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BARNESVILLE Village officials will not pursue a sewer rate increase this year and discussed options for tackling at least one large infrastructure project.
Councilman Tim McKelvey on March 29 made the announcement concerning sewer rates, saying the decision had been reached during a Water & Sewer Committee meeting held March 25. He said members would look at a possible rate increase again next year.
Village Administrator Roger Deal added, “We have enough data that it just wasn’t justifiable to impose the rate increase.”
The committee meeting had been called for during the March 15 council meeting when several critical, but expensive, infrastructure projects were discussed at length. An overhaul of the Westview Drive sewer lift station, which could cost as much as $385,000, was prioritized by Deal as the most critical of the projects discussed.
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Looking around Wheeling Hospital, its inclusion into the West Virginia University Health System is obvious.
The “Flying WV,” the logo synonymous with WVU, can be found prominently and abundantly. Yet, Wheeling Hospital CEO Douglass Harrison said that the hospital joining the WVU team is much more than a cosmetic change. It’s a change that he feels will benefit Wheeling and the Ohio Valley immediately and well into the future.
“You’re joining a world-class academic health center and health system,” Harrison said. “As a part of that, WVU medicine will provide the resources necessary to make sure Wheeling Hospital is successful. If you look around our system, every hospital that we’ve brought in, if you look from day one and look through a three-year scope, you’ve seen growth.
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Wheeling Hospital now has the WVU Medicine logos on it.
WHEELING, W.Va. Doug Harrison, the CEO of Wheeling Hospital calls the management takeover by West Virginia University Health System a great expansion in the ability to serve citizens of the Upper Ohio Valley.
Harrison was part of the official formalization of the agreement between West Virginia University Health System, Wheeling Hospital, and the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston to make the hospital a full member of the WVU network that took place Wednesday. The parties announced in September 2020 that the hospital would join the health system.
Mar 17, 2021
Mary Lou Michelli, 83, of Barnesville, OH, passed away Monday, March 15, 2021, at home surrounded by her loving family. She was born August 9, 1937, at Martins Ferry Hospital and was the only child of Custer Nelson Carter and Edna Marchbank Carter, who preceded her in death along with her Grandson, Connor Merritt, two stepsons, Tom Michelli, Jr. and Michael Michelli and a stepdaughter, Tina Michelli Miller.
Mary Lou married her husband Tom June 5, 1971, blending two families into one that they referred to as the “Brady Bunch plus two.” She is survived by her husband, two daughters, Lori (Mike) Burkhart, of Barnesville and Judy (Mark) Nagele of Georgia, son Dale (Jeri) Smith of Newbury, OH, stepdaughter Vickie (Mark) Beetham of Cadiz, OH, stepson Rodger (Marianne) Michelli of Monroe, NC, eight grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.
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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.”