According to scanner communication between Ohio County 911 dispatchers and first responders, crews were first released before 8:30 p.m. last night from the scene of the massive fire, but the Ladder 1 and Ladder 6 companies remained to continue efforts to completely extinguished the blaze. Once maintained, a skeleton crew remained on scene.
What I've come to realize, especially as my kids and their wants get bigger and more expensive this time of year, is that love is what fills the gaps of Christmas.
While running for office for a complete year before May 2016, the downtown district was a big focus for many of you because that’s what the Main Street organization’s studies dictated, and voters bought in because, well, it was ugly out there then … but is way worse today.
And
there they are once again, those bell-ringing folks standing next to a red
kettle outside several stores at The Highlands and at the Ohio Valley...
If an individual has moved away, there’s something about this place that lures you back here whether you’re from the Ohio side or native of the northern panhandle, and those are the same reasons why many have never left. If you haven’t moved back, you do return every time it’s possible no matter where you live now.
The other day upon returning home from St. Clairsville, I was stopped at the light between the end of the off ramp beside Perkins and National Road when I suddenly realized I was humming strains of the Linsly Military Institute alma mater.
It must feel like deja vu for Class A as a whole and for No. 1 Doddridge County and No. 3 Pendelton County in particular, since they are tasked with stopping the two most dominant Class A programs this century from making yet another march toward Wheeling Island Stadium.
