The American Queen visits Point Pleasant
No body found after search of river
A royal “Tribute to the River”
Local libraries “rock out”
‘Bend Area CARE’ bike ride
Latest Updates
- Railroad museum begins interior improvements process - 12:41 am
- Mason County Memories: Steamboat Days - 9:00 pm
- Preparing for the fair, bleachers being renovated - 6:18 pm
- Low water levels impact recreation craft at Locks - 4:56 pm updated: 5:09 pm.
- The American Queen visits Point Pleasant - 3:27 pm
- Board of Education approves personnel items - 3:20 pm
- Tritt, Rice to headline fourth annual Peck Fest - 2:01 pm updated: 2:05 pm.
- River royalty returns to Point Pleasant - 5:00 pm
- Point council gives thanks to first responders, volunteers - 4:26 pm
- No body found after search of river - 9:20 am
- Buffington Island Battlefield Memorial coming - 8:04 pm
- Splash Pad update, project redirection - 4:00 pm
- New Haven council addresses ongoing issues - 3:57 pm
- A royal “Tribute to the River” - 3:55 pm
- Holzer Hospice provides care to patients, families - 1:31 pm
- Pitts named MCCF program manager - 8:38 pm
- Local libraries “rock out” - 8:37 pm
- Hull Pottery show July 13-14 - 1:28 pm
- Doeffinger brings the heat - 6:31 pm
- Krodel Park’s newest addition - 6:15 pm
- ‘Bend Area CARE’ bike ride - 4:44 pm
- Rio Grande Community College Board inducts new members - 4:31 pm
- Emergency blood shortage: Red Cross issues urgent call for blood donors - 12:12 pm
- Author holds writing workshop with area youth - 10:08 pm
- Big Bend Blues Bash returns July 27 - 10:18 am
NEWS
No body found after search of river
MASON — Four local volunteer fire departments spent part of the overnight hours searching the Ohio River after a report of a possible body float...
Buffington Island Battlefield Memorial coming
PORTLAND — Ohio Department Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will be hosting the Buffington Island Battlefield Memorial Service, July 21, ...
Splash Pad update, project redirection
POINT PLEASANT — Councilwoman Leigh Ann Shepard gave an update on the Krodel Park Splash Pad project at the recently held Point Pleasant City Co...
New Haven council addresses ongoing issues
NEW HAVEN — The new administration for the town of New Haven held its first council meeting recently, after taking office on July 1.Those in att...
A royal “Tribute to the River”
POINT PLEASANT — The Point Pleasant River Museum and Learning Center has joined its annual Tribute to the River event with the Miss Twin Rivers ...
Holzer Hospice provides care to patients, families
End-of-life discussions with your family can be uncomfortable and full of mixed emotions. However, in choosing Holzer Hospice, individuals are provide...
SPORTS
VanMeter competes in area all-star game
Recent graduate Paige VanMeter represented Southern one final time on Monday during the 11th Annual Fastpitch Softball All-Star game being held at VA ...
Salute to Bald Eagles over Independence Day
In addition to hamburgers, hot dogs, and fireworks during this past week’s Independence Day holiday, one thing you may have enjoyed, if you were...
Kight hired as Eastern boys basketball coach
TUPPERS PLAINS, Ohio — An experienced leader for an experienced group of Eagles.At a recent meeting, the Eastern Local School District Board of ...
Prep Football just 7 weeks away
The countdown to high school football season is under 50 days, as all nine local programs begin the 2018 campaign on Aug. 24. Four local schools open ...
A warm day for Capehart round No.3
MASON, W.Va. — Perhaps the best question of the day would have been which was warmer the temperature or the golf being shot at the Riverside Gol...
Burdette nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year
Jenna Burdette — a 2014 graduate of Eastern High School — was one of two Dayton Flyers to receive a nomination for the NCAA Woman of the Y...
LIFE
Good Shepherd welcomes new pastor
The West Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church has appointed Pastor Randy Mitchell to Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in (Flatrock)...
Camp Conley CEOS club meets
On June 18, members of the Camp Conley CEOS Club traveled to Teays Valley for lunch.They met Betty Johnston, a club member now living in Hurricane, fo...
Mason CEOS entertains international student
MASON — The Mason County Community Educational Outreach Service (CEOS) recently entertained Line-Audrey Maeva Nkule Sonkeng, the 2016-18 West Vi...
The top 10 audiobooks on Audible.com
Audible.com best-sellers for week ending June 29:Fiction1. Something in the Water by Catherine Steadman, narrated by the author (Random House Audio)2....
Point Pleasant Sternwheel Regatta Pretty Baby contest and Jr. Royalty winners
Bryson Sweeney, son of Brandy and Brandon Sweeney, was crowned the 2018 Little Mister Showboat by his brother, who is the current Little Mister Mason ...
July 3rd, 2018 updated: July 5th, 2018. |
Kyger Creek service awards
CHESHIRE — Ohio Valley Electric Corporation congratulates its employees who celebrated service award anniversaries in April, May and June of thi...
OPINION
A Hunger for More: God is great
In an age when Biblical “literacy” has dramatically (and tragically) decreased, it may be easy to shrug one’s shoulders and claim a ...
Teen testimony: What do you have to give?
Everyone likes to receive, but not everyone likes to give.“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for...
The trip: The canyon
For a long time, I said to my family that I would like to go to Alaska and stand on a glacier. It was a dream that I thought would never take place be...
We Can’t Afford to Lose Focus on the Illicit and Illegal Drugs
When I first began my career in law enforcement nearly 40 years ago, I never thought that our part of Ohio would be one of the worst hit by the opioid...
A Hunger for More:
“Going home is never easy,” I once heard someone say. I’ve also heard that once you leave and set out on your own path in life, R...
Search the Scriptures: About Liberty
There is a sweetness to the sound of the word, “liberty;” a sweetness born from the concepts and ideas embodied within the definition of t...
