By JOHN McCABE WELLSBURG Area swimmers captured four individual titles and one relay crown during Saturday’s West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission Region 1 Swim Championships at Brooke High School. Winning individual honors were Wheeling Park senior Abby Heilman in the 100 breast (1:13.33); Wheeling Park junior Levi Parker in the 200 freestyle (1:50.15); […]
By ANDREW GRIMM WELLSBURG Thanks to a winning effort, the last member of the Brooke High School swim team to hit the pool Saturday was one of its coaches. Bruins coach Kelsie Blumette made a deal with her team that if they delivered a strong performance in the Bill Brubaker OVAC Swimming Championships, she […]
WHEELING Wheeling Park’s boys swim team used victories in the 200 medley relay and the 200 freestyle relay, along with a second-place finish in the 4X100 freestyle relay, to pace the field Saturday in winning its own Winter Invitational. Parkersburg High’s boys finished a distant second, outpacing The Linsly School’s boys squad by three […]
The Marshall County Board of Education voted Tuesday to reduce its tax levy rate by 1 percent bringing it down to 85% for the fiscal year 2023-24. Board President John Miller proposed the decrease, noting he thought it was important to give back to the taxpayers, especially since they voted to approve recent levies that […]