For some time now we have dealt with issues concerning the county schools. Finger pointing, accusations, harsh words spoken about neighboring schools and their abilities to teach and protect students. All of this wrapped inside the strong feelings from communities. Each and every school has ...
Recently Mary and I were invited to breakfast with our good friends, Connie and Earl Yost. Joining us that morning was their daughter, Toni Peck. Toni lives in Florida where she has raised two children while operating her own business as a graphic designer.
Toni’s skills are an inheritance ...
I will have to say that in all likelihood there is a small amount of green creek water pulsing through my veins. The slow moving waters of Fishing Creek and the Ohio River have always held a special place for me. I guess that is why I have always enjoyed catfishing.
Late last summer I took my ...
Last Thursday I awoke and Mary said abruptly, “Welcome to August.” As I cleared my eyes and my senses, I realized somehow two of the summer months had passed and the unofficial last month of summer was upon us.
August is a busy month for towns and communities across our country. County ...
Whenever we hear the term “Missing in Action," we understand it is referring to men and women who during the course of their military service something happened and that individual became lost in time and their fate unknown to friends and family. Their absence leaves a hole in the lives of ...
Tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 p.m. in Wetzel County’s Courthouse, an historic event will be held. In a sense the future of the county’s schools may be decided. The Honorable Judge C. Richard Wilson, will hear both sides in the case. Is Superintendent Cassie Porter’s order to temporarily ...
I spoke with friends and asked them to revisit the Good Old Days. Look back to a time or place they experienced that made a lasting memory.
The experiences of those I talked with often involved others in those good memories. Perhaps a time when families were closer and spent time together. ...
For over seven decades I have been hearing political speeches and promises. I remember watching President Dwight D. Eisenhower on our small black and white TV as far back as 1956. Did not understand his words, but my dad told me he was a famous general. I had toy plastic soldiers I played with ...
After the vote in Richmond of secession, the western delegates left the capital and returned to find its citizens beginning to divide on their loyalties. Some believed the federal government had no rights to tell states what they may do. Others believed that it was not a question of north and ...
West Virginia is about to celebrate 161 years of statehood. For those of us who attended school in the state we were taught by the education system why we became a state. I consider myself to be a bit of an amateur historian; therefore I should in all likelihood know the answer to the question. ...