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Staff writer Warren Scott RAZING Crews with Charlie Isinghood Excavating of Wellsburg razed two structures at 3027 and 3029 Pleasant Avenue, near the north end of Wellsburg. The Brooke County Commission purchased the properties last year in hopes of establishing a new ambulance station there. WELLSBURG The Brooke County Commission, Tuesday, received an update on construction of the new Ohio River bridge and agreed to hire a new inspector for dilapidated structures, illegal salvage yards and overgrown yards. Brooke County Sheriff Rich Beatty told the commission officials with the Flatiron Corp., the Broomfield, Colo. company building the span, hope on April 20 to move the bridge’s 830 foot long mainspan from the assembly yard near the Wellsburg Smith Oil, where it has been built, to its permanent site about a mile south of the city. ....