The previous Civil Struggle hospital on Avery Road in Parkersburg has been bought by Wooden County Financial Growth who plans to renovate it and use it as their workplace. (Photograph by Michelle Dillon)

PARKERSBURG — A constructing that has stood for greater than 180 years can be renovated and develop into the brand new dwelling of two space businesses.

Wooden County Financial Growth introduced in a Fb submit Tuesday that it bought the previous Civil Struggle hospital on Avery Road.

In keeping with WCED Government Director Lindsey Piersol, WCED bought the constructing in June for $111,000 with federal earmark funds it acquired for 2022/2023. In keeping with Wooden County Assessor information they bought it from 4Vision LLC.

She stated they initially acquired the funds for industrial redevelopment on Depot Road.

“The value tag there simply wasn’t possible,” Piersol stated.

The within of the previous Civil Struggle hospital on Avery Road in Parkersburg is pictured. Wooden County Financial Growth bought the constructing in June and plans to renovate and find their places of work in it. (Photograph Supplied)

The previous Civil Struggle hospital on Avery Road in Parkersburg was bought by Wooden County Financial Growth in June with plans to renovate and find their places of work in it. (Photograph Supplied)

So as a substitute they requested Congress if they may change using the funds for the redevelopment of Downtown Parkersburg and Congress permitted it, she stated.

Piersol stated WCED picked the constructing due to its historic significance and since it’s situated on a primary downtown thoroughfare.

In keeping with the Better Parkersburg Conference and Guests Bureau’s Historic Information to Wooden County, the constructing, also referred to as the Henry Logan Home, is situated at 402 Avery St. and is a two-story Federal model brick dwelling in-built 1842.

The information stated the constructing was bought from Henry Logan after which operated as considered one of 5 United States Military hospitals from 1863-1865. It stated that the constructing is the one one of many 5 hospitals nonetheless standing.

Pictured is a staircase inside the previous Civil Struggle hospital on Avery Road in Parkersburg. Wooden County Financial Growth bought the constructing in June and plans to renovate and find their places of work in it. (Photograph Supplied)

In keeping with the information, the constructing was a civilian hospital within the Eighteen Nineties and an addition was added in 1986 on the south facet of the constructing.

The signal from when the property was a watch clinic can nonetheless be seen in entrance of the constructing.

In keeping with Piersol, WCED plans to renovate the constructing.

“The surface … it is going to be redone, new roof, new home windows, new door, repainted,” she stated, however the exterior may have the identical look.

She additionally stated that the within can be renovated and WCED and Downtown PKB will transfer into the constructing and use it for his or her places of work.

In keeping with its web site, Downtown PKB is a nonprofit that works to enhance downtown Parkersburg to higher assist current business institutions, foster funding and entrepreneurial actions, create downtown dwelling alternatives and promote tourism.

Piersol stated there are nonetheless a number of steps that need to be taken earlier than renovations can begin because of the funds for the constructing coming from the U.S. Division of Housing and City Growth. The steps embrace conducting a part I environmental research and dealing with the State Historic Preservation Workplace. She stated in addition they have to carry an open bid course of for the renovation work.

“I might hope by this time subsequent 12 months we’d be within the constructing or near being within the constructing,” Piersol stated.

The response from the group has been constructive, in accordance with Piersol.

“Individuals appear very excited {that a} constructing is being renovated as a substitute of torn down,” she stated.

In keeping with Piersol, WCED is happy about renovating the constructing and so they plan to share updates on their social media pages. She stated they need to be as open as they will about the entire course of to allow them to encourage extra historic preservation in Parkersburg.

“We’re excited to have a house there,” Piersol stated in regards to the constructing.

Michelle Dillon might be reached at mdillon@newsandsentinel.com

BERLIN (AP) — Spain and England will meet within the European Championship last on Sunday, with a lot of the give attention to a teenage wonderkid and whether or not one of many world’s most underachieving groups can finish its decades-long await a title.

The match is scheduled to start out at 9 p.m. native time (1900 GMT) in Berlin and is anticipated to be attended by Prince William, Spain’s King Felipe, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Keir Starmer, Britain’s new prime minister.

Spain is bidding to win the Euros for a report fourth time, breaking a tie with Germany/West Germany, and for the primary time since 2012. The staff’s new famous person is winger Lamine Yamal, a prodigy who turned 17 on Saturday.

England, who lays declare to be the birthplace of soccer, hasn’t gained a significant title because the 1966 World Cup and that was on house soil. That is the staff’s second straight European Championship last, having misplaced in a penalty shootout within the last to Italy three years in the past.

The groups have taken totally different paths to the ultimate, which can happen at Berlin’s Olympiastadion — the 71,000-seat venue constructed for the 1936 Olympic Video games and which hosted the 2006 World Cup last that featured Zinedine Zidane’s notorious headbutt.

