From staff reports
CHALLENGE â Participants scale the Walls of Fort Henry near the finish line of the 2019 Tough as Nails Urban Challenge. Contributed
WHEELING The 2021 Ogden Wellness Weekend, which had been set for Memorial Day weekend, May 29-30, has been canceled due to ongoing concerns over COVID-19, event organizers announced today.
The Wellness Weekend, sponsored by WVU Medicine, consists of the Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon Classic, the Tough as Nails Urban Challenge presented by t Health Plan and the Ohio Valley Trail Partners Heritage Trail Bicycle Tour.
The weekend’s events also include a 5K run and walk along with two events for children the Ogden Fun Run and the OV Parent Tiny Tot Trot.
Ziegler
WHEELING For 41 years, Heather Ziegler spent her days and more often than not, her nights reporting on the latest news and happenings in the Ohio Valley.
Today, as her column on the front of the Life section indicates, she brings to an end her full-time career as a community newspaper reporter and editor.
Ziegler will continue to write a weekly column that will appear in the Sunday News-Register, but her time mentoring young reporters and serving as the newsroom’s in-house ambassador to the public has come to its end.
“There is no other job that I’m aware of that would have allowed me to work with the caliber of people I have to this day, to meet the hundreds of people who have entrusted my words or to establish friendships in so many areas of this community,” she said.
Executive Editor Mike Myer Passes At 69
By Ed Parsons - Editor | Jan 13, 2021
J. Michael Myer, a familiar face throughout West Virginia, and executive editor of the Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, died Wednesday, January 6, at Wheeling Hospital. He was 69.
Mike spent several years in the early part of his career as Editor of the Wetzel Chronicle his hometown paper. He had a love for the weekly papers, and was quick to call with a compliment, or offer help when needed.
Not once was he ever critical, but instead he chose to offer helpful advice.
Myer was currently the president of the trustees of the West Virginia Press Association Foundation, the educational non-profit supported by the state’s newspaper industry.
Jan 8, 2021
Editor’s note: Mike Myer wrote many of the editorials seen in The Leader-Herald. He worked at sister papers of Ogden Newspapers.
WHEELING J. Michael Myer, longtime executive editor of The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register, died Wednesday at Wheeling Hospital. He was 69.
Myer served as executive editor of both publications for the past 23 years. Prior to that, he was editor of the Wheeling News-Register, a position he assumed in 1991.
His 46-year newspaper career included stints as a reporter, weekly newspaper publisher and editor and then editor and executive editor of the daily newspapers. Myer was well-known throughout West Virginia and Ohio for his insightful editorials and columns that focused on local and state issues.