Once again this year, the Mid-Ohio Valley Transit Authority is providing free bus rides to the Parkersburg Homecoming Festival.

System manager Joe Lockhart says Easy Rider buses will be leaving from Park Shopping Center and the south side K-Mart parking lot during the afternoon and evening hours.

"We've hauled four to five thousand people during past homecomings, Lockhart says. "We have no reason to believe it won't be the same this year."

Those rides run Friday night until 11:00...from 1:00 P.M. Saturday afternoon to midnight...and from 2-11:00 P.M. Sunday.