KWANZAA IS a week-long celebration of African American culture, history, values and community that started Thursday and continues through the end of the year. Maulana Ron Karenga created Kwanzaa in 1996 to celebrate the history, values, family, community and culture of African Americans. The ...
MARTINS FERRY — The Festival of Lights may sound familiar to Ohio Valley residents who are accustomed to visiting Oglebay’s Winter Festival of Lights, but a far older tradition is using the phrase to describe the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. This year, Hanukkah began on Dec. 25 and will end ...
Sales rose this year during the holiday shopping season even as Americans wrestled with elevated prices for many groceries and other necessities, according to new data. Holiday sales from the beginning of November through Christmas Eve climbed 3.8%, outpacing the 3.1% increase from a year ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Times Leader presents a look back at the past year this week with Eastern Ohio’s Top 10 stories of 2024, as selected by the newspaper’s editorial staff. SWITZERLAND OF Ohio officials helped 99-year-old Georgia McGarry turn back the clock in August, when it awarded her ...
IN THE wake of a fatal collision that occurred as 2023 was winding down, much of 2024 was spent seeking justice for victim Sunni Rae Scott. Benjamin Fred Romshak, 33, of Flushing was involved in a crash with Scott on Nov. 14, 2023. Scott was traveling from her Bellaire home to her Flushing ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Times Leader presents a look back at the past year this week with Eastern Ohio’s Top 10 stories of 2024, as selected by the newspaper’s editorial staff. IN JANUARY, a Union Local High School and West Virginia University graduate made it to the top tier of his ...