One of the things I like about athletics is that lessons can be learned and changes made quickly. Learning from a mistake in business and fixing it may take weeks or months. In sports we can see results in days, hours, or minutes. Tuesday evening, our high school soccer team played our longtime ...

It is the month of October, and the time of year more than any other time, we begin to hear stories and see images of ghosts. So, to stay with that theme I have a tale of mystery, love and yes perhaps even ghosts. Nearly sixty-five years ago, I was a guest of Joe McCaskey and his wife Melis ...

To the Editor: It often feels like West Virginia only gets national attention when we are on the bottom of a good list or the top of a bad one. But now something remarkable is happening in West Virginia. His name is Ace Parsi and he has won the Democratic nomination for West Virginia’s ...

It might just be me, but it’s concerning when I go to a grocery store during a school day and kids are everywhere. The thought immediately turns to, “Is there no school today”, but then I am reminded that there is this thing called Hope Scholarship which awards kids and parents who decide ...

Dear Editor, Indigenous Day, what should be a day of true mourning! When I started writing this and other letters to the editor of this paper, and the public who might read it, I base my information on the truth as a whole from finding the facts through research. That should help you and I ...

For most of the 20th century, the second Monday in October belonged to one man — Christopher Columbus. Parades, school plays with paper hats, a day off for banks. It was simple, it was settled, and it was unquestioned. That is no longer true. And like many things in America, what replaced ...

By chance last fall, a story on WTRF 7 told of Belmont County being the location for the traveling Vietnam Wall. That visit was nearly a year off. On my phone’s calendar, I noted the date and location the following October. Time passed, and I nearly forgot, that was until I reviewed my ...

We have a vent on the floor for heat and air conditioning between our kitchen and dining area. When our daughter, Dannielle, her husband and golden retriever, Arnie come to visit. Arnie won’t walk across the vent. He is afraid. Arnie is so afraid he won’t even cross the vent to get a treat. ...

Four games into our high school soccer season, no wins. We struggled to score like last year. The difference, last year we had a strong defense. This year we allowed four goals per game. Game 4 was our worst loss in memory. Game 5 was an away game with our archrival. The coaches saw bright ...

There is a number that never shows up in the inflation report, never gets mentioned at the press conference, but decides whether a family makes it to the end of the month. That number is $4.59! That’s the average for regular gasoline today along the Ohio River. $6.79 for diesel. In ...