WARREN SCOTT Staff writer
Warren Scott
PREPARING FOR THE MOVE â On Friday morning crews were preparing the 830-foot-long main span of the new Ohio River bridge for its trip down the Ohio River to its future site. Officials with the West Virginia Department of Transportation and the Flatiron Corp., the contractor for the $131 million project, have made tentative plans to transport the span on four barges Monday morning and lift it onto its piers, using hydraulic jacks, early Tuesday.
WELLSBURG As crews prepare to put in place the 830-foot-long main span of a 1,800-foot link between Brilliant and an area about a mile south of Wellsburg, local leaders and others are reflecting on the future bridge’s impact on their communities.
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The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported one new COVID-19-related death in its Tuesday night update. That marked the 84th COVID-related death in the county since the pandemic began.
The department also announced six new cases, bringing that total to 4,234. The Marshall County Health Department had not updated its website with its new totals as of 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Brooke County moved Tuesday from yellow to green, the safest category on the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map, joining Ohio County as one of two green counties in the Northern Panhandle. Hancock County was yellow on Tuesday’s map, while Marshall County was gold.