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Farm Bureau membership kickoff dinner is planned for Jan. 29

Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe and Noble County Farm Bureau will kick-off the 2026 membership campaign on Thursday, Jan. 29, at Mid-East Career Center, Buffalo Campus, Senecaville. This year from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Trevor Kirkpatrick, OFB director of health services, will be available to speak “one-on-one” about OFB Health Care Solutions. Adam Sharp, Ohio Farm Bureau executive vice president, will speak on “The Value of Farm Bureau Membership”. Doors will open at 4 p.m. to speak with Kirkpatrick, and the program will begin at 6 p.m. with a catered dinner. Farm Bureau members ...

Bengals’ Duke Tobin defends front office after disappointing season

CINCINNATI (AP) — Duke Tobin did make one change in the wake of a disappointing 6-11 season by the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals director of player personnel did an end of the season availability on Friday to discuss missing the postseason for the third straight season, instead of ...

Heating assistance available for Ohioans

The Ohio Department of Development and the Area Agency on Aging, Region 9, want to remind older Ohioans that assistance is available to help with their home energy bills. The Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) helps Ohioans at or below 175% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines for a household of up to eight members and 60% of State Median Income for a household of nine or more members to pay their heating bills. Applied directly to the customer’s utility or bulk fuel bill, the benefit can help manage heating costs. Older Ohioans may go to their local Area Agency on Aging office for ...

Wheeling Central runs away with win vs. Yellowjackets

WHEELING — The last time that the Wheeling Central Maroon Knights and Williamstown Yellowjackets boys basketball teams met, it was in the WVSSAC Class AA state championship. Friday on Coach Skip Prosser Court, it was two different iterations of the two teams, and it was once again the ...

Jefferson County historical museum display opens

STEUBENVILLE — When most people were home with their family on Christmas Day, Dan Mayhugh and his painter, Jeremy Grant, were up against a deadline, staining the dark cherry panels and trim pieces that would frame Jefferson County’s new historical museum display in the courthouse ...

Crime numbers continue dropping in Wheeling

WHEELING — The city of Wheeling saw its lowest crime rates in a decade in 2024 — and the numbers only improved in 2025. According to data released Thursday morning by the Wheeling Police Department, crime rates declined even further from 2024 to 2025, as did drug overdoses and overdose deaths, both of which saw a precipitous drop. Wheeling Police Chief Shawn Schwertfeger credited a broad effort in that improvement — from the department to its partners to the rest of the community — and said the mission is to make those numbers even better in 2026. “We’re very ...