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4 days ago
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Advocates help raise awareness in Harrison County for Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
CLARKSBURG, (WBOY) — June is Alzheimer's and brain awareness month, and here in West Virginia, more than 38,000 people aged 65 and older have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or some sort of dementia, according to the Alzheimer's Impact Movement. And as the age of people diagnosed is decreasing, general concern is increasing. Advocates of the cause are helping raise awareness of Alzheimer's and brain health by speaking with local city councils. These advocates were granted a proclamation on behalf of the Harrison County Commission in its meeting on Wednesday, the Clarksburg City Council on Thursday, and will receive one from the Bridgeport City Council on Friday. 12 News spoke with Bill O'Field, Mission Chairman of the North Central Walk to End Alzheimer's, who spoke with doctors from the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute on what some of the key signs of dementia and Alzheimer's may look like. Harrison County commissioners split on future of Sunset Ellis property 'It's normal in the aging process to maybe forget a name or forget where you put your car keys, but then you find them. And maybe later in the day, the seniors say, 'but then I remember that name when I get home. The doctor said that's good.' That's just the normal aging process taking place. But it's when you can't cook for yourself, you don't know how to do your laundry, those are the true signs of Alzheimer's,' said O'Field. O'Field also mentioned to be wary of weight loss and depression, and to maintain a healthy diet and exercise, as a healthy body can help result in a healthy mind. The Harrison County Senior Center offers an Alzheimer's support group in its boardroom at 10 a.m. on the second Thursday of each month. You can call 304-623-6795 for more information. The North Central Walk to End Alzheimer's will also be held on Oct. 5 this year at the Meadowbrook Mall with registration beginning at 1 p.m. and the ceremony beginning at 2 p.m. For more information about Alzheimer's and local resources, you can call 800-272-3900 or click here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
06-03-2025
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Harrison County Courthouse to get new elevators around end of year
CLARKSBURG, (WBOY) — After a few weeks of uncertainty, officials are now one step closer to fully operational elevators at the Harrison County Courthouse in Clarksburg. On Wednesday morning, the Harrison County Commission approved a bid from Schindler Elevator for $805,000 with the elevators set to be working at full capacity around the end of the year. Although it's been a problem on and off for years, the two main elevators went out of service a few weeks ago and caused the courthouse to rearrange its setup. Officials are also pursuing a state grant to help cover the cost of these repairs, which in total is expected to be closer to a million dollars, including also hiring an engineer, according to Commissioner David Hinkle. The grant is for $500,000 from the 2026 State Development Grant which operates through the WV Department of Arts, Culture, and History. The building qualifies for this grant due to its historical significance. 'Most of these grants again, are 50-50, so potentially we could be looking at 700,000 out of our pocket, so it's a big expenditure for the county, want to make sure that it's done right this time,' Hinkle said. 'We get 500, we have to put in 500. […] We know we have to spend at least 700,000 as it is minimum, so if it's over a million, they're only going to cover 500,000 and we have to cover the rest.' Fairmont enters settlement to acquire old box factory property During the commission meeting, Hinkle and other officials said the bids from the different elevator companies were all similar, with Schindler's saying that it would take 23 weeks to make the parts for the elevator, and 15-20 weeks to install an elevator. There are a total of three elevators at the courthouse, but one of them is a freight elevator that is working just fine and is used only to transport prisoners, according to Hinkle. The other two elevators in the main part of the building will be the ones getting their systems replaced, but the cabs will remain the same, according to Hinkle. 'We're going to go ahead and rebuild the head equipment on one elevator to try and get it back in operation,' Hinkle said. During an interview with 12 News, Hinkle said this might inspire a look into permanent restructuring of the courthouse, like changing probation from the sixth floor to the ground floor. 'Even when we replace these, it just makes more sense to put something like that on the ground floor and just not use the elevators as much and just look at a better flow through the building,' Hinkle said. Hinkle said some of the next things on the agenda are to look to move things like court magistrates and potentially family court, to the building across the courthouse where the county commission meets. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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06-02-2025
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New Harrison County Animal Control facility to be built at old Sunset Ellis Restaurant
CLARKSBURG, (WBOY) – The Harrison County Commission approved funding for a major project, made a proclamation to honor an important community member and voted to move forward with a new tax program during a meeting on Wednesday. The commission officially approved the location for the new animal control facility, which will be on Route 19, where the former Sunset Ellis Restaurant and Drive-In was located before a fire caused it to close in the fall. The budget for that project is more than $2.9 million. Several times in the past year, the Harrison County Animal Control has been at capacity and almost had to euthanize dogs because it had nowhere for them to go. Crews respond to suspicious fire on old rail bridge in Clarksburg Also during the meeting on Wednesday, the Harrison County Commission made a proclamation that Feb. 5 be recognized as Jim Jerrett Day in the county in honor of the man who helped revolutionize the emergency communication system in the region. The commission also voted to move forward with a new program, GovWell, an online portal for taxpayers of Harrison County in order to make it easier for people to apply, receive and track the whole process of permits for residential and commercial property. 'Right now the process is actually a manual process, you come in to the planning department, you file for the permit, we give you the permit on hand and then—but this is just a simpler way—for example, we've had this extreme weather these last couple of weeks if you wanted to be able to do it all online you can do that. Typically, players in the office will research things on that property, but this system will automatically pull up that stored information about that piece of property,' Grants & Planning Dept. Member Christina Murphy said. The program is set to launch in a few months, as all the geographical information system (GIS) data mapping in the county has to be imported into the system. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
