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JVS Students get hands-on with new circuit trainers

BLOOMINGDALE — The auto service technology program at Jefferson County Joint Vocational School has another tool to enhance student learning with the addition of electrical circuit trainers. Instructor Ron Reasoner said five simulator kits were acquired this year from ATech Training Inc. to ...

Steubenville announces fall cleanup schedule

STEUBENVILLE — It’s fall cleanup time for Steubenville residents. Beginning Friday, Sept. 18, city sanitation crews will be out collecting unwanted household items from residents with active and current utility accounts. All items must be left at the curb where regular trash collection occurs each week and must be placed curbside no sooner than the night before the scheduled collection, officials said. Once the schedule is completed, there will be no return trips, they added. The fall cleanup collection schedule is: — Sept. 18: All streets on Labelle View. — Sept. 25: All ...

Kicking off the school year

Contributed The students, faculty, and staff at St. Joseph the Worker Grade School got the year off to a fast start. This year, the Diocese of Wheeling Charleston set a school-year theme of “Grow in Grace,” and the Rev. Dennis Scheulkens reinforced the theme with the teachings of St. Paul ...

Weirton receives no bids for road de-icing salt

WEIRTON — While there are still a few weeks before the beginning of autumn, Weirton officials are preparing for the winter months, although there will be some challenges. As part of their meeting Tuesday, Weirton Council is set to consider a resolution authorizing the purchase of road ...

Auditor: ‘Hands remain tied’ on $236K water line invoice

STEUBENVILLE — Auditor E.J. Conn told commissioners again Thursday he cannot and will not pay Border Patrol’s $236,112 invoice for “additional restoration services” associated with the State Route 213 water line relocation, reminding them they still haven’t “cured” the way it was done without a contract, without a purchase order, without an auditor’s certificate that the funding had been appropriated and no vote taken during a public meeting. Until those “foundational defects in the procurement and authorization process” are cured, Conn again told commissioners his ...