbent Auditor Anthony Rocchio with 17,573 votes to his 13,748 votes, both according to ...