For The Times Leader
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Ohio County Library Treasurer Greg Marquart speaks before the Ohio County Board of Education, asking them to revisit the funding issue next year.
WHEELING In a tightly contested 3-2 vote, the Ohio County Board of Education voted to lessen payments to the county library by a third.
At Monday evening’s board meeting, the board voted to reduce the funding provided to the Ohio County Public Library from three cents per $100 of assessed county property value, as has been the standard previously. David Croft, Molly Aderholt and Christine Carder voted in favor of reducing the funding to two cents per $100. Grace Nolte and Pete Chacalos voted against the measure.
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Sultana Disaster To Be Remembered At Next LWB Program
Apr 23, 2021
WHEELING The Ohio County Public Library’s Next Lunch With Books live stream program will feature The Sultana Disaster 156 Years Later.
The program will take place virtually at noon on Tuesday, April 27.
The Sultana, a Civil War-era side-wheel steamboat, exploded and burned on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865. Acknowledged by Congressional Resolution as the greatest maritime disaster in United States history, nearly 1,200 of the more than 2,200 passengers and crew were killed in the explosion and fire which sank the Sultana near Marion, Arkansas, across the river from Memphis, Tennessee.
Designed to carry only 376 passengers plus crew, investigations revealed a litany of corrupt practices, including kickbacks and bribes paid to high-ranking Union officers, caused the overcrowding of the boat. The disaster has been overlooked in history since it was overshadowed by the assassination of President Abrah
NORA EDINGER For the Sunday News-Register
WHEELING The day will come when it is possible to go to school or to the grocery store without a mask, which begs an interesting question. What will happen to all these colorful scraps of fabric and elastic when COVID is contained?
“Some people are going to be so excited to not wear a mask, they’re going to want to burn it,” joked Kara Yenkevich, curator for the Museums of Oglebay Institute. “You’ve got to have celebration like the memes of people turning them into hamster hammocks.”
But, if history tells us anything, she said it’s equally possible that some masks will make their way into museum archives. This could be as physical artifacts of the COVID-19 pandemic like those already being collected by institutions such as the Smithsonian. Or, it might be in the form of art.
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