Robert Barnard Sr., 66, of Hedgesville, W.Va., died at his home November 16. He graduated from Fishburne Military School in 1972 and had a football scholarship to University of Delaware,… Read More
West Virginia
During two unusual back-to-back, 15-hour days crammed with meetings with crew members of his company’s vessels, Bill Barr paused long enough to talk about his lifelong career on the river. Read More
Charles F. Fisher, 80, died at Worthington Healthcare Center at Parkersburg, W.Va., on August 13 after an arduous battle with Parkinson’s disease. Fisher enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in… Read More
Jack Fowler, 85, the long-time executive director of the Point Pleasant River Museum and Learning Center in Point Pleasant, W.Va., died August 10 at the Hospice House of Huntington, W.Va. Read More
After a year and a half of inactivity, the Ohio River ferry between Sistersville, W.Va., and Fly, Ohio, resumed operations July 2. The ferry at about Mile 138 hadn’t run… Read More
Amherst Madison has purchased two Dravo Viking towboats from ACBL and put them to use on the Ohio River system. The company bought the mv. Leonard L. Whittington and renamed… Read More
Communities in West Virginia and Ohio hope to gain approval for a new statistical port district along the Ohio River. The Mid-Ohio River Valley Port District would comprise the portion… Read More
Police are investigating after a towboat crew spotted a man’s body floating in the Ohio River near Kenova, W.Va. The body was first spotted by the crew of an unnamed… Read More
The city of Wheeling, W.Va., plans to build a commercial boat dock for sternwheel cruises along the Ohio River. The dock is to be built in the Wheeling Island main… Read More
As the “whole-of-government” response to the coronavirus evolves not just daily but hourly, the National Maritime Center in Martinsburg, W.Va., announced in a March 19 update—as this edition of The… Read More
