During my college days, I spent the academic year working at The Daily Athenaeum and my summers working at The Intelligencer and News-Register in Wheeling. My formal education as a journalist was happening in Morgantown, but my real-world education as a newspaper person was happening in a ...
I鈥檝e stood on the banks of the Ohio River at sunrise, watching the water move steadily past. In moments like that it is easy to believe our rivers will always be there for us, unchanged. But working with communities across West Virginia has shown me a different reality. Our water shapes our ...
Spring in West Virginia is truly 鈥渁lmost heaven.鈥� Life comes back to our forests, wildflowers scatter across the mountains, and spring rains send cold water rushing through our mountain streams and rivers. Unfortunately, many West Virginians don鈥檛 have reliable access to that clean, ...
If you鈥檙e a garden variety serial killer, you may have planned for a lot of contingencies when designing your murder basement. I鈥檓 not sure Andrew from Daisy Pearce鈥檚 鈥淒ark is When the Devil Comes鈥� could鈥檝e conceived the unique challenges posed by his latest victim. Hazel is ...
I know so many of you ask me that I do get excited often, and yes, I do especially when I see that all my groups that I belong to succeed, such as the PHS Foundation. The foundation recently gave grant awards to teacher for 2026! I feel honored that we were able again this year to provide ...
October 27, 2019, on the soccer field in our adult league. Early in the second half, I ran up on a slow-moving ball, planted my left foot, kicked it with my right and suddenly my left knee failed. I was on my back. The trainer checked my knee. 鈥淵ou鈥檙e done for the day. Sit down. Ice it鈥� ...
