NEW MARTINSVILLE — With a consensus that the time had come to take drastic measures, Wetzel County Board of Education members and other school district officials crafted a motion to go before the board at its Tuesday meeting — to consolidate the county’s four high schools into two. The ...
WOODSFIELD — A 99-year-old woman received her Woodsfield High School diploma – after dropping out of school 81 years ago – during a ceremony at Thursday’s Switzerland of Ohio Board of Education. The school board presented Georgia McGarry, 99, her high school diploma after she quit ...
WHEELING — Forty-three years ago, Perry Nardo began a career that would see him ascend from an advertising sales representative at The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register to a regional publisher overseeing several newspapers in the region. Along the way he would craft his own unique ...
WHEELING — Construction of the new Wheeling Fire Department headquarters is expected to resume soon as red tape surrounding the former general contractor’s bankruptcy is apparently beginning to clear. A new general contractor — Great Lakes Contracting — has been selected, and work ...
H. Lawrence Jones, winner of this year’s Dr. Lee Jones Patron of Youth Award from the YMCA, said to his audience Wednesday that he was the product of good parenting. He offered some of his parents’ wisdom during the annual Light of the Valley luncheon at Wheeling Park’s White ...
WHEELING – Eight-year-old Andrew Bieniek got his first taste of golf just five years ago – when he was 3 – when his parents bought him a set of Fisher Price golf clubs. Two weeks ago, he got to play in the U.S. Kids Golf Foundation World Championship at the Mid Pine Golf Course near the ...
