<br><div id="article_content"> <!-- <input type=radio id="show" name="group"><label for="show">SHOW ARTICLE</label> <div class="hide_article"> -- <div id="gallery-4" class="gallery galleryid-823317 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail"><dl class="gallery-item"> <dt class="gallery-icon landscape"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2021/03/a-year-of-covid-19-in-the-mid-ohio-valley/attachment/03-14-21-covid-timeline-1/" rel="noopener"> </dt> <dd class="wp-caption-text gallery-caption" id="gallery-4-823318"> 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) </dd></dl><dl class="gallery-item"> <dt class="gallery-icon landscape"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2021/03/a-year-of-covid-19-in-the-mid-ohio-valley/attachment/03-14-21-covid-timeline-2/" rel="noopener"> </dt> <dd class="wp-caption-text gallery-caption" id="gallery-4-823319"> 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) </dd></dl><dl class="gallery-item"> <dt class="gallery-icon landscape"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2021/03/a-year-of-covid-19-in-the-mid-ohio-valley/attachment/03-14-21-covid-timeline-3/" rel="noopener"> </dt> <dd class="wp-caption-text gallery-caption" id="gallery-4-823320"> 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) </dd></dl><br style="clear: both"/><dl class="gallery-item"> <dt class="gallery-icon landscape"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2021/03/a-year-of-covid-19-in-the-mid-ohio-valley/attachment/03-14-21-covid-timeline-4/" rel="noopener"> </dt> <dd class="wp-caption-text gallery-caption" id="gallery-4-823321"> Mark McDonald met his daughter, third-grader Natilye McDonald, across from Neale School in Vienna at the end of the first day of school for Wood County on Sept. 8, 2020. (File Photo) </dd></dl><dl class="gallery-item"> <dt class="gallery-icon landscape"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2021/03/a-year-of-covid-19-in-the-mid-ohio-valley/attachment/03-14-21-covid-timeline-5/" rel="noopener"> </dt> <dd class="wp-caption-text gallery-caption" id="gallery-4-823322"> Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine stepped onto the tarmac of the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport in Wood County to speak with Southeast Ohio residents about the coronavirus on Oct. 16, 2020. (File Photo) </dd></dl><dl class="gallery-item"> <dt class="gallery-icon landscape"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2021/03/a-year-of-covid-19-in-the-mid-ohio-valley/attachment/03-14-21-covid-timeline-6/" rel="noopener"> </dt> <dd class="wp-caption-text gallery-caption" id="gallery-4-823323"> St. Marys tight end Jayson Clayton was tackled by a pair of Pendleton County defenders in a Nov. 28, 2020, Class A playoff game in Pleasants County that turned out to be the season finale. St. Marys was crowned the state...</dd></dl></div></div></div> <style> .wrapper { text-align: center; } </style> <div class="wrapper"> <a class="button" href ="https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2021/03/a-year-of-covid-19-in-the-mid-ohio-valley/">Read more <span>➤</span></a> </div>
