Ritchie Elementary Named National Blue Ribbon School

WHEELING — Ritchie Elementary School has been recognized as one of the nation’s top spots for learning, joining 352 other schools across the country in being named National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2023. The honor is granted by the U.S. Department of Education. The recognition is based on ...

Sunday Sit-Down: West Liberty University President Tim Borchers

It has been a time of change at West Liberty University, with new university president Tim Borchers at the center of it. WLU announced in May that Borchers, then the vice president for academic affairs at Peru State College in Nebraska, would become WLU’s 38th president. Since then, he has ...

Wheeling 9/11 Ceremony Evolves Into a Longing for Unity

WHEELING — The events of Sept. 11, 2001 were remembered during a ceremony at Heritage Port in Wheeling on Monday — as is the case every year during the anniversary of the historic terrorist attacks on the United States. But after more than two decades since those tragic events, the date ...

State Lifts Do-Not-Use Order for Paden City Water

PADEN CITY — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Bureau of Public Health has lifted a do not consume/use order for Paden City’s water, said Mayor Steve Kastigar on Tuesday. For about the past three weeks, residents and businesses have not been able to consume or use ...