After many months of handwringing, a major demolition project in downtown Barnesville has begun.The takedown of three historic buildings along N. Chestnut Stree
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Belmont County residents await their COVID-19 vaccinations Wednesday at a clinic in the Ohio Valley Mall. People wishing to be vaccinated should visit the website gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul said his staff administered shots to all residents who had been on a waiting list for COVID-19 vaccinations, and now people wanting to be inoculated should visit gettheshot.coronavirus.ohio.
His staff is again vaccinating people in the former Sears store at the Ohio Valley Mall this week, with 700 shots scheduled Wednesday, and 600 Thursday.
“This will complete our list. We’ve been registering people with our phone numbers and online. This will be the last,” he said. “We’ve called everybody on our list. … It will be the statewide system scheduled going forward.”
Jefferis joins Ohio Hills, offers evening hours at center
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Ohio Hills Health Services announced that Miles Jefferis, a board-certified family nurse practitioner, has joined the Barnesville Family Health Center. The addition of Jefferis to the OHHS team will allow the center to offer evening hours until 7 p.m., four days a week; Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
“We are thrilled to have Miles join our staff and he will allow OHHS to expand our evening hours and to be able to accept walk-in patients,” Jeff Britton, CEO, OHHS, said. “Miles is knowledgeable, enthusiastic, and a team player. He understands OHHS’s mission is to make healthcare accessible and affordable for all area residents and he will assist us to accomplish that goal.”