STEUBENVILLE — Only 247 students remain in contention for the Scripps National Spelling Bee title and Francis Kissinger of Steubenville is among them. “It feels pretty good,” Kissinger said during a break from preparing for the 101st annual bee. “It can be overwhelming. Sometimes it ...
TORONTO — A search by a German historian led to a discovery that touched the lives of a Toronto man and his family. Last fall, Toronto’s Jim Rinaldo said that, in advance of Memorial Day, the daughter of a cousin who lives in Columbus received a call from Torben Haunhost, a historian in ...
CHESTER – A new mural underway in Chester will involve members of the community while paying tribute to its past. The Montani Outreach Movement was formed as a nonprofit organization in 2023 by area residents Cara McMahan, Lacey Cline, Megan Eckleberry, Brittany Budney and Payden Wells, ...
WELLSBURG – Wellsburg is known for a large Independence Day celebration, and this year organizers hope to make the festivities even bigger in honor of the nation’s semiquincentennial. “We have a whole week of events lined up,” said Dan Otto, who along with Megan Rogerson, Tom ...
WHEELING – Wheeling resident Jim Temple enlisted in the Army at 17 years old as a way to make a life of his own. “I volunteered in 1992 before I graduated from high school. I came from a suppressed family background. I needed to find a way to make my own way in life,” he said. The ...
Ohio’s job market appears to be resilient in the face of higher gasoline prices, a conflict in Iran and other potentially disruptive events across the world. Ohio's unemployment rate dropped in April to 3.9%, a 0.2 percentage point fall from March’s 4.1 %, according to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The number of nonagricultural jobs increased by 7.800, going from 5.679 million in March to 5.687 in April. There were gains in manufacturing jobs and construction, offsetting drops in mining and logging, according to the state’s latest numbers. The private service ...
