WHEELING — Our Lady of Peace School is focusing on faith, growth and well-being to develop students to be leaders now and in the future. Principal Maureen Kerr, who is also a 1994 graduate of the Marshall County hilltop school, noted each year the school selects a theme to help the ...
CHARLESTON — WorkForce West Virginia will hold its next Statewide Virtual Job Fair for Feb. 4. The virtual event, available to both job seekers and employers, will be from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Adkins noted the virtual job fair held earlier this month included 1,077 registered job seekers, 106 employers and 614 available job openings. Registration is required for interested employers and job seekers, with information on procedures and requirements available online through workforcewv.org or by emailing wfwvvjf@wv.gov. When attending the event, job seekers are encouraged ...
A series of new Ohio election laws aimed at removing non-citizens from voting rolls violates federal law, the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio and other groups said Thursday. Senate Bill 293, signed into law last month, orders the Ohio secretary of state to complete “comparison checks” of the state’s voter registration list with state and federal records to identify possible non-citizens . “Voters with mismatched data must correct any information prior to voting or else they will be required to use a provisional ballot,” the ACLU said in a news release. The new law ...
The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia at www.wvencyclopedia.org. Jan. 25, 1814: Francis Harrison Pierpont was born near Morgantown. On June 20, 1861, Pierpont was unanimously elected as governor of the unionist Reorganized State of Virginia, which sat at Wheeling until West Virginia entered the Union two years later. Jan. 25, 1878: Activist Lenna Lowe Yost was born in Basnettville in Marion County. She held key leadership roles in the woman’s suffrage and temperance movements. Jan. 25, 1889: ...
The Ohio County Sheriff’s Office is seeking to unload its well-known Hummer and nine other vehicles as the county moves toward leasing six new vehicles for the department. The 2005 Hummer has just 5,495 miles on it, and is among older and mostly unused vehicles in the department’s fleet ...
The Belmont County Animal Shelter and Belmont County Cat Stray Shun have partnered up once again for three upcoming fundraising events. On Saturday and again on Feb 7, the duo will be at the Ohio Valley Mall from noon until 3 p.m. On Feb. 12, they are teaming up at the Belmont County ...
