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180 Days: Districts struggle with school calendars
August 21, 2008
PARKERSBURG — School systems throughout the state, including Wood County Schools, are having trouble meeting the state required 180 days of instruction.
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‘There was no chase’
August 21, 2008
BELPRE — Belpre officials are denying rumors that a police chase led to a fatal crash in involving two juveniles last week.
Belpre police Chief Ira Walker said the rumors were absolutely untrue.
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Police dealing with Civitan geese problem
August 21, 2008
BELPRE — Shots being fired in Belpre are a scare tactic for water fowl, officials said.
“It was one thing we decided to try that is the most humane thing we can think of,” said Mayor Mike Lorentz.
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Second teen dies in Friday wreck
August 20, 2008
BELPRE — The second victim of a truck crash last week died Tuesday morning in a Columbus hospital.
Police are withholding the 13-year-old boy’s name. He died at approximately 4:53 a.m.
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Grave thefts suspects arrested
August 20, 2008
PARKERSBURG — Two people have been arrested in connection with two separate rashes of thievery at local cemeteries.
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BOE seeks revised LSIC reports
August 20, 2008
PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Board of Education is asking Local School Improvement Councils to deliver some different information this year when giving annual reports.
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Welcome to Denver, 1st District!
Wed, August 20, 2008 @ 6:51PM
Hi Folks! This is the first post to our blog (soon to be) from the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Denver, Colorado. We are Walt Auvil and Jean Grapes, both of Wood County, WV. We are proud representatives of West Virginia's 1st Congressional District. The 1st covers a wide variety of settings from Mineral County in the East, to Hancock in the North and Wood in the South. Jean and I are eager to report to you on the happenings in and around the DNC next week. We are alo eager to hear from West Virginians, and particularly those in the 1st District, which we were elected to represent. We leave this coming Sunday, August 23rd, for the DNC. Jean and I are Hillary Clinton Delegates and are voting for her (as directed by the primary election voters in our District) unless and until released by Senator Clinton.
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Theatre anyone?
Thu, August 7, 2008 @ 9:01AM
I'm going to step away from the annoyance I feel about the endless movie remakes and CD re-releases going on at present. Instead, I'm going to share my excitement and show my inner geek. According to the Agence France-Presse, archaeologists in England have discovered remains of a 16th century playhouse known as The Theatre. Now, I know that finding an old building in Europe isn't a surprise, but the significance of this find is that The Theatre was the first professional home of William Shakespeare. The now famous play write acted on the stage and that particular building was the first home of such plays as "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." I have been to England I was able to visit the new Globe Theatre, which is a replica of Shakespeare's second stage home, but to actually visit the remains of the original site would be more inspiring.
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Can't run 13.1 miles?? Try 2 instead
Thu, July 10, 2008 @ 9:04AM
Want to be a part of race weekend and running 13.1 miles is absolutely out of question for you? Want to try something a little bit more practical for your fitness level? Consider running or walking in the Parkersburg News and Sentinel Two-Mile Race. This race is great if you are trying to set a personal record, testing your summer training, or a high school or college team looking to get some race experience before the season starts. Most participants are a part of a team from work, or a group of friends who work all summer long to better their health.
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Olympics
Tue, August 12, 2008 @ 12:29PM
I've been watching the summer Olympics on television - I always forget how much fun the sports are until I start watching them. Several times, the Beijing sky, in all it's smoggy glory has been shown. I have heard that many people are wearing masks to limit their exposure. It seems to me that it would be a great location to make some money -"Finest medical masks available. Allows you to take a deep breath and not worry! Guaranteed to stop everything but oxygen!" Hopefully, no one is being scammed because they did not take a mask over with them but I would expect several vendors to have masks for sale at incredibly high prices. May be I should have purchased stock in a medical mask making company before the Olympics started. Oh well. Too late now.
