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‘Polar Express’ Excursion a Fan Favorite

DENNISON, Ohio — Tickets are still available for the popular holiday train excursion — “Polar Express” — at The Dennison Railroad Depot Museum at Dennison, Ohio. The Polar Express trips this December are in conjunction with the support of the Genesee and Wyoming Railroad. This train ride offers families a magical Christmas experience aboard a train headed for the North Pole. Aboard the train passengers will get the book “The Polar Express” by Chris Van Allsburg read to them, drink hot cocoa, eat delicious cookies, play games and sing songs. On the way back from the North ...

Dunfee Honored for Live Healthy, Live Well Program

HERSHEY, Pa. — Lorrissa Dunfee, Family and Consumer Sciences educator at the Ohio State University Extension Belmont County, was honored recently at the National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences’ 85th annual session, whose theme was “Nurturing the Richness of Lifelong Learning.” She was a member of the Live Healthy Live Well team that received the First Place National and First Place Central Region NEAFCS Innovation in Programming Award at the conference held Sept. 30-Oct. 3, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In receiving the award, Dunfee was recognized for ...

‘Newhart,’ ‘Deadwood’ Star Will Visit Wheeling Library

WHEELING — Are you a fan of “Newhart,” “Deadwood” or “True Blood?” If you answered “yes” to any of these, then you know William Sanderson, author of the new memoir, “Yes, I’m That Guy: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Character Actor.” Sanderson will visit Lunch With ...

Special Activities

Ladies League The Ladies League of Marshall County will meet in John Marshall High School’s commons at 7 p.m. Monday. A representative from Amedisys Hospice will be the guest speaker. Reservations will be taken for a Dec. 9 Christmas party at Moundsville Country Club. Members are asked to donate personal care items for teenage girls and boys. They are reminded to donate used printer cartridges, dimes, aluminum pull tabs, coupons and Box Tops for Education. Film Showing The Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, 700 Fifth St., will present a “Think Outside the Book” ...

‘E.T.’ to Be Shown at Towngate

WHEELING — Thirty-seven years ago, a little lost alien, 3 million light years from home, wandered into the life of a lonely young boy and into the hearts of moviegoers around the world. “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” finds his way to the Towngate Theatre big screen at 7:30 p.m. Nov. ...

December Calendar

Dec. 1-31 — Oglebay Institute’s Schrader Environmental Education Center, Oglebay Park, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Dec. 1-31 — Good Zoo, Oglebay Park, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Dec. 1-Jan. 5 — Oglebay Institute’s Mansion Museum, Oglebay Park, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. (Exceptions: closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.) Dec. 1-31 — Oglebay Institute’s Glass Museum, Oglebay Park, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 1-31 — Oglebay Institute’s Stifel Fine Arts Center, 1330 National Road, Wheeling, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday and ...