Can you hear the cannon fire and the bombs dropping all around you? Do you see the sniper hiding in the shadows of the park? Or maybe you step into your yard onto a land mine. You have to believe I am telling you of a war where guns and shells drop all around you, and death and devastation can ...

To them that be uh readin’ these words, to the best of my recollection, they be the truth. Well, I guess the truth as much as any man can be a sayin’ when tellin’ about his life, especially when young. My mom took great pride in teachin’ me to read the words put down by others. She ...

Each year we celebrate Father’s Day on the third Sunday in June. This year it was on June 21. A national day to honor fathers began in West Virginia in 1908. A mine disaster took several lives. To honor their memories, the first Father’s Day was celebrated. For 64 years, the day was not ...

Much of what we know about early civilization is from bits and pieces found in caves around the world. Location often tells us how different cultures developed, and grew with each passing millennia of population. In ancient Mesopotamia around 3400 BCE, man began by developing writing for ...

At last week’s Wetzel County Commission meeting, two organizations requested funding for their individual food pantries. The first was the Helping Hand Organization. For many years they have worked to assist those in need of help towards the end of the month. The second group making a request ...

At the end of May 2012, my career as an instrumentation came to an end at the former PPG plant. If you don’t know what an instrumentation does, INTERNET DEFINITION: An Industrial Instrumentation Technician is responsible for the installation, maintenance, calibration, and repair of measuring ...

It was at this time in late May 2006, that I officially began my time writing for the paper. I had written stories before in my position with Local 45 and for my employer for 38 years, PPG. Those stories were without my name attached. Mostly public notices or stories of individuals who worked ...

Growing up it is likely each of us were told at the supper table, eat your food, don’t play with it. Eat. I don’t care if you don’t like Brussel sprouts, they are good for you, eat. Your father worked hard to make money to feed you kids, Now eat. As for myself and my siblings, the ...

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 ...

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 ...