ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The theme for this year’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month is “Domestic Violence Is Everyone’s Business,” a call for communities to refrain from keeping domestic violence incidents hidden in the dark.

Dozens of people marched the streets of St. Clairsville on Wednesday evening on behalf of the Tri County Help Center to bring those issues into the light.

The TCHC hosted its 28th annual Domestic Violence Awareness March, which journeyed from the Center’s headquarters to the Belmont County Courthouse, with those marching holding aloft banners and signs showing their support for domestic violence victims.

Being public about that support is important, said TCHC Executive Director Chelsea Scott.

“A lot of survivors don’t have that support,” she said. “So many survivors of

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