Spain has gained all six of its matches and is extensively considered the perfect staff at Euro 2024, having seen off Germany and France within the knockout stage. England was unimpressive within the group stage and has proven resilience in coming from behind in all three of its knockout-stage video games.

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BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — At 6:02 pm Saturday, to the strains of “God Bless the usA.,” former President Donald Trump took the stage at fairgrounds in Butler, Pennsylvania, waving on the cheering crowd and settling into his common rally speech underneath a scorching midsummer solar.

Just a few brief minutes later, Trump pointed to a projection of a chart that confirmed a spike in unlawful border crossings underneath the person he’s working towards, President Joe Biden. “That chart’s a few months previous,” Trump instructed the group. “And if you wish to see one thing actually unhappy —”

That’s when the pictures rang out, at the least 5. Trump clutched his ear as dark-suited Secret Service brokers dashed towards him. He dropped to the bottom because the brokers yelled, “Get down!” The hundreds of rallygoers packed into the sector in entrance of him moved as one, dropping down as silence unfold throughout the grass, punctuated solely by an occasional scream.

Moments later, Trump stood because the Secret Service brokers crowded round him, protecting his physique with their very own. They tried to usher the previous president offstage to his left as blood trickled from his ear. “Wait, wait, wait,” Trump mentioned. He pumped his fist as the group cheered, and appeared to mouth the phrase “struggle” earlier than brokers hustled him down the steps and to a ready black SUV. Trump pumped his fist another time earlier than getting inside.

The native district legal professional mentioned the shooter and one rallygoer have been useless. The FBI early Sunday recognized the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.

In a press release issued shortly after the assault, which officers say was an obvious assassination try, Trump’s marketing campaign mentioned he was “effective.”

There have been no hints of the horror to come back as rallygoers assembled exterior the safe Secret Service perimeter earlier that afternoon. Butler is a metropolis of 13,000 situated 33 miles north of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania, firmly in Trump nation. It’s the kind of rural Rust Belt space that helped make Trump president in 2016 and nearly stored him in workplace in 2020 — Trump gained Butler County by 32 share factors.

The inexperienced grass of the sector was slowly coated by a sea of pink Make America Nice Once more hats because the temperature climbed to 90 levels Fahrenheit. Native politicians sometimes spoke as rallygoers patiently waited hours, sometimes breaking into chants of “Trump! Trump! Trump!” At one level, an enormous American flag hanging above the stage grew to become tangled, prompting chants of “repair the flag!” till it was appropriately unfurled.

Exterior the perimeter, there have been stands promoting meals, drinks and Trump paraphernalia, as is widespread on the rallies. Behind the stage, separated from the sector by waist-high steel obstacles, one other area stretched out, dotted with distant buildings. The gang perked up when Trump’s favourite playlist started, kicking off with The Village Folks’s “YMCA.” Then Trump walked out towards the stage, sporting his acquainted pink hat, a black swimsuit, white shirt unbuttoned on the neck and no tie.

He smiled and pointed on the crowd as they cheered him, ready for the Lee Greenwood track to conclude earlier than beginning his remarks. “This can be a huge crowd,” Trump mentioned. “This can be a huge, huge stunning crowd.”

After name-checking David McCormick, the Republican working towards Pennsylvania’s Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, and promising to convey him on stage later within the rally, Trump turned to one among his favourite themes. “We now have thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of individuals in our nation who shouldn’t be right here,” he mentioned. “Harmful folks.”

Then he directed the viewers to the projected chart of border crossings.

After the pictures rang out and Trump was hustled offstage, brokers in black uniforms carrying rifles, the company’s Counter-Assault crew, flooded the stage. The gang stayed down except for one clutch of individuals standing close to the left fringe of the perimeter, close to the sounds of gunfire.

Rico Elmore, vice chairman of the Beaver County Republican Occasion, was sitting in a piece for particular company, going through Trump, when he heard what gave the impression of firecrackers. “So, everybody hesitated — and it was like, no, these are precise pictures,” he mentioned in an interview. “So I yelled, ‘Get down!’”

Elmore heard somebody from his left calling for a medic. Whereas Elmore isn’t a medic, he is aware of first assist and CPR from his time within the army. He jumped a barricade, however when he reached the individual, Elmore noticed he had been shot within the head. Elmore mentioned he held the sufferer’s head, nevertheless it was too late.

“I imply, it was a horror,” Elmore mentioned.

The sufferer has not been recognized.

At the same time as Trump was pushed off, rallygoers stayed low. Some had heard the bullets ricocheting off the grandstand, severing a hydraulic line connecting to the audio system, which started to topple. Others rapidly known as household or regarded on their telephones to seek out out what had occurred to the previous president.

