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Williams Lea Joins United Nations Global Compact

WHEELING — Global skilled business support services firm Williams Lea announced that it is joining the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. The UNGC is a voluntary program based on CEO commitments to align strategies and operations with ten universal principles on labor, human rights, environment and anti-corruption, and to take actions that advance societal goals. Joining the UNGC is a core part of Beyond Business, Williams Lea’s ESG program. In 2023, to align with the principles and sustainable development goals of the UNGC, ...

Harshman’s New ‘Dark Hills of Home’ Published

WHEELING — In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Marc Harshman’s appointment as the Poet Laureate of West Virginia, Monongahela Books is excited to announce the publication of this new collection of 17 poems lavishly illustrated with period engravings. The gathering includes a few poems from very early in Harshman’s career, as well as poems never before published in book form. As the publisher’s blurb notes: “Every poem in the ‘Dark Hills of Home’ has its birth among the foothills and hollows of the western Alleghenies, between the Ohio and Monongahela rivers in the ...

How to Help Animal Shelters During Coronavirus Outbreak

WHEELING — Three local animal shelters have varied responses to how they are handling animal adoptions in response to the ongoing coronavirus crisis. While animal shelter facilities in Ohio, Marshall and Belmont counties are all currently closed to the general public, the shelters in ...

Support Small Businesses During the Coronavirus Outbreak

WHEELING — Even during the coronavirus outbreak that has many people staying at home to avoid spreading the disease, there are many ways to support local businesses. Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce President Erikka Storch said that one way for locals to support their small business ...

Many Restaurants Still Open For Take-Out During Outbreak

WHEELING — Local eat-in restaurants are adjusting to the ins and outs of being take-out only businesses. Public dining areas in both Ohio and West Virginia have been ordered close by respective state officials amid coronavirus scares, but still they are trying to make a go of it by ...

How to Help CFOV’s Emergency Impact Fund

WHEELING — In response to the mounting challenges created by COVID-19 coronavirus, the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley has created an Emergency Impact Fund to provide operating grants to organizations in the foundation’s eight-county service area working to maintain services with decreasing means of support. While the long-term impact of the pandemic remains unknown, organizations working to fulfill already critical needs are feeling strain, which is resulting in new challenges. This presents an opportunity for the community to gather and deploy resources in a responsive, ...