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RESURFACING SET IN STEUBENVILLE STEUBENVILLE — The city will begin its 2026 City Street Hot-Mix Resurfacing Project at 7 a.m. Monday, with work continuing throughout the week, weather permitting. The project will involve cold milling the existing asphalt and placing a hot-mix asphalt intermediate leveling course. A new hot-mix asphalt surface will be installed several weeks later. “No Parking” signs will be posted on affected streets at least one day before work begins. Vehicles left on the street will be towed at the owner's expense. Motorists are encouraged to use alternate ...

Sermon topics

• Bell Chapel UMC: "What's in a Name? Rahab" • Cadiz Presbyterian Church: "The Bad Report and the Long Life" • Cove Presbyterian Church: "For the Beauty of the Earth" (Sunday's service will be held at 11 a.m. at Marland Heights Pavilion 1 and the annual church picnic will follow.) • Finley Church: 10:45 a.m.: "Knowledge is Good, Love is Better;" 6 p.m.: "One Perfect Sacrifice" • First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ): "Words" • Harmony Church: "Good Neighbor Sam" • Memorial Baptist Church: "What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?" • St. Paul's Church: ...

Weirton Church Women United plans busy year ahead

Contributed Members of Church Women United, Weirton, held their welcome back from summer meeting Friday at Eat 'n Park in Weirton. Eleven women participated from five of six churches. Discussion included setting up conference calls on Sept. 4 and Oct. 9; setting meetings for UNICEF ...

Not perfect, but revolutionary

I am not the biggest of movie goers. I will go, but very rarely have I had time to sit for two to three hours watching a movie. It is just easier to wait for it to come out on other media outlets where I can see it on my own time. When we do go with the family it is an enjoyable experience. There is a movie that I want to see again as soon as possible. It might surprise you of my choice. It is not, “Oppenheimer,” or “The Odyssey,” or even “Spider-Man: Brand New Day.” I hope to see them all eventually. The one I want to see again immediately is the movie, ...

History in the Hills: Steubenville’s Female Seminary Revisited

History is all around us and in Steubenville it is on every block. Some blocks, though, no longer exist, but the memory of the places that were once there are still remembered. One of the places that loomed large in our collective memory is the Steubenville Female Seminary. Considering it closed around 128 years ago, its memory is still strong here in town. Looking back at a previous article, one can rediscover its importance. For me, growing up learning the history of our area, one place stuck out as being a place that always was in the background to life in Steubenville. The place ...

Swastika painted on Temple Shalom prompts police investigation

Rabbi Joshua Lief had a few emotions running through him after a neighbor informed him Thursday morning that a swastika had been painted on the exterior of Temple Shalom, the Ohio Valley's only synagogue. There was shock that someone would take the time to deface the building with a Nazi ...