Group plans holiday parade
PARKERSBURG — Veterans Day in Parkersburg will be marked with a parade that is coordinated on a rotating basis among local veterans groups. This year’s Veterans Day parade will be coordinated by AMVETS Post 34 on Green Street. A spokeswoman for the post said the parade would line up at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday in the horseshoe at Parkersburg High School. At 10 a.m. the parade will head down Washington Avenue on its way to City Park. At City Park the veterans program will have Roger Sheppard as the master of ceremonies. Members of the AMVETS ladies auxiliary will lay a wreath at the City Park memorial. Bands from Parkersburg, Parkersburg South and Williamstown high schools will be part of the parade as well as Junior ROTC members from Parkersburg and Parkersburg South high schools. In addition to all area veterans posts, other groups participating will be the Korean Wart Veterans, Purple Heart recipients the 1092nd Engineers and the Parkersburg Police Departmen.
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VIENNA — Neale Elementary School’s fourth- and fifth-grade students will gather Monday for a night of music, dancing and comedy in “The Emperor’s New Clothes.”
The musical production, which will be held at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Dunham’s Sports coming to mall
VIENNA —A large retail sports store will soon be opening its doors in Vienna.
Dunham’s Sports, one of the largest full-line sporting good chains in the U..
Planners set public hearing on North Pointe
PARKERSBURG — A public hearing has been set for 7 p.m. Dec. 2 before the Wood County Planning Commission on a proposed West Virginia 31 housing development.
North Pointe subdivision is being developed by William A.
Juliana Street wreck sends several to hospital
PARKERSBURG — A two-vehicle accident Monday at the intersection of 13th and Juliana streets sent five people to local hospitals, including a passenger who was trapped for several minutes inside one of the vehicles, officials sai.
» Full StoryEasy Rider cuts wait time for passengers
PARKERSBURG — Bus riders will no longer have to wait more than 30 minutes for an Easy Rider bus, thanks to a state grant awarded to the Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority in Augus.
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Should the city of Parkersburg and Parkersburg High School declare a Nick Swisher Day to honor the city native-PHS grad on being on the World Series-winning New York Yankees?
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