For many years, the story of C8 or PFOA contamination in the Mid-Ohio Valley was framed as nothing more than a 鈥渟care.鈥� Journalists who covered it were accused of using inflammatory and irresponsible language to frighten people. Calling it a 鈥渟care鈥� became a way to dismiss the message ...
On Sunday, we will celebrate a day that is important to all of us. No matter where we are, regardless of what part of the world we are in, we have a common celebration to honor our mother, whether we are young or old and if our mother is here on Earth or if she has gone to heaven. The first ...
What a shame that the City (and the County) didn鈥檛 devise a plan for residents in the outskirts of Parkersburg to continue to recycle. Instead, we hear of the abrupt closing of that very nice recycling center (near the Memorial Bridge) on May 1, 2026. As I think about how my husband and ...
Sunday night in Washington, D.C., Shale Crescent USA President Nathan Lord, my wife Lynnda and I had dinner with friends we met on our Turkish road trip in February. Kaan, the project manager, brought his CEO on the trip. Kaan and I have visited weekly via Zoom. He taught Lynnda how to use ...
Ascend West Virginia continues to look for more ways to recruit new Mountain State residents, even as the program has already attracted 1,412 new residents since its founding in 2021. Now, it hopes to make the state more attractive to military veterans by launching Ascend Heroes. For ...
Robert Schornstheimer climbed into the pilot seat of a Boeing 737 on April 28, 1988, unaware that his routine flight between the Hilo International Airport in Hawaii and Honolulu would end up being the number one news story in the world by the end of the day. The Marietta native and 1963 ...