“Is he all proper?” folks started to ask. “Is he OK?”

Ultimately, folks started to trickle out. A small group of a few half-dozen stopped on the fenced space holding the media. “It’s all of your fault!” they yelled.

Police after which the Secret Service ushered everybody out. An hour after the taking pictures the huge area was declared against the law scene, suffering from empty plastic water bottles and soggy cardboard containers that when held cheese fries.

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Related Press author Nicholas Riccardi in Denver and Leah Askarinam in Washington contributed to this report.

LONDON (AP) — At age 18, a decade earlier than Barbora Krejcikova gained Wimbledon on Saturday, she was accomplished with junior tennis and couldn’t resolve whether or not to pursue an expert tennis profession or transfer on, go to high school and discover a totally different path.

So Krejcikova wrote a letter to certainly one of her idols, 1998 Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna, and dropped it off at her residence of their native Czech Republic. Not solely did Novotna inform Krejcikova she had expertise and will keep on with the game, however she additionally turned a mentor till dying of most cancers in 2017.

“Earlier than she handed away,” Krejcikova mentioned, “she informed me to go and win a Slam.”

How about two? Krejcikova was an unseeded, shocking winner on the French Open three years in the past and added to her trophy case with a 6-2, 2-6, 6-4 victory over Jasmine Paolini within the closing on the All England Membership. Shortly after Saturday’s match ended, Krejcikova went and checked out her just-printed identify on the checklist of Wimbledon champions posted in a Centre Court docket hallway — and noticed Novotna’s there, too.

“The one factor that was going by way of my head,” Krejcikova mentioned of that second, “was that I miss Jana loads. It was simply very, very emotional. … I believe she could be proud.”

Even after holding on to win on her third match level, Krejcikova insisted that no person — not her buddies, not her household, not even herself — would imagine what she’s completed. It was comparatively unlikely, in any case, on condition that she handled a again harm and sickness this season and her document in 2024 was simply 7-9 when she arrived on the grass-court main.

Krejcikova was the thirty first of 32 seeded ladies on the All England Membership. Then got here a three-setter within the first spherical final week, including to the doubts.

However by the tip of the fortnight, there stood the seventh-seeded Paolini, telling Krejcikova: “You play such lovely tennis.”

Krejcikova is the eighth lady to go away Wimbledon because the champion up to now eight editions of the occasion. Final yr’s champion is also from the Czech Republic: unseeded Marketa Vondrousova, who misplaced within the first spherical final week.

Paolini, the runner-up to Iga Swiatek on the French Open final month, is the primary lady since Serena Williams in 2016 to get to the finals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon in the identical season — and the primary since Venus Williams in 2002 to lose each.

“If I hold this stage,” mentioned Paolini, a 28-year-old from Italy, “I believe I can have the possibility to do nice issues.”

This match was as back-and-forth as could possibly be.

Fittingly, the final recreation took 14 factors to resolve, with Krejcikova needing to fend off a pair of break possibilities. She ultimately transformed her third match level when Paolini missed a backhand.

“I used to be simply telling myself to be courageous,” mentioned Krejcikova, who additionally owns seven Grand Slam titles in ladies’s doubles, together with two at Wimbledon, and three in combined doubles.

She was nice on the outset, taking 10 of the preliminary 11 factors and 5 of the preliminary six video games as the gang, seemingly hoping to see a extra aggressive contest, pulled loudly for Paolini, yelling “Forza!” (“Let’s go!”), the way in which she typically does, or “Calma!” (“Be calm!”).

“She was taking the ball earlier,” Paolini mentioned, “and she or he was transferring me.”

Within the early going, Paolini appeared very very similar to somebody burdened by residual fatigue from the longest ladies’s semifinal in Wimbledon historical past, her 2-hour, 51-minute win over Donna Vekic on Thursday.

However after a visit to the locker room earlier than the second set, Paolini took cost, controlling extra of the longer baseline exchanges, whereas Krejcikova’s errors mounted.

From 3-all within the closing set, Paolini faltered, double-faulting for the one time all afternoon to get damaged. Krejcikova then held at love for 5-3 and shortly was serving out the championship, regardless of how robust issues received down the stretch.

Throughout the trophy ceremony, a lot as she did following her singles triumph in Paris in 2021, Krejcikova spoke about Novotna’s affect on her tennis life — and her life, basically.

Later Saturday, at Krejcikova’s information convention, she mentioned Novotna often seems in her desires. They’ll converse with one another, she defined.

A reporter requested Krejcikova what she’d prefer to say to Novotna now that they each are Wimbledon champions.

“Nicely, I believe I’d flip it round,” Krejcikova mentioned with a smile. “I wish to hear what she would inform me.”

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