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BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

BELMONT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE At 5:46 p.m. Wednesday, a caller reported that a male had been filming her two young nieces while they were inside the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville. The complainant made security aware about the incident. The deputy advised the complainant that a call record would be on file. At 4:25 p.m. Wednesday, a deputy responded to an address on Riggs Road in Bellaire for a report of domestic trouble. A caller stated that her husband pushed her. Both parties were separated for the night. At 4:17 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to the Ohio Valley Mall ...

‘Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it’

Even as a youngster growing up in East Liverpool, Lou Holtz had a love for the game. “He’d call and say we got a team, we’ll play you Saturday morning,” Bob Duffy said. “He just loved football.” Holtz, a College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Notre Dame to its last national title in 1988, died Wednesday at age 89. Frank Wolfe, a 1953 graduate of East Liverpool High School who was a year ahead of Holtz, was the quarterback on Holtz’s first elementary team at St. Aloysius in East Liverpool. “Even in those days Lou had a football mind,” said Wolfe, who lives ...

Full-scale emergency drill at Neighborhood Hospital today

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Southeast/Southeast Central Ohio Healthcare Coalition is holding a coordinated full-scale emergency drill involving every hospital in Ohio's Regions 7 and 8 today. The drill will occur locally at Trinity St. Clairsville Neighborhood Hospital, beginning at 8 a.m. and ...

Commissioners approve $750,000 grant for Fairview water project

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Belmont County Board of Commissioners approved the grant agreement between it and the Ohio Department of Development for the Community Development Block Grant program $750,000 during Wednesday's regular meeting. The grant will aid in the extension of public water service ...

New Sheetz taking shape in Moundsville

MOUNDSVILLE – The new Moundsville Sheetz gas station is quickly taking shape along W.Va. 2 across from Walmart. A plaza of shops and a former restaurant building all were razed to make space for the new gas station. The steel structure for the building started going up not long after the ...

Sludge removal at Wheeling sewage plant underway

WHEELING – Work is underway to clean digesters at Wheeling's Water Pollution Control Plant – a project that is expected to improve nagging sewage odor issues that have wafted into the neighborhoods within sniffing distance of the facility in the south end of Center Wheeling. A ...