Wintersville News

Many area residents turned out for the annual Fourth of July Paradeand memorial service.

A US company has apologised after featuring a Welsh couple murdered on their Caribbean honeymoon as "happy customers" - a year after their deaths.

In loving memory of Walter Thomas Joyce, 73, of Wintersville, Ohio, loving husband, beloved father, grandfather and great-grandfather and brother, who passed away following a brief illness, Wednesday, July 7, 2009, in Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville surrounded by his family.

When Patrolman Art Fowler of the Wintersville Police Department saw an opportunity to add a new member to the police force, he took it.

WINTERSVILLE a ' Thomas and Deborah Bottorf of Wintersville announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Jean, to Matthew Joel Cross, son of Mary Beth Cross of Follansbee and the late Joel Cross.

Area residents who donated blood on Media Day Blood Drive for the American Red Cross Jefferson County Chapter know the importance of the act.

Many area residents turned out for Thunder in the Valley on June 26-27 to see the festival's fireworks display and four public officials attempt to dodge a barrage of paintballs.

Patrolman Art Fowler presented council with the new police dog. Fowler and year-old Belgian Malinois, Ali, recently completed 90 hours of training and have already been out on the streets, Fowler noted.

WINTERSVILLE a ' Kara Nicole Konczal and Matthew James Purviance were married May 16 during a 3:30 p.m. ceremony at the Wintersville United Methodist Church with the Rev.

The Jefferson County Chapter of the American Red Cross is hoping you'll help give the gift of life.

To participate in a cleanup on the streets of the Labelle neighborhood, about a dozen residents brought not only rubber gloves and plastic garbage bags.

HUKILL, Cleora C., 86, of Wintersville, Ohio, died Thursday, June 25, 2009, in the Carriage House.

The annual Thunder in the Valley festival is slated to take place Friday and Saturday, and organizers are excited about what they have in store for festival-goers this year.

KUCZYKOWSKI, John J., 82, of Wintersville, Ohio, died Sunday at home. He is the husband of Dorothy Kuczykowski.

There's more to education than classrooms and textbooks. Just ask Linda Lenzi. "Education and learning are lifelong skills, and children need to realize that concept," said Lenzi, a Monongahela native who coordinates the gifted student program for students in grades four through eight in the Indian Creek School District in Wintersville, Ohio.

Bettering the village's recreational opportunities was among the topics council members discussed during their regular meeting Thursday.

The Jefferson County Drug Task Force and City Police arrested 15 men Wednesday and Thursday in a reverse prostitution sting operation in the downtown area.

MINGO?JUNCTION?a ' Wintersville Post 557 scored twice in the bottom of the sixth inning to beat visiting Coshocton, 6-4, Tuesday at Muth Field.

A man who allegedly fired numerous shots into a parked vehicle near Dillonvale on Sunday was charged with four crimes on Monday.

MAXWELL, James R. "Bush" "Max," 59, of Wintersville, Ohio, the best dad in the world, lost his fight with cancer on Sunday, June 14, 2009, at his home with his family by his side.