Williamstown News

Brian Raitz, director of the Wood County/Parkersburg Library, asked Wood County commissioners to consider placing a five-year, $2.2 million levy on the May primary election ballot.

Escaping from pro-slavery Virginia into anti-slavery Ohio was no guarantee of freedom or safety for runaway slaves in the early 1800s.

Three people were injured Tuesday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident involving a garbage truck and a pickup truck at Williamstown.

Super Bowl Sunday wasn't totally about football this weekend as some area churches took part in the national Souper Bowl of Caring to benefit local food pantries.

Roberta Virginia Boone, 79, of Parkersburg, died on Feb. 2, 2012, at Worthington Nursing and Rehab Center.

DOWN: To state Sen. Dave Nohe, R-Wood, and state Sen. Donna Boley, R-Pleasants, for co-sponsoring a bill pushed by the group "We the Parents," allowing parents to opt out of school-mandated vaccinations for non-medical reasons.

Ohio State Highway Patrol Trooper Robert Bodo doesn't consider himself a hero after helping to save the life of a man who went into cardiac arrest on the side of U.S. Route 22.

During a discussion about the elementary school at Tuesday's Wood County Board of Education meeting, board President Tad Wilson said he had recently been approached by members of the Fenton family about the school district using the 7-acre factory site in Williamstown.

The law governing establishment of early vote locales has changed since the last time the county considered and rejected the option.