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Ross Gallabrese: Dates To Remember

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The recent string of dry and warm weather we have experienced no doubt has many area residents looking ahead to a summer full of activities and the chance to relax and enjoy time with family and friends. Before we get to that point, though, there are a couple of important anniversaries that need to be noted this weekend. Both have touched the lives of everyone across the region, one happening at the international level and one at the local level. Saturday is the 82nd anniversary of the D-Day invasion, which marked the beginning of the end of World War II. With that landing that took ...

An interesting report

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It doesn't happen all that often in our area, but the sad fact is that in 2025, 15,367 children were reported missing in Ohio. That's the number Attorney General David Yost reported in his annual Missing Children Clearinghouse report. The good news to come out of the report, Yost explained, is that 97.8 percent of those children — 15,024 — were recovered by the end of the year. While that's an impressive number, the statistics show that six of the children who had been reported missing were found dead. "My heart weighs heavy over those still unaccounted for," Yost said in ...

Getting close to summer

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The temperatures residents of the Tri-State Area had a chance to experience on Monday and Tuesday are a sure sign of what we can expect to see during the next several months. Those numbers that hovered right around 90 served as reminders that summer is almost here. That's something to think about as we prepare to commemorate Memorial Day. Depending on how you look at it, Memorial Day is an important marker for the start of the summer season. But whether you believe summer starts Monday, or one week from Monday — June 1 — which is when meteorological summer will begin — or ...

Inspiration from Hurdle

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If the only thing that you know about Clint Hurdle is that he served as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates for nine years, you are only seeing one part of a man who shares words of wisdom and inspirational stories with thousands of people each day. Hurdle, who was the manager of the Pirates from 2010 through 2019, has been sending those messages since 2009. His book, "Hurdle-isms: Wit and Wisdom from a Lifetime in Baseball," is an extension of that, and offers useful insights into sports and life. He shared that message — and discussed what he described as his Christian obstacle ...

Election season heats up

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While Tuesday's Ohio primary election featured a local race that attracted a lot of attention, when all of the ballots were counted, there were very few real surprises. Despite the interest in the Republican primary for the 96th House seat, the voter turnout in Jefferson County was 22.95 percent, not too far from the 20 percent or so that had been expected and right in line with the state's turnout, which was 22.56 percent, according to the secretary of state's office. Wintersville's Ron Ferguson, the incumbent, won that contested race, defeating former state Sen. Frank Hoagland of ...

OVHC continues to grow

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A couple of the takeaways that came from this year's Ohio Valley Health Center Gala were a reminder that a few simple thoughts can grow into an organization that has transformed the lives of thousands of area residents, and that one person can have a big impact on everything around her. Like many things, the center, which has provided quality health care for the region's uninsured and underinsured for more than 20 years now, got its start when community leaders, including the Rev. Bruce Hitchcock, the former director of Urban Mission Ministries, started to look for answers to a simple ...