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Historic Parkersburg house damaged in fire

The historic Tracewell House caught on fire early Christmas Eve morning. Local volunteer fire departments responded to the ...
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Historic Tracewell House catches fire in Parkersburg

The call came in around 2 a.m., prompting response from three volunteer fire departments. Firefighters initially battled the ...
Parkersburg News and Sentinel

Historic Parkersburg homes open doors for annual Christmas tour

Photo by Brett Dunlap Lynn and John Nicholson talk with guests inside their home on Sunday. Their home, known as the Leach-Nicholson House at 1214 Ann St., was one of the historic homes featured in ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

Parkersburg development could add 88 houses - and a golf course

PARKERSBURG -- A casual chat at a University of Northern Iowa basketball game in February 2004 resulted in a housing development and golf course that is about the third the size of town.
KCCI Des Moines

Parkersburg residents remember devastating tornado 10 years later

Friday marks 10 years since Iowa's second deadliest tornado tore through Parkersburg.The EF5 tornado tore through Butler County May 25, 2008, killing nine people and injuring 70 others.Around 280 ...
Des Moines Register

10 years after the catastrophic tornado, Parkersburg has not only rebuilt, it's growing

Ten years after the second-deadliest tornado in recorded Iowa history ripped through their town, people in Parkersburg are proud. “Recovery to us was that we were bigger and better and more able to ...
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Fire on Lynn Street leaves house damaged

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - One house was left damaged after a fire broke out in the left side of the duplex. According to ...