WHEELING – It has been a quarter-century and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on America are truly history. The events are being discussed in history classes, even though there are now history teachers in school who weren’t born before Sept. 11, or were too young to be cognizant of the ...
WHEELING — Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks via airliners on New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — and many Ohio Valley residents are likely remembering what they were doing at that moment and how it impacted them then and still today. Bridgeport resident Larry Barnes, commander of American Legion Post 159, said on 9/11 he was working for a company, Shawn, Stone & Webster, that did maintenance on nuclear power plants on the East Coast. He was working at a plant just 30 ...
LANSING — Belmont County Republican commissioner candidate Dominic DeFelice held a meet-the-candidate event Thursday. Family, friends and potential voters spent Thursday evening at Vino di Piccin Winery to meet DeFelice and hear what he stands for ahead of the November ...
The first remembrance ceremony for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that Rabbi Joshua Lief of Wheeling's Temple Shalom was part of came one year after those attacks in 2002. He was still in the seminary as a student rabbi, with a small congregation in Lafayette, Louisiana, as his student ...
WHEELING — It has been 25 years since Sheli Bernstein-Goff, a Wheeling-based clinical therapist who specializes in critical stress management, helped first responders in New York City just days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Bernstein-Goff was a volunteer with Green Cross, a ...
WOODSFIELD -- A juvenile was killed and three others were injured Tuesday evening in a single-vehicle crash in Monroe County that authorities say may have involved alcohol or drug impairment. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the crash occurred at about 5:15 p.m. on Township Road 350, also known as Wolf Pen Road, in Center Township. According to the patrol, Britney N. Timberman, 39, of Woodsfield was driving a 2006 Honda Accord southbound when she failed to maintain control. The vehicle traveled off the left side of the road, struck an embankment and overturned. A juvenile passenger ...
