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Jefferson County students gather for See You at the Pole

STEUBENVILLE — Nearly 800 students across Jefferson County gathered before school this week to pray for their classmates, teachers, schools, communities and nation as part of the annual See You at the Pole observance. From Monday morning at Harding Middle School to Friday morning at ...

Steubenville High bonfire helps benefit Europe trips

STEUBENVILLE – A variety of activities centered around a bonfire at the Steubenville High School practice field Thursday helped to kick off the school’s homecoming festivities and raise funds for students to visit Europe during the next two years. Organized by leaders of the school’s ...

Sermon topics

• Bell Chapel UMC: "Strange Nuggets: Content with Little, Content with Much, Content with Jesus" • Cadiz Presbyterian Church: "Are You Thirsty?" • Cove Presbyterian Church: "Witnessing for Jesus" • Harmony Church of Mingo Junction: "The Great Chasm and the Great Omission" • Memorial Baptist Church: "Blessed Are the Pure in Heart" • Finley Church: 10:45 a.m., guest missionaries, Gabe and Dahiana Ernst; 6 p.m., prayer • St. Paul's Church: "Keeping Up Appearances" • Zion United Church of Christ: "Hidden Things, Dark Sayings and Amazing Stories"

History in the Hills: The river revisited

This month marks seven years of my History in the Hills articles, and I can't believe it has been that long. I have covered a lot of history during that time and have completed about 182 articles detailing our past. I thought it might be fun to look back at one that got me started on this journey in 2019, and that piece was all about the Ohio River. Whether we realize it or not, our history is tied to the Ohio River. Flowing through our community over millennia, the river cut the Ohio Valley deeply giving us the landscape we are all familiar with. Looking back to the earliest history ...

FROM THE PULPIT – Freedom

The Fourth of July has come and gone, and I'm sure you had a great time celebrating 250 years of Freedom! There is a different kind of freedom that we all need - and that is the freedom from sin and its consequences. The Word of God says in Romans 6:11-12, "Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof." We need to give ourselves to the Lord, so that we can refrain from the evil desires of the flesh. No longer do we need ...

IC Chiefs event more than a fundraiser

WINTERSVILLE — A local youth sports organization is planning an event designed to bring the community together and provide important lessons to its participants. Chiefs, Cleats and Eats will be held beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, and Tiffany Wallace said organizers want it to be more than a fundraising effort for the Indian Creek Chiefs Youth Football and Cheer Program. "Our goal is much bigger than football," Wallace, president of the organization, said. "We want to bring our community together, support local families and businesses and teach our young athletes that being a Chief ...