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West Virginia tops in UFO activity
Sat, August 16, 2008 @ 4:03PM
Associated Press is reporting Frank Feschino, a UFO researcher and writer, believes West Virginia has more extraterrestrial activity than any other state in the nation. A study he did showed alien ships crashed 10 times here on the night of Sept. 12, 1952, when the ``Flatwoods Monster' was born. The vehicles escaped, but were damaged while the flew low in the West Virginia hills to avoid detection by radar, he said. On the 56th anniversary on Sept. 12, Feschino and Stanton Friedman, a noted UFO researcher and former physicist, will be the keynote speakers at a two-day convention in St. Albans.
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Author Book Signing
Mon, August 18, 2008 @ 9:25AM
A native West Virginia author, Mary Lou Warstler, will be signing her two mystery novels, "Cats in the Belfrey" and "Pushing Up Geraniums" from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the local Borders store. Warstler is a retired ordained elder in the East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church. She has received several awards for her writing and published several short stories and poems, as well as worship resources, plays and sermons. She has been married to Rodney Warstler, a retired United Methodist minister, for 51 years. They have four children, nine grandchildren and one great-grandson. Warstler's first Biblical fiction, "Before the Dawn: A Night of Memories" was published in 2002 from PublishAmerica. "Cats in the Belfrey" was published in 2007 from PublishAmerica, and "Pushing Up Geraniums" was published in January 2008. The third in the series will be available January 2009.
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Should a sex offender be allowed to play high school football
Thu, August 21, 2008 @ 8:52AM
Should a sex offender be allowed to play high school football? That's the question Vemillion Ohio officials are asking. A 17-year-old who admitted to gross sexual imposition - he (drunkenly) had sex with a girl who was passed out - wants to play high school football. The decision to keep the student off the team is solely in the district's hands. The Ohio High School Athletic Association does not have a policy for student-athletes with criminal records. There is no mention as to whether the kid is a star player. Though he and his family are being sued by the girl, who has since graduated. My hope is they tell the kid no. My bet: the kid is in pads and on the field by kickoff.
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Now that's poetry
Wed, August 20, 2008 @ 9:21AM
I have this old hardback book that's about a hundred years old now, Robert Service's "Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses." For years, I have carried it with me on many fishing trips and itás a great deer-camp read. When it's painfully hot, reading "The Cremation of Sam Magee" either makes you feel cold inside, or resigns you to the fact that the heat is much better than the Yukon chill that froze the bones of Sam Magee. My first exposure to Service was as a kid at the soil and water conservation camp in Cedar Lakes. One of the adult leaders could recite it from memory and he did by the campfire every year. Service wasn't an adventurer like Jack London, although he wanted to be. He left his job as a bank teller in Scotland to move to Canada seeking some excitement. He wound up working as a bank teller in Canada, but his poems made him a fortune.
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TitleTown voting pushes online polls into spotlight
Fri, July 25, 2008 @ 3:09PM
ESPN’s TitleTown project has generated a lot of talk about polls this week. The Disney-owned broadcast giant is trying to determine what community in the nation deserves to be called TitleTown. They are using an online poll to pick the community. Parkersburg is among the cities in the running. Most online polls use a variety of ways to keep from voting more than once. There are two popular methods. A lot of sites use a what’s called a cookie to determine if you have voted on a poll. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer. It is what tells a web page to display the “thank you for voting” message, or in some cases the current results of the poll. Other sites watch to see what IP address a user is coming from. An IP address is your location on the web.
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Pigskin Preview
Thu, August 21, 2008 @ 8:36AM
After weeks of work gathering information, days of laying it out, printing it and stitching and trimming it into a compact edition, the 2008 Pigskin Preview hit the streets today, one day before high school football season begins in Ohio and a week before it starts in West Virginia. The edition covers high schools in the News and Sentinel's circulation area as well as the major college teams our sports department follows throughout the season. Someday, maybe, the two states can get their acts together and begin the high school seasons on the same day, but that probably would be asking too much.
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