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New WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Highlands clinic opens

TRIADELPHIA – WVU Medicine officials and clinicians celebrated the opening of the new WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute Highlands Clinic on Friday. On hand for the event were Douglass Harrison, president and CEO of WVU Medicine North Region, and Dr. David Watson, vice chairman of the ...

Streets department uses bulldozers to remove snow from city sidewalks

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – As what’s starting to feel like a never-ending winter continues, the St. Clairsville Streets Department is trying to keep up with the excessive snow that 2026 has already brought into the county. Street superintendent Darim Pytlak said that his crew has been removing ...

FIRE ON WARWOOD TERRACE

Several units from the Wheeling Fire Department responded to a structure fire in a residential neighborhood around 7:30 p.m. Friday night on Warwood Terrace. Officials called for city crews to salt the narrow road leading to the hilltop neighborhood in order to navigate fire engines to the ...

Cleanup, parking changes discussed by council

MARTINS FERRY — Martins Ferry officials are launching several initiatives aimed at improving safety and reducing blight throughout the city, Safety Director and Code Administrator Melissa Yeso told City Council. Yeso said properties with excessive trash and long-standing maintenance issues ...

Bill to ban high school NIL now in Ohio House

A little more than a month after Ohio high schools voted to let athletes be paid for their name, image and likeness, two lawmakers want to stop it. Reps. Adam Bird, R-New Richmond, and Mike Odioso, R-Green Township, introduced legislation that bans high school and middle school ...

Theft persists at former hospital as ownership remains unresolved

MARTINS FERRY – Recent theft at former East Ohio Regional Hospital is leading Police Chief Vincent West to ask the public for assistance. While officers were recently patrolling the area, they discovered the hospital had multiple unlocked doors. “That place is huge, so they walked ...