Tonight in Morgantown, Lynnda and I had dinner with Dr. T, an old dear friend and mentor. We are here to see our granddaughter run in a college track meet tomorrow. She goes to college in Pennsylvania. Dr. T and I communicate periodically by phone. We have not connected in person and had a meal ...
I have always had a fascination with our nation’s history. Especially when it involves the stories of individuals that helped to build our great country. The American history books are filled with stories of our early leader’s struggles to build a new country with rights for its ...
Paden City high school, once the hub of the community, closed its doors at the direction of the Wetzel County BOE in 2025, leaving the legacy of the once thriving building in limbo. However, the PCDA acquired the facility from the board for a mere $10 and immediately began the transformation ...
Last weekend, a late killing frost set upon the land around our home. We have had a couple of frosty mornings, and the light frost seems to do very little damage to the plants around the yard. That all came to an end as the outside temperatures dipped below 30 degrees at night. I wondered how ...
October 27, 2019, on the soccer field in our adult league. Early in the second half, I ran up on a slow-moving ball, planted my left foot, kicked it with my right and suddenly my left knee failed. I was on my back. The trainer checked my knee. “You’re done for the day. Sit down. Ice it” ...
Dear Editor, The cell phone, of all devices man has invented, has the potential of not only doing good things, but it also has the potential like many inventions to go for the betterment of mankind or just the opposite. So, as always I feel it’s best to lay the facts out and let you pick ...
On the outskirts of Williamsburg, Virginia near the town of Croaker, are the remains of forty-two large sculptures of past presidents. The story of the presidents’ busts begins in March of 2004. A man named Everette H. “Haley” Newman III, an attraction entrepreneur, came up with the idea ...
Dear Editor, It's just a thought, but what if.. When a government allocates billions to warfare, it makes a quiet but powerful statement about priorities. Every dollar spent on missiles, drones, and combat deployment is a dollar not spent on housing the homeless, feeding the hungry, or ...
Dear Editor, I read Chuck Clegg’s April 15 column “A Question of Freedom.” He stated many people lost medical coverage due to higher costs and made it sound like the government of today is taking away healthcare. This is misleading. There were no cuts to Obamacare benefits. What ended ...
If you’ve ever traveled on Route 2 through New Martinsville, West Virginia, you’ve likely experienced the headache of being stuck behind a train at the CSX railroad crossing. The intersection of Rt 2 and the CSX tracks is notorious for causing delays, often backing up traffic for up to an ...
