NEFFS AMERICAN Legion Ladies Auxiliary Unit 77 will meet at 7 p.m. Monday to discuss new projects for the year. All members are asked to attend. BEGINNING SQUARE dance lessons by the Ohio Valley Promenaders at the Bellaire Public Library are slated to start at the end of January on Tuesdays ...

SMITHFIEILD TOWNSHIP Trustees will hold their yearly re-organizational meeting at 6 p.m. Jan. 2 at the Smithfield Building. SHADYSIDE LOCAL Board of Education’s public hearing regarding its budget is set for 10 a.m. Jan. 7 at the board office Shadyside Local Board of Education, 3890 Lincoln ...

Nellie Lojas Polivka is celebrating her 102nd birthday. She was born Aniela Lojas in Nixon Run, Martins Ferry, to John and Antonia Lojas on Jan. 12, 1918. She lived in farms located on Nixon Run, Glens Run and Scotch Ridge along with her parents and nine brothers and sisters: married names are ...

The new year is almost here! I don’t have any resolutions in mind yet for 2020, though there’s a few I probably should make. 2020 sounds like the distant future to me. Aren’t we supposed to have flying cars and floating houses by now? Something like from the Jetson’s cartoon? I guess ...

HANNIBAL — A River High School art student recently won an award from the Cleveland Clinic Expressions Art Program for her painting titled “Drowing in Opioids.” Aedyn Kraft, daughter of J.J. & Shirley Kraft, is an Art II student at River High School. The hospital’s program ...

ON DEC. 7, the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the 200 Big Band Club held a dance and honored World War II veterans along with all veterans at osiris Shrine in Wheeling. Two WWII veterans were present: John Callarik of Bridgeport, who served in the Army stationed in Europe, and Domenic ...