Parkersburg News

Walter "Fuzz" LaRue, field representative for the West Virginia State Building and Construction Trades Council, said representatives of about a dozen area trades unions gathered in Parkersburg to create awareness of the kinds of programs offered in the Mid-Ohio Valley.

After years of thinking about meeting and touring their ancestors' home, three Blennerhassett descendants spent Thursday in Parkersburg touring the museum and island that bear the Blennerhassett name.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginians will get a chance this summer to learn more about the recent sweeping review of the state's public school system.

The Wood County Board of Education has reached an out-of-court settlement with a Pleasants County couple whose daughter was assaulted by her former teacher.

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Eleven months ago, it looked as if Fenton Art Glass Co., which opened its Williamstown facility in 1906, did not have a future.

At 8 a.m. Saturday, the race toward the 2012 Ohio River Sternwheel Festival began in more ways than one.

More than 100 community members and veterans braved the heat as they gathered in City Park on Monday morning to pay homage to and remember fallen soldiers, those missing in action and also their loved ones.

Now that summer has begun, at least unofficially, area residents can be found participating in an old fashioned pastime, relaxing for hours on a summer day, or evening, at their old favorite fishing hole.

The Henry Cooper Log Cabin Museum in Parkersburg's City Park will open for the season on June 3 with tours and free admission.

A letter written by attorney Andrew Woofter to Wood County Commission President Blair Couch about delinquent personal property taxes owed by Couch's former business was released pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Couch's political opponent Harry Deitzler, officials said on Friday.

While many businesses will be closed Monday for Memorial Day, a number of area attractions are open through this weekend and will be open to visitors Monday on the first official weekend of the summer tourism season.

The long Memorial Day holiday weekend got off to a deadly start in West Virginia as three people were killed in separate traffic accidents.

This year's Elinor K. Ross Walk Your Paws, which has a theme of "Viva Paws Vegas," will begin with registration from 8:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. The walk will begin at 10 a.m., rain or shine.

UP: To the Memorial Day weekend, the gateway to the summer and, for most a three-day holiday.

After four days of deliberations the May session of the grand jury indicted 69 individuals, said Wood County Prosecutor Jason Wharton.

May 4 Carl Eugene Westbrook vs. Noah John Westbrook and Westbrook Drive-In Theatre Inc.

A new company wants to restart production at Fenton Art Glass Company and repackage the product for a new generation of customers.

The possibility that a pending regulation for the Internal Revenue Service will prevent some West Virginia state employees as well as many who are working in the state's public school system from retiring until they reach the age of 62 came as quite a bombshell to state legislators during last week's round of interim committee meetings in ... (more)

A Wood County commissioner says he's trying to make arrangements to pay the county taxes owed by a former family business that operated a car rental franchise that was taken over by the franchise owner.