WVU License Plate To Be Available In Ohio

Supporters of West Virginia University living in Ohio should be able to show their love for the university on their vehicles starting Wednesday. A new WVU license plate for Ohio residents should be available on the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles website starting Wednesday, said Neil ...

Fallingwater Celebrates 90th Anniversary This Year

Rain was threatening at Mill Run on Oct. 29, 1963, and its sound would have created a kind of chorus with the waterfall nearby. A tent was set up in case Gov. William Scranton and other dignitaries needed to escape an autumn downpour. With no way of imagining the horror that would unfold in ...

Governor highlights Local Business During Parkersburg Stop

PARKERSBURG – The governor was in Parkersburg Tuesday talking about what he called meaningful tax relief lawmakers were able to provide over the last legislative session. In bookending Tuesday’s visit with a visit he made back in January, West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey was at ...

Local High School Students Get A Taste Of The Business World

WEIRTON — More than 80 area high school juniors got a chance to step into the business world Tuesday with help from the Weirton Area Chamber of Commerce. The chamber welcomed students from Brooke, Madonna, Oak Glen, Weir, Indian Creek and Steubenville high schools to the annual Dr. Barbara ...

Morrisey announced $3.3 million to aid Weirton Area Water Board

WEIRTON — The Weirton Area Water Board is set to receive additional assistance in its efforts to update parts of the city’s water distribution system, this time from the governor’s office. Gov. Patrick Morrisey came to Weirton Tuesday to announce plans to provide $3.3 million to aid the ...

Son Offering Dad’s Score For Nation's 250th Celebration

A son is offering a march his father began writing while a student at Tyler County High School for free for bands and orchestras to perform in honor of the nation’s 250th birthday. David J. Westfall was 16 when he began writing the “March of Freedom,” a composition that only existed in handwritten form before the advent of modern methods to write and record music in digital form, Rich Westfall, his son, said. Everything was written by hand on staff paper, he said. “He didn’t have the benefit of a computer to write it,” Westfall said. The senior Westfall died in 2022 at ...