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Council honors Steubenville’s trailblazers in resolution

Councilman Royal Mayo, right, presents a resolution celebrating the achievements of Steubenville’s African-American residents, including brothers Jerome and John Edwards, fighter pilots flying with the famed Tuskegee Airmen in World War II, and Moses Fleetwood Walker, who in 1884 was the ...

Wellsburg Independence Day events get off to rainy start

WELLSBURG – Wellsburg’s week-long celebration of the Independence Day holiday got under way over the weekend, although weather was a hindrance to one of the community’s newest events. The Super Kids Race was set to take place Sunday afternoon, after being delayed from its original ...

Top student readers turn pages into playtime for shelter animals

NEW MANCHESTER — The Hancock County Animal Shelter recently welcomed its first group of “Rescue Readers,” as top student readers from New Manchester Elementary School visited the facility recently for a hands-on educational and enrichment experience benefiting both students and shelter ...

Championship bound

Photo by Joe Lovell Wheeling's Ranius Daramola fights through Jersey tacklers inside WesBanco Arena on Saturday during the Wheeling Miners' AAL playoff semifinals game vs. the Jersey Bearcats. The Miners prevailed, 36-9, to advance to 'AAL Championship IV,' which will take place on July 11 ...

Reporter's Notebook: School's out for summer

You've got to give West Virginia Board of Education President Paul Hardesty credit. He keeps trying different ways to get the attention of lawmakers and Gov. Patrick Morrisey to tell them our 55 county school systems are heading toward a fiscal cliff. The question is whether the legislative and executive branches are getting the message. Certainly, Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Amy Grady, R-Mason, and House Education Committee Chairman Joe Statler, R-Monongalia, understand. But efforts by the Legislature last year and earlier this year to make some changes to the school aid ...

Library program grows into something new

A new community resource is sprouting at the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County, where a seed library created in partnership with the Ohio State University Extension and local Master Gardeners is now available to the public. The seed library, located at the Main Library, ...