Following sports used to mean checking a local newspaper, tuning into a scheduled broadcast, then talking about the result with friends. Today, your routine can move across several digital services within minutes, where you can read a local report, check a live score, watch a replay, follow a ...
Dr. Stanley Zaslau joined Reynolds Memorial Hospital a little over a year ago with the mission of creating a dedicated urology department at the hospital. He had previously spent 25 years of his career at Ruby Memorial Hospital, serving as chief of urology and then founding chair of the ...
Picture a Saturday morning in downtown St. Clairsville. A woman flips the sign on her café door from "Closed" to "Open," starts the espresso machine, and greets the first regulars by name before they even reach the counter. Scenes like this play out across the Ohio Valley every week, from family-run diners in Martins Ferry to boutique coffee shops near Wheeling. Behind a growing share of these counters, kitchens, and dining rooms are women who decided to bet on themselves. Their stories say a lot about how hospitality gets done right, and they echo similar ventures far beyond Belmont ...
For years, the assumption has been simple: businesses in smaller regional markets face steeper odds than their counterparts in major metropolitan areas. Limited capital, thinner customer bases, and less access to venture funding supposedly stack the deck against places like the Ohio Valley. That framing gets repeated so often it rarely gets questioned. But a closer look at recent data tells a more complicated story. Ohio's small-business sector isn't just holding steady — it's expanding at a pace that outstrips many assumptions built into the "big city advantage" narrative. Growth ...
Warm evenings across the Ohio Valley used to mean porch conversations, ballgames, and drive-in dinners. Increasingly, they mean something quieter: a glowing screen, a delivery notification, and a living room that doubles as the night's main event. Local residents are folding streaming platforms and on-demand apps into their summer routines at a pace that's reshaping how neighborhoods spend their free hours. This isn't a niche habit anymore. It reflects a broader national pattern that's landed squarely in eastern Ohio and the surrounding river communities, where mobile apps now compete ...
Shop owners along Main Street in Martins Ferry and St. Clairsville say their registers are ringing more often these days, just not for bigger amounts. Coffee runs, quick lunches, small hardware fixes, and modest service visits are becoming the norm rather than occasional splurges. It's a pattern local business owners have started to talk about openly, and it appears to reflect something larger than just a slow season. Across the Ohio River Valley, this shift toward smaller, more frequent transactions seems tied to broader financial caution rather than any single local factor. ...
