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Author opens Children’s Book Week WEIRTON — West Virginia children’s author Anna Egan Smucker will open Children’s Book Week at the Mary H. Weir Public Library at 11 a.m. May 4. Smucker will read her children’s book Outside the Window about baby birds in the library’s activity room. Smucker, a Pushcart nominee, is the author of No Star Nights, her award-winning memoir about growing up in the steel town of Weirton in the 1950s. Published by Knopf, it won the International Reading Association Children’s Book Award. Other titles include A History of West Virginia, To Keep ...

Retired Air Force jet arrives at Union Local High School

MORRISTOWN — After nearly eight years of planning, a retired U.S. Air Force F-16 Thunderbird jet has arrived at Union Local High School. The jet will be displayed in front of the school after it is rebuilt by a crew from Worldwide Aircraft, whose employees delivered and assembled the ...

Sweet success: Chocolate extravaganza returns to Wheeling

WHEELING — If you’ve noticed your sweet tooth beginning to ache recently, it may be calling you to one of the sweetest events of the year — the 34th annual Chocolate Extravaganza. This year’s event is slated for 1-3 p.m. May 3 at Temple Shalom, 23 Bethany Pike, Wheeling. For the $20 ...

History in the Hills: A year of Anniversaries

This year is the year of anniversaries. Naturally, the one we are hearing most about is our nation’s 250th anniversary, which is certainly a cause for celebration. I hope to write about that in the coming months. Here locally, it is the 40th anniversary of the founding of Historic Fort Steuben, the 40th anniversary of the Steubenville Murals in downtown and the 20th anniversary of the Summer Concert Series at the fort. We certainly have a year of celebrations ahead. For me personally, it’s a special year as well, as it’s my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. They celebrated that ...

Sermons

• Cadiz Presbyterian Church: "Need a Lift?" • Cove Presbyterian Church: "Are We Devoted to One Another" • Finley Church: "The Essentiality of God's Word" • First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Weirton: "The Gate" • Harmony Church of Mingo Junction: "Joy in Difficult Times" • Memorial Baptist Church: "Whatever Happened to Shalom?" • St. Paul's Church: "Gateway to Heaven" • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church: "I Am the Good Shepherd" • Starkdale Presbyterian Church, Wintersville: "The Hour of Glory" • Two Ridges Presbyterian Church: "Don't Leave ...