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Labor Day offers chance to reflect

Labor Day is traditionally the end of the summer vacation season. Children are back in school for the long haul now. Football has resumed. The daylight hours are noticeably shorter. Thus, most take the day as a good day off for one last picnic, one last swim, one last day out in the backyard with the family while summer’s warmth is still in the air. But it is more. Labor leader Samuel Gompers sums up what will be celebrated Monday: “All other holidays are in a more-or-less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for ...

Toronto shines with annual arts festival

When the Toronto Art Festival opens its two-day run at 10 a.m. Saturday, it will mark the renewal of a Labor Day Weekend tradition that stretches back to the late 1970s. It once again will offer residents from throughout the Tri-State Area the chance to enjoy a variety of music, arts and crafts, food and fun. Presented by Focus in Toronto, the 47th-annual festival, which will run until 6 p.m. Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, will be centered around the Gazebo Commons area of North Third and Main streets in the heart of the city and include the areas around the First ...

Tentative deal good for county

There have been a lot of changes at the tract of land that sits at 4000 Sunset Boulevard as the decades have passed. Residents of the region have watched during the past 60 years as the 84-acre site in Steubenville’s West End has gone from holding the abandoned Jefferson County Infirmary to the modern Eastern Gateway Community College, which brought affordable, high-quality higher education and job training to the region. Now, it appears the property is nearing another transformation, one that likely will bring a new educational opportunity to the community while opening a large ...

Don’t drive drunk, don’t drive high

“If you feel different, you drive different. Drive high, get a DUI.” That’s the theme of an effort by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to help local law enforcement be highly visible from now through Labor Day, as they crack down on those taking the risk to drive impaired. Even in states such as Ohio where adult-use cannabis is legal for recreational use, it is still illegal to drive under the influence. It doesn’t matter what substance is to blame. But, according to West Virginia’s Governor’s Highway Safety ...

Weirton’s water questions remain

Not long ago, Weirton’s water system — and the people it serves — went through one of the worst winters in the city’s history, with hundreds of line breaks and numerous water outages happening during a period of several weeks. People weren’t happy, and, eventually, the complaints found their way to the West Virginia Public Service Commission, which held a public hearing in Weirton and launched its own studies of the system. Among its findings, the PSC ruled Weirton’s storage tank capacity is not sufficient enough to meet requirements of the city, that approximately 40 ...

Gee’s OSU return offers perspective

Ohio State University isn’t letting its former President E. Gordon Gee rest for long, after his departure as president of West Virginia University. They’ve asked him to return to Columbus for a one-year consulting role. According to a report by The Columbus Dispatch, that role will include working with OSU’s new Salmon P. Chase Center to recruit faculty and increase the center’s presence on campus and nationally. Chase was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of the treasury and later the sixth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving in that role until his death in 1873. ...