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 ...

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 ...

Dear Friends and Neighbors , West Virginia has long prided itself on its deep agricultural roots, yet our current approach to funding agriculture tells a different story—one of missed opportunities and underinvestment. Today, many of our agricultural programs are operating without the ...

Valley high school girls traveled down to Parkersburg on Tuesday, December 23, to battle the Knights of Parkersburg Christian in the Mary “O” Crusaderette basketball classic and came away with a 54-49 victory. The Lumberjills soundly defeated the Knights less than a week earlier in Pine ...

I am almost 80 years old and have lived through my share of "shutdowns." I have done an unscientific poll of around 30 friends and none of us has experienced anything negative during these "shutdown" periods. Moreover none of us knows anyone who has experienced anything negative. That leads ...

Squeaky Wheel Gets The Grease Recently the wife and I took a ride out our ridge to check out some road work that had been completed. The road I am talking about starts from Doolin Run Road and marked C.R. 1/2, 1 slash over 2. And ends at Rt. 89 near Proctor with a road sign marked C.R. 1/2 ...

I would like to thank all the bands that played at our Paden City music in the Park. We appreciate each and everyone of you. I hope everyone enjoyed the music. I also want to thank everyone that came out to support our Park and the bands. I appreciate each and everyone of you to. The music ...

Below is a Rebuttal to a previous opinion article published in the August 23, Wetzel Chronicle. The purpose of the delegation from Paden City that made presentations to the Wetzel County Board of Education on August 14, 2023 was to address a very specific agenda item that had eminent direct ...

The former presidentás abuse of the Constitution and the rule of law continues. The individual has been indicted on a total of ninety-one felonies in four different jurisdictions and arraigned on seventy-eight of those felonies in three of the four jurisdictions. The remaining arraignments in ...