ebevins@newsandsentinel.com Parkersburg Municipal Building maintenance worker Westley Lockhart cleaned the handles of the doors to City Council chambers on March 13, 2020, as officials in Parkersburg and other municipalities were grappling with how to respond to the burgeoning pandemic. (File Photo) The parking lot at Grand Central Mall in Vienna was mostly empty on April 10, 2020,more than two weeks after it temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (File Photo) Parkersburg City Council met in its chambers for the first time in more than a month on June 2, 2020, and approved the final reading of an ordinance creating a $500 B&O tax exemption to assist businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. (File Photo)
Dec 21, 2020
UP: To “Operation Christmas” at Jackson Middle School, which pulled together donations of presents for 21 students whose families are in need of a helping hand this holiday. “Most of them are grandparents raising their grandkids,” said teacher Cherish George. “They’re retired and some of them have multiple grandkids that they’re raising. One, in particular, told me she couldn’t afford Christmas for these kids. So this was the only Christmas they were going to get.” The difference being made in the lives of these families is more than we may ever know. Thank you, folks.
UP: To news that West Virginia’s jobless rate dropped a little in November, though the data shows our economy is still struggling with the effects of the pandemic. State officials continue to walk a fine line between keeping our economy as healthy as possible and keeping residents safe as this virus rages. Though November’s number provides only a glimmer of hope, it appears as thoug
Arthur James Sweet WVU Medicine Camden Clark’s Emergency Department Director Brian Richardson received the first COVID-19 vaccine shot in Parkersburg by health manager Elizabeth Bennett on Tuesday morning. (Photo Provided) President of Parkersburg Cardiology Associates David Gnegy receives a vaccine shot by health manager Elizabeth Bennett on Tuesday morning. (Photo Provided) COVID-19 vaccine shot supplies. (Photo Provided) David Pickering of Mountain State Diabetes receives a vaccine shot by WVU Medicine Camden Clark’s Shelly West on Tuesday morning. (Photo Provided) Hannah Newhouse, a physician assistant, receives a vaccine shot from WVU Medicine Camden Clark’s Shelly West on Tuesday morning. (Photo Provided)
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WVU Medicine Camden Clarkâs Emergency Department Director Brian Richardson received the first COVID-19 vaccine shot in Parkersburg by health manager Elizabeth Bennett on Tuesday morning.(Photo Provided)
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccine shots in Parkersburg were given out at WVU Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center on Tuesday.
Issued out at 6 a.m., the first two to receive the shots were the hospital’s Emergency Department Director Brian Richardson and David Gnegy, President of Parkersburg Cardiology Associates.
Seeing positive cases in Wood County and the Mid-Ohio Valley on the rise in the last month. Richardson, believing that a vaccine will help prevent the spread of the virus, volunteered as one of the first to receive the vaccine shot.