Vienna News

Artifacts from the 18th and 19th century including weaponry and tools and a 16-foot skiff, which may be the only surviving one of its kind used exclusively in Wood County, are among recently acquired items at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History.

He was born Oct. 26, 1949, in Parkersburg, a son of the late Paul Carder and Eva Lee Sheets Carder Lemon.

Agents with the Parkersburg Violent Crime and Narcotics Task Force arrested a Vienna man after executing a search warrant at the Travel Lodge Inn late Tuesday night, according to a release.

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 16th annual West Virginia Wine and Arts Festival drew large crowds to Martinsburg this Memorial Day weekend, as wine connoisseurs and art lovers gathered to enjoy some of the state's finest wines and the holiday weekend festivities.

Barry Calebaugh, president of the Waverly Lions Club, said the festival has grown over the past seven years and by early Saturday afternoon, about 200 had come to the exhibition area.

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.

Rick K. and The Allnighters, an American rock 'n' roll show band based in Morgantown, recently performed at The Philharmonic in Kursk City, Russia.

Wood County children kindergarten-through-fifth grade who own a dog are invited to tell Wood County Assessor Rich Shaffer why their pet deserves to be top dog.

The 20th annual Mid-Ohio Valley Senior Expo will be 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday at the Grand Pointe Conference Center in Vienna.

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She was born Sept. 5, 1918 on Thomas Run in Belleville, W.Va. She was a homemaker and was very welcoming and loving to all she came in contact with.

A three-day concert series to raise money for multiple sclerosis was canceled after two days and the venue that hosted the event closed.

Around 50 people, including bank officials, local elected officials and others, gathered at 1102 Grand Central Ave.

The Wood County Schools system is asking Vienna residents and officials at the town's schools to watch for the vandals.

Dozens of people came to the Parkersburg City Building between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to look over bike route maps, give input on which were the best and voice concerns about the West Virginia Department of Transportation's Statewide Bicycle Study.

There were 54,157 Wood Countians registered to vote in the primary; 20,872 Democrats; 21,521 Republicans; 38 Mountain Party; 11,299 no party affiliation; 427 other.

Residents of Vienna and Parkersburg approved two more years of funding for local mass transit by a comfortable margin.

Polls opened at 6:30 a.m. today and will remain open until 7:30 p.m. for the 2012 primary election in West Virginia.