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MCHS Thunder on football the river skills camp 2024 See A6 See B3 Still Free! Ohio news Inside Pages A2, A5, A6, A7, 9 Monroe Co. projects funded A9, B4, B5-B8, B9 INNformer Page A2 Visit us online @ MOVinformer.com Volume 11, No. 15 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 July 26, 2024 Beallsville celebrates 200 years! BICENTENNIAL JULY 26-28 BEALLSVILLE, Ohio – Laid out by a hearty frontiersman named Citizen Beall 200 years ago, the northern Monroe County village of Beallsville will hold its bicentennial celebration starting Friday, July 26, through Sunday, July 28. And there will be fun for the whole family! The Opening Ceremony kicks off the celebration Friday at 4 p.m. with the presentation of the flag by the PCHS gets its (1st) day in court American Legion, singing of the na- tional anthem by Dana Williams, Circuit Court of Wetzel County, is- By Charles Winslow over concerns relating to the EPAs followed by opening remarks and sued a temporary restraining order Superfund designation. At a sub- PADEN CITY – With thunder July 12 preventing Porter from clos- the Proclamation of Bicentennial by echoing in the hills and rain threat- sequent Board of Education meet- ing PCHS for the upcoming school John Gramlich, mayor of Beallsville. ing it was disclosed soon after she ening, close to a hundred Paden year and allowing for the resump- At 4:30 p.m. the crowning of the Bi- also canceled schedules for all of the City High School supporters gath- tion of all school activities. centennial Royalty will take place. Wild Cat athletic teams, effectively ered during the evening of July 23 at attempting to end all sports and At 5 p.m. Blue and White Night, a The preliminary hearing relating to Paden City Park to prepare for what school activities – including the welcome of all Beallsville High the temporary restraining order was could be the first round of court ac- schools award-winning marching School Alumni and the Scavenger scheduled for July 25 and the meet- tion relating to the schools abrupt Hunt sign-up, with the rules and list band. ing in the park was relating to the closure. At the request of 28 plaintiffs, led by appropriate dress code in court and of items being released. On June 11, and without warning, expected conduct during and after the Paden City Schools Athletic As- Between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. there Wetzel County Schools Superinten- court hearings in order to preserve sociation, who filed a petition will be an historical exhibit at the dent Cassandra Porter sent out an the positive public image of PCHS against Porter and the West Virginia First Church Fellowship Hall. email stating she was “temporarily Secondary Schools Activities Com- mission, Judge C. Richard Wilson, Continued on page A2 Continued on page A2 closing the school immediately Tyler County native buys Ripley radio station By Charles Winslow taken the next step and signed on as a radio sta- day Recess program. Goodfellows presentation After working for 18 years in the local radio mar- tion owner. prompted Northcraft to focus on classes he thought he would need to get into broadcast ket and almost another six With working in the backing of the bigtw o local business partners leagues, Tyler County native Scott Northcraft has June 28 Northcraft, 39, became the owner of the media. 6,000-watt WCEF, a country music format radio While still at Tyler Consolidated, Northcraft was station in Ripley, Jackson County. The station, at hired by Seven Ranges 93R to do a show and by his junior year he had taken over as the regular 98.3 on the FM dial, has the tagline “The Bull, DJ during the 6 p.m.-11 p.m. weekday shift. Be- todays New Hit Country, and is home to “Shootin the Bull with Sean, weekday mornings tween his junior and senior year he found himself 6 a.m.- 9:30 a.m., and The Afternoon Road Show the stations operations manager. with Linda Lou, 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., two live locally In 2009 he graduated with a bachelors degree in produced shows. broadcast journalism from WVU, after doing a “Its a new journey for me as a radio stationstint as weekend news producer and occasional owner, Northcraft, a 2004 Tyler Consolidatedon-air repor ter while taking classes. After gradu- High School graduate, said. “Im nervous bating he ut was hired full-time at Seven Ranges and very excited. I have two fantastic business part-in 2018 was offered an engineering position with ners and a great staff. “ the Westwood One Radio Network, a leader in syndicated radio programming and content. Northcrafts road to radio station ownership started in the third grade when Greg Goodfellow, “And, yes, Im staying on at Westwood One, said founder and former general manager of WRSG, Northcraft. “WCEF has a great staff and wont did a talk on television during his schools Satur- need me everyday. ACLs American Heritage sternwheeler to pass by SISTERSVILLE – The American With ACLs purchase and scrapping Heritage, the second of American of the former American Queen Voy- Cruise Lines river boats to travel to ages sternwheelers, the American the upper reaches of the Ohio River Duchess, American Countess and in July, will be heading south the well-loved American Queen, through this region during the night earlier this year the American Her- of July 28-29. itage is the last of the classic long- The first boat, the American distance overnight sternwheelers on Melody, made its debut on the Ohio the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. with two stops in Marietta earlier in The American Heritage departed the month. from St. Louis for Pittsburgh July 12, The 380-foot American Melody is with scheduled stops in Marietta July of the sternwheelers with theirThe Amer ican Heritage, however, is 24 and Moundsville July 25. Its the fourth riverboat in ACLs Modern Series – in fa 300-foot classic fivavor of a e-decker that “Modern Series of vessels built by straight bow and side elevations fea- can accommodate 150 passengers in scheduled to board passengers in Chesapeake Shipbuilding in Salis- Pittsburgh for 15-day, 11 ports of call, bury, Maryland, and entered service turing motel-style floor-to-ceilingher 84 staterooms. Her sternwheel is for a return trip to St Louis July 26. in 2021. It has five decks, four with glass windows, sliding glass doordriven by a hs ydraulic motor and and private balconies. These boatspow ered by diesel engines. The ma- The sternwheeler is also scheduled cabins, a 175 passenger capacity in to depart St. Louis for a second trip its 91 staterooms. also have a multi-deck high glassjestic vessel is also equipped with two atrium. A feature of this class is aZ-Drive units that can rotate 360 de- to Pittsburgh Aug. 9 with a return trip boarding in Pittsburgh Aug bow that swings up to allow a gang- grees and allows for a rapid change Aesthetically, ACL has abandoned way to be extended to shore. in direction and assists with docking. 23. Charles Winslow the traditional grace and grandeur INDEX MCHS football skills contest A6 Thunder on the river 2024 B3 Monroe County projects funded A2 Energy Express at PCPL A6 Woodseld council B4 Lewisville Carnival A2 Monroe Co. Farm scholarships A7 OVS racing results B5 Election integrity A4 Poll Worker Recruitment Day A8 Area kart tracks B5-B6 Letter to the editor A5 Frontier BOE A9 @ The Bullring B7-B8 Matamoras council A5 RECIPES: No-mayo salads B1 Event calendar B9
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