Life

May Day to Rock St. C. on Saturday

Out & About

ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Two Thirty One Productions presents the inaugural May Day on Saturday, May 2, at the Kevin Barr Event Center (formerly the Ruritan Building) in St. Clairsville. Doors open at 6 p.m. with tickets being $15 in advance and $25 at the door. The all-ages event will see multiple local and regional pop-punk, emo and alternative acts perform. Regional heavy-hitters Younger, Hey Nostradamus and Aurora's Light will be making their return to Belmont County for the first time in over 12 years, while Columbus pop-punk band Nervous Energies is returning hot off the heels of ...

The Sights and Sounds of Spring

Features

WHEELING – The spring season did not arrive quietly at our Ohio County homestead. Rather it showed up quite loudly with thunder, lightning and rain. Just when Mother Nature teased us with warm breezes and we thought it safe to sleep with the windows open, bam, wrong.  The seasonal thunder ...

Trail Partners Host Family Bicycle Ride May 3

Features

WHEELING — Ohio Valley Trail Partners, coordinating group that holds the annual Wheeling Heritage Trail Bicycle Tour as part of Ogden Wellness Weekend and set for Sunday, May 24, Memorial Day Weekend, is offering a Family Bicycle Ride set for Sunday, May 3 on Wheeling streets. The ride is free and open to the public. Riders will get a free back pack, handy to have when riding. Riders will register at north intersection of Wheeling Center Market before the liftoff at 1 p.m. All riders must wear helmets. The group will ride city streets, and historic sites will be noticed. Riders ...

Campbell-Palmer

Engagements

Rebecca and Gordon Palmer are pleased to announce the engagement of their son, Gordon A. Palmer, to Taylor L. Campbell. The bride, originally of Pierre, South Dakota, works as an oral surgery assistant. The prospective groom graduated from Wheeling Park High School. He is currently working ...

Special Library Program to Honor 'Doc'

Features

WHEELING – The Ohio County Public Library will celebrate the life of a longtime patron and a great and loyal friend of the Lunch With Books program, Dr. Hossein Yassini-Fard, from 5:30-7 p.m. on Thursday, April 30. “Doc” has been visiting the library and attending programs for many years. He always remembered greeted everyone with a soft-spoken “hello” or “good morning” before getting his coffee. Library staff will remember him with great fondness. Attendees can join in this celebration of a life well lived and say a fond farewell to “Doc.” There will be speakers ...

Woman's Club of Wheeling Installs New Officers

Features

WHEELING – The Woman’s Club of Wheeling held its Inaugural Luncheon on April 17 at Monument Place in Wheeling. The club is part of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs and GFWC West Virginia. GFWC is an international women’s organization dedicated to community improvement by ...