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Belmont County OPERS to meet Sept. 16 ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Chapter 79 of the Ohio Public Employee Retirees Inc. will hold its bimonthly meeting at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 16 at the Ohio Valley Mall Community Room. Use the mall entrance near Michaels. Guest speaker will be Roberta Raymond, co-chair of The Wall That Heals, a Vietnam Veterans Memorial replica and mobile education center. All retired Belmont County OPERS members are invited to attend. For more information, call 740-449-2280. Belmont County traffic impacts BELMONT COUNTY — The following are current road ...

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Thursday — 9:30 p.m. — A deputy responded to a hit-skip accident that occurred in the parking lot of Recon on National Road in Bridgeport, according to Martins Ferry Police radio traffic. The officer responded to an address on North Second Street in Martins Ferry, according to the report. The crash involved one vehicle registered in West Virginia and another registered in Ohio. There was property damage only. — 7:54 p.m. — A caller at the Ohio State Highway Patrol post on National Road in St. Clairsville wanted an officer to look at a car for a tracker. Units responded and ...

Bellaire community gathers to remember 9/11 victims

BELLAIRE – Bellaire Volunteer Fire Department honored the many citizens who died in the 9/11 tragedy 25 years ago Friday. The village honored the dead by hosting a ceremony at 34th Street from 8:30-11 a.m. The ceremony had a moment of silence for each exact time that the terrorist attacks ...

Wheeling ceremony calls for remembrance and unity after 9/11

WHEELING -- Ohio Valley residents were asked to remember the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, on the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, during the Community-Wide Sept. 11 Service of Remembrance at Wheeling Heritage Port on ...

Wall That Heals seeks local families to help bring tribute home

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – As Belmont County prepares to welcome The Wall That Heals from Oct. 1-4, the committee is asking the community to help make the historic tribute a deeply personal experience for local families. The Wall That Heals is a traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and ...

Lawsuits mount over Brooke locker room cameras

WELLSBURG – A total of nine individual lawsuits now have been filed on behalf of female student-athletes who utilized the girls locker rooms at Brooke High School since the start of the new school year. The complaints – filed in Brooke County Circuit Court – seek monetary damages for the students in an amount to be determined at trial, along with interest, court costs and attorney fees. Four of the young women are students at Brooke High School, while the other five are visiting students forced to use the girls locker room at Brooke County High School, according to information ...