SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Faulting inaction in Washington, governors and state lawmakers are racing to get pandemic relief to small-business owners, the unemployed, renters and others whose livelihoods have been upended by the widening coronavirus outbreak. In some cases, elected officials are ...
The Super Six, the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission's trio of state football championship games, will not happen this season, a victim of the West Virginia Department of Education's COVID-19 school opening map. Yet three prep football teams in West Virginia will claim state ...
For the first time since 1993, the West Virginia Super Six Football Championships will not be held in Wheeling. The three state championship football games will be played this year at Charleston’s Laidley Field at University of Charleston Stadium, which hosted the games prior to their move to Wheeling Island Stadium. Secondary School Activities Commission Executive Director Bernie Dolan made the announcement Friday morning because Ohio County is still “firmly entrenched” in “orange” on the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map. Prep sports ...
WHEELING — The Thanksgiving leftovers are just about gone by today, so for many it’s time to turn thoughts to Christmas and Hanukkah. But with escalating COVID-19 cases and deaths, what will religious services look like this holiday season? While some religious leaders are taking a “wait and see” attitude regarding in-person Christmas celebrations, others are moving ahead with plans. At St. Michael Catholic Church in Wheeling, one of the Diocese’s largest congregations, church goers are being asked to make reservations for Christmas Eve services in anticipation of the ...
WHEELING — After a person has weathered the sickness associated with COVID-19 and been released from isolation during their quarantine, they’re still asked to take the same precautions as the general population, although they’ve earned a brief respite from further infection. A person ...
The entire Northern Panhandle sat in “orange” for the second straight day Friday on the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources daily COVID-19 alert map. If those designations hold for Saturday evening’s school openings map from the West Virginia Department of Education, then students in Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties all will learn remotely this coming week. All four counties were in the same position last week, though Hancock and Ohio counties were “orange” and Brooke and Marshall counties were “red.” Ohio County had an infection rate of ...
