Ever notice how ceremonial signings of high school athletes to college sports programs tend to feature lots of signage designed to promote the college, rather than the athlete who did all the work to earn the honor? (But at least the colleges and universities aren鈥檛 adding to the expense of ...
With the primaries now behind us, I can鈥檛 say I鈥檓 entirely surprised by the outcomes. If West Virginia has taught us anything about politics in the last decade or more, it鈥檚 that culture war and social issues are exceedingly potent, even in the shadow of actual problems in dire need of ...
With all the schools that soon will be closing for summer, families are looking forward to vacation time. For many, vacation means being off work, and even if they can鈥檛 go anywhere, staying around the house and catching up on things that they couldn鈥檛 do while they were working. Others ...
December 1967, our family was watching TV when the phone rang. It was Uncle Joe, Dad鈥檚 older brother. Mom handed Dad the phone. Dad鈥檚 eyes got wet. Looking down, in a whisper he announced, 鈥淎ustin (our cousin, Dad鈥檚 nephew) was killed in Vietnam.鈥� I was in high school; death was no ...
Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners! We were a little on the dry side but that has all changed this week. Continual downpours since Sunday have brought several inches of rain and even flooding in areas around the valley. The forecast for the next few days is dry and sunny so we can ...
I have always been intrigued by the sight of a train engine pulling a long string of freight cars bound for one of the many industrial customers in our area. There was a time when the trains traveling along Ohio 7, or up through Vienna and through Williamstown would be trailed by a caboose, ...
