WHEELING – Local students from across the region put their skills to the test during the Wheeling Ironworkers Local 549 Joint Apprenticeship Training Program welding competition Wednesday at the Ironworkers hall, 2350 Main St., Wheeling. Stephen Sipos, apprenticeship coordinator for ...
WINTERSVILLE - Students in the natural resources pathway at Indian Creek High School are continuing their quest to help the environment through the Bags to Benches program. Now in its second year, the school’s FFA program that is affiliated with the pathway has partnered with the ...
WHEELING – Helping Heroes, a local organization dedicated to helping homeless veterans, is slated to host its annual fundraiser, A Night To Remember, on May 8 at Wheeling Park’s skating rink. Jeremy Harrison, co-founder of Helping Heroes, said the steak fry is slated from 5:30-10 p.m. ...
BLOOMINGDALE - A familiar face will be roaming the hallways of Jefferson County Joint Vocational School once again as Andy Long returns this August. Long, who previously served as a teacher and administrator at the site, will fill the new dean of students position when he begins on Aug. 1. He received a two-year contract during the April 21 JVS school board meeting and will oversee a combination of assistant principal and guidance duties while working with Principal Heather Hoover. JVS Superintendent Ted Gorman said Long’s history with the school made him the perfect choice. “The ...
Three people have been sentenced in Ohio County Circuit Court following convictions on felony drug charges involving fentanyl and other controlled substances, according to the Ohio County Prosecutor's Office. On April 8, Kimberly Straight, 42, of Wheeling, was convicted of the felony offense of possession with intent to deliver fentanyl. Straight was arrested on June 6, 2025, after Wheeling Police observed two individuals traveling the wrong way on a one-way street before continuing in the incorrect lane of Chapline Street. During the encounter, Straight was found in possession of 25 ...
BRIDGEPORT — The young artists of Bridgeport Exempted Village School District invite the community to the Bridgeport Fine Arts Festival noon to 4 p.m. Saturday in the cafetorium. Students at Bridgeport High School will present their artwork for sale alongside local artists. Art teacher ...
