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Annual Santa’s Spirit Sprint provides holiday cheer

Local News

BARNESVILLE — As the holiday season continues, it’s time to prepare for the annual Santa’s Spirit Sprint 5K and 1-mile Run and Walk on Dec. 6. Both races will begin and end at The Rock gymnasium, located at 440 Watt Ave. in Barnesville. The 1-mile race starts at 2 p.m., while the 5K ...

Street light upgrades in Wheeling are welcomed by leaders

Community

WHEELING — The future of Wheeling is already looking brighter in a number of areas throughout town, as AEP continues to upgrade street lights with LED lights. In recent months, members of Wheeling City Council had expressed frustration with the maintenance of street lights in certain areas ...

Uncertainty prevails as Wheeling’s exempted homeless camp closes

Local News

WHEELING — Volunteers scrambled to help residents of Wheeling’s exempted homeless encampment pack up valuables Monday as the city’s 5 p.m deadline for the camp’s closure approached. Representatives of Street MOMs, House of Hagar and other local social service agencies brought ...

Billions spent on Black Friday despite economic uncertainty

Local News

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year’s holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday — spending billions of dollars both in stores and online. Adobe Analytics, which tracks e-commerce, said U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 ...

Small Business Saturday sends shoppers flocking to stores

Community

WHEELING — Throngs of shoppers spent Saturday making sure at least part of their holiday spending stayed local, as Small Business Saturday brought them out in droves to locally owned stores. Customers lined the sidewalks of Wheeling’s Centre Market, an epicenter of local shops selling ...

Defect notices signal next phase in $600M settlement

Local News

EAST PALESTINE — With the property damage payments expected to begin in early 2026 now that the appeals of the final approval of the $600 million settlement between class members and Norfolk Southern has been dismissed, residents are receiving correspondence from the new settlement